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Understanding the Potential for Arts-Informed Inquiry in Program Evaluation
(2013-07-02)
Program evaluation is a form of systematic inquiry designed to meet the needs of those who are working on or who are responsible for a program. One challenge faced by the field of evaluation is responding to the increasing ...
Education as a Political Act: Dewey, Freire and the (International Baccalaureate) Theory of Knowledge Curriculum
(2009-08-11)
Active learning should be the ultimate aim of education. I argue that it is a three interrelated-step model of curriculum: one which promotes critical thinking, involves dialogue and ultimately indicates growth. It is a ...
All Education is Environmental Education
(2009-02-02)
The purpose of this study is to explore how secondary school students construct meanings for environmentalism. The study participants consisted of grade twelve students from a rural eastern Ontario secondary school. The ...
Academic Self-Concept, Academic Motivation, Academic Engagement, and Academic Achievement: a Mixed Methods Study of Indian Adolescents in Canada and India
(2011-09-22)
This study, employing sequential explanatory mixed methods research design, examined: 1) the academic self-concept, academic motivation, and academic achievement of Indian immigrant adolescents in Canada in comparison to ...
Understanding Identity Development and Adjustment of Young Adult Transracial Adoptees
(2011-02-01)
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the identity development and adjustment among young adult Transracial adoptees. To achieve this purpose, I conducted two separate interviews with four Transracially ...
Engaging First Nations Youth through Reciprocal Intercommunity Exchange
(2011-01-27)
This phenomenological study of a First Nations to First Nations reciprocal student
exchange elicited and explored the meanings of a reciprocal intercommunity exchange for grade
7 and 8 students in two First Nations ...
The Challenge of Using Wikis in School: The Experiences of Two Grade Six Teachers
(2012-07-05)
This study augments an expanding body of research literature examining the complex process of integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and introducing ICT-related literacy skills into English Language ...
The Progress of Discipline: An Examination of Safe Schools Policies in Ontario's Education System (1999-2011), From the Politics of Exclusion to the Conditions of Inclusion
(2012-09-25)
In 2001 the Progressive Conservative government led by Mike Harris (1995-2002) implemented an authoritative discipline regime in Ontario schools that epitomized the law and order values of contemporary neoconservative rule ...
The Alignment of Preservice Elementary School Teachers’ Beliefs concerning Mathematics and Mathematics Teaching
(2012-08-28)
Preservice teachers bring to their studies a host of beliefs concerning the nature of mathematics. These mathematical beliefs have been shown to influence teachers’ instructional practices. Research that examines the ...
The Experiences and Perceptions of Chinese English Language Learners Taking the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test: Is a Picture Worth 1000 Words?
(2012-10-02)
The public education system in Ontario, like many other education systems worldwide, is currently undergoing drastic changes effected by globalization. The globalization of education, which can be understood as “the worldwide ...