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Exploring the impact of a culturally restorative post-secondary education program on Aboriginal adult learners: The Urban Circle Training Centre model
(2012-09-07)
The educational attainment gap between Canada’s Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples both reflects and perpetuates a parallel disparity in socioeconomic conditions. Aboriginal peoples’ distrust of and disengagement from ...
Educational change: a case study of nine school leaders in Prairie View School Division
(2012-04-09)
It has been said that the only thing constant in life is change. Whether it is a change in the seasons, in a stage of life or in one’s thinking, change is a part of the ebb and flow of living. Educational institutions are ...
Secondary traumatic stress in Canadian school counsellors: presence and prediction
(2011-09-13)
A non-experimental survey design was used to study participant self-identified presence of secondary traumatic stress (STS) in Canadian school counsellors (N = 57) in relation to counsellors’ education and training, ...
The importance of the teacher-student relationship in contributing to adolescent EAL newcomer success in secondary school
(2015)
The purpose of this study was first to describe the impact of the relationship between adolescent newcomers in South Winnipeg secondary schools and their teachers. Additional sub-questions examined teacher valuation of ...
Social capital and the expanded core curriculum
(2011-08-30)
A model of education known as the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) (Lohmeier 2005) proposes that, for blind students, the inability to learn visually severely curtails learning opportunities. A program of instruction must ...
"Girls' books" & "boys' stuff": masculinities and multiliteracies within grade 1 classrooms in Winnipeg, Manitoba
(2011-09-09)
In Canada, there is the perception that boys are scoring consistently below girls in academic ranking, particularly in the area of literacies. Is there a bias? Is the school system promoting a certain type of 'boy'? Is ...
The politics and praxis of culturally relevant sport education: empowering urban Aboriginal youth through community sport
(2012-08-29)
Community sport organizations (CSO) are the most predominant type of nonprofit and voluntary organization in Canada (Gumulka, Barr, Lasby, & Brown-lee, 2005), and, it is vital that researchers recognize the critical, and ...
An INGO's implementation challenges of inclusive education in a developing country
(2012-08-31)
The following thesis is an implementation study of an international non-governmental organization working in the field of inclusive education in Battambang, Cambodia. More specifically the study’s intent was to examine the ...
Experiencing conceptual design in three dimensions: an evaluation of CAVE-like environments for interior design education
(2014-09-03)
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The purpose of this research is to determine the value of CAVE-like immersive environments to interior design education. The immersive environment can provide experience in and visualization of conceptual ...
A mixed method study on transitioning engineering graduate attributes into the workplace
(2014-09-05)
Canadian engineering schools are required to follow an accreditation program as outlined by Engineers Canada. This program determines the qualifications of a graduating engineer through a series of graduate attributes. ...