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Professionalism Through the Eyes of Female Elementary Teachers in Ontario
(2011-04-29)
Numerous changes in education in Ontario in the past few decades have lead to much discussion regarding the professionalism of teaching in Ontario. Some theorists suggest the changes are deprofessionalizing, leading to an ...
Authenticity in Teaching: Reflecting Through Narrative Writing and Contemplative Practices
(2012-08-22)
This qualitative self-study explores my teaching practice. Three months of on-going daily critical reflections on past and present experiences related to my teaching resulted in 26 written documents illuminating memories, ...
Constructing Professional Knowledge from Teaching and Learning Experiences in a Preservice Teacher Education Course
(2009-04-25)
This study demonstrates the power of deliberate and explicit attention to teacher candidates’ prior views of teaching and learning. Focus-group and individual interviews of five individuals document their development of ...
Teaching Contingencies: Deleuze, Creativity Discourses, and Art
(2008-05-16)
This dissertation, flying between aesthetics, visual arts, and political/cultural/historical issues, traverses lines of stratification, and (de/re)territorialization to examine uncertainties in making and teaching art. In ...
Enacting Cognition: Actor Education and the Performance of Everyday Life
(2015-06-03)
This qualitative study explores inner and outer experience in the context of dramatic arts, and specifically in actor education. The author defines experience as the richness of now. It is everything that we bring to each ...
Supporting High Performance Athletic Students Balance Sport and Education: An Examination of the Teacher’s Role
(2016-01-05)
The demands placed on high performance student athletes (athletes who perform at a competitive level) continue to intensify (Conzelmann & Nagel, 2003) and finding a balance between athletic and educational responsibilities ...
The Nature of Education in an Open-Plan School: A contextualized account
The physical environment of schools has undergone a number of changes in recent years. Along with the increasing integration of digital technology in classrooms, schools today are being designed and constructed with fewer ...
A Contextual View of Support for Graduate Students’ Scholarly Teaching
(2012-09-28)
Graduate students' teaching contributes to undergraduate education throughout North America (Park, 2004), the United Kingdom (Muzaka, 2009), Australia (Kift, 2003), and New Zealand (Barrington, 2001), particularly in ...