• Counselling in an age of Empire 

  Kouri, Scott (2019-07-09)

  In an age of unbridled global capitalism and caustic neocolonial relations to land and life, the question of the aims and approaches of doing counselling with young people, particularly those majoritarian youth who are ...
• Risky play in early childhood education and care in Norway 

  Obee, Patricia (2019-07-09)

  Background: Risky play is defined as thrilling and challenging forms of play that have the potential for physical injury and has been linked to development and health benefits for children in the early years such as ...
• Mindful children: exploring the conceptualization of mindfulness practice in public elementary school settings 

  Gaines, Jasmine Christine (2019-06-24)

  In recent decades, the practice of mindfulness has spread from its initial Eastern philosophical and spiritual roots and has been adapted in various Western contexts of service provision in attempts to improve the physical ...
• Risky business: a narrative inquiry of male child and youth care practitioners' use of therapeutic touch 

  Bennett, Christopher (2019-04-30)

  Male child and youth care (CYC) practitioners have rarely been queried about how, or if, they use therapeutic touch (TT) with clients. A significant amount of literature suggests that TT with children and youth can have a ...
• How do child welfare supervisors approach ethical dilemmas in their practice? 

  Rooke, Susan (2019-04-29)

  Although there is extensive literature on supervision in the human services, there is limited research specific to the stories from supervisors in child welfare, in particular in Canada. This inquiry sought to understand ...
• Meaning-making and the wilderness experience: an examination using a constructive-developmental lens 

  Pollock, Curtis J. (2019-04-29)

  Wilderness Experience Programs (WEPs) take youth into wilderness settings in order to teach wilderness travel and leadership, expand personal capacity, and equip youth with coping skills in order to manage life’s ...
• Mental illness stigma: experiences of youth with a mental disorder 

  Haug, Sally-Anne (2019-02-05)

  Canadian society continues to stigmatize individuals with mental illness, despite the prevalence of mental illness in the population, decades of advocacy to combat mental illness stigma, and known negative sequelae of ...
• Mature girls, squirrelly boys, and “wily” risk; gendered risk in outdoor adventure education 

  Tilstra, Elisabeth (2019-01-02)

  This thesis critically analyzes how gender intersects with risk processes and practices in outdoor adventure education. I focus on how language, binary logic, and societal norms work together to gender risk and offer three ...
• Sometimes even a single feather is enough to fly: a hermeneutic journey through rites of passage in outdoor education 

  Minichiello, Miles (2018-10-02)

  Rite of passage is a term that is used widely and uncritically in the field of outdoor education. This hermeneutic research project explores how a third-generation Canadian outdoor educator explores how rites of passage ...
• An exploration of experiences of extreme abuse 

  Charles, Grant (2018-07-13)

  This study has examined in detail the experiences of an individual who was ritually abused as a young person. Two other people, who had been ritually abused, were also interviewed in order to serve as a means of triangulation ...
• Re-imagining care: thinking with feminist ethics of care 

  Thomson, Jenny (2018-07-11)

  The term care has been part of the CYC title since the University of Victoria School of Child and Youth Care (CYC) opened in the 1970’s, making care a central aspect of CYC’s public and professional identity. The purpose ...
• The effective child and youth care intervention: a phenomenological inquiry 

  Garfat, Thom (2018-06-14)

  Although the field of child and youth care has in recent years attempted to develop a framework for the child and youth care method of intervention, the effective child and youth care intervention is something about which ...
• Common worlding pedagogies: cultivating the ‘arts of awareness’ with tracking, compost, and death 

  Nelson, Narda (2018-05-04)

  This thesis foregrounds moments from an early childhood centre’s multispecies inquiry to grapple with the question of what pedagogies and practice might need to look and feel like to create the conditions for new ways of ...
• Living in the in-between as an Ismaili Muslim woman: an autoethnography 

  Gulamhusein, Shemine Alnoor (2018-04-30)

  This autoethnographic research project explores how a first-generation Canadian Ismaili Muslim, grapples with the tensions of belonging and identity while living in the in-between spaces of multiple social locations. Using ...
• Exploring the experiences of child and youth care workers in residential care through a constructive-developmental lens 

  Modlin, Heather (2018-04-19)

  Child and youth care workers in residential care provide support and intervention to young people who are experiencing difficulties in their lives. Caring for these young people can be complex and demanding and many child ...
• Handicapped children's services : policy, practice and implementation: an analysis 

  Crocker, Cheryl Lynn (2018-02-14)

  Handicapped Children's Services is a provincial program designed to support the families of children with disabilities to maintain their children at home. Recently, the government of Alberta has shifted responsibility and ...
• Gathering: an A/R/Tographic practice for teaching in early childhood care and education 

  Clark, Vanessa Sophia (2018-01-02)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to enact and poetically story the nonlinear emergence of an a/r/tographic practice called gathering—a situated art practice of storying, doing, and making as researching and thinking—in ...
• Eighteen and up: researching disability and family quality of life in transition 

  Butler, Kierstyn (2017-12-13)

  This mixed methods study focused on how parents and primary caregivers perceive their family quality of life (FQOL) while a family member with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) transitions from adolescence ...
• Exploring children's emerging conceptions of their participation rights and responsibilities 

  Murray, Ellen Jane Anne (2017-12-06)

  The case study documented in this dissertation emerged in response to the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, and it promoted the participation rights accorded all children in the United Nations Convention ...
• Fat(s), muscle(s), movement, and physiologies in early childhood education 

  Land, Nicole (2017-11-07)

  Euro-Western early childhood education physical activity curriculum foregrounds practices of physical literacy, childhood obesity prevention, and normative health promotion. Arguing that these pedagogical frameworks delimit ...

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