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Tipachimowin: students and professors share stories about their Winnipeg Education Centre experience
(2014-09-22)
This qualitative research study Tipachimowin: Students and Professors Share Stories about their Winnipeg Education Centre Experience is a study of selected Aboriginal students and professors who were involved with the ...
Dropping out of school: exploring the narratives of Aboriginal people in one Manitoba community through Lederach’s conflict transformation framework
(2013-08-21)
Why do seventy percent of Canadian Aboriginal students drop out of school? Although the literature focuses on reform to schools, school systems, and to the formal relationships that govern Aboriginal education, there is, ...
Creating collaborative spaces for musical meaning-making: redefining the music specialist/classroom teacher relationship
(2013-04-08)
This study examines what and how classroom teachers and a music specialist learn on their own, with each other, and with their students when they engage in collaborative, multimodal teaching and learning experiences. ...
Constructing Canadian citizens: a textual analysis of Canadian citizenship guides in English - 1947-2012
(2013-04-02)
The purpose of this study was to analyze Canadian Citizenship Guides as a proxy for an official policy voice of the Canadian government about what it means to be a Canadian citizen and what is expected from a Canadian ...
Aboriginal inclusion in Yukon's mining industry: training for employment
(2013-04-04)
The level of Aboriginal inclusion in Yukon's mining workforce was assessed using two training for employment program case studies, document and literature reviews and participant interviews with key Yukon individuals ...
The families first program's relationship to children's school readiness
(2014-01-09)
‘Families First’ is a home visiting program implemented across the province of Manitoba, Canada. Public health nurses complete a psychosocial assessment as part of their follow up with postpartum families. This assessment ...
Identifying First Nations students with invisible disabilities
(2017)
Countless studies have employed the term disabilities as an all-encompassing umbrella for both visible and invisible disabilities. Scholars and practitioners have relied on medical criteria and corresponding diagnostic ...
A critical discourse analysis of Manitoba’s safe schools documentation and implications for students
(2018-12-30)
Students who have been labeled as exhibiting behaviour difficulties in the school system have some of the worst academic and social outcomes of any student group. In most Canadian provinces, responses to student behaviour ...
A digital learning community: elementary school design
(2010-04-08)
The current generations of children are being taught in schools which are not relevant to their daily lived experiences. “Schools and the curricula that exist today are more suited to the needs of the industrial age than ...
Understanding conceptualizations of students with "significant intellectual disabilities": an analysis using discourse theory
(2011-03-02)
Notwithstanding the prominent focus on inclusion in the discourse of special education, students with significant intellectual disabilities in North America continue to receive a part of their education in segregated ...