• Educating for Gross National Happiness 

  Dema, Sonam (2018-08-15)

  This project was pursued to study happiness as the goal of Education by looking at Bhutan and its education philosophy of Educating for Gross National Happiness (EGNH). First, I provide context to the topic by establishing ...
• Knowledge and experience: an exploration masculine subjectivities and social justice education 

  Sandor, Nick (2018-07-27)

  This philosophical inquiry challenges the conventional perspective that ‘boys will be boys’ moving towards opportunities for social change through the lived experience of masculinities. The conservative political perspective ...
• Congruency of values : a study of the perceived writing values ... 

  Peach, Ronald Derek (2018-07-25)

  This study examines how well the qualities of good essay writing expressed in the British Columbia Ministry of Education's handbook, Using rating scales to evaluate student writing, are transmitted to teachers and students. ...
• A descriptive study of Thai EFL students' comprehension monitoring strategies when reading in English 

  Katib, Adisra (2018-07-23)

  This research describes and investigates comprehension monitoring strategies of 16 EFL Thai second and fourth year undergraduate students at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, reading an English expository ...
• Improvisation: ? motions for living texts 

  Frey, Connie Jean (2018-07-20)

  Enjoining improvisation as chrysalis for dissertation creation, I draw upon immediate responses, surprise, familiarity, and diverse knowers. Being engaged with improvisation as topic and methodology reveals my assumptions ...
• (Re) constituting the teaching self: narrative explorations of difficulty in teaching 

  Fowler, Leah Cheryl (2018-07-20)

  This dissertation identifies questions of difficulty in teaching and represents one story of an enduring poststructural reconstitution of the relational fields of self, theory, and practice. The first three sections are ...
• Consulting 3- to 6-year-old children about their reading and writing concepts and practices 

  Shook, Sandra Ellen (2018-07-18)

  As members of a literate society young children construct their own literacy (Sulzby & Teale, 1991) and participate in literacy events from birth (Baghban, 1984; Taylor, 1983; Wells, 1986). They do so through social ...
• The impact of parental death during adolescence on separation-individuation process 

  Elder, Sandra (2018-07-09)

  Whether or not major changes in family structure during adolescence have positive or negative consequences for adolescents has not been empirically investigated to any extent. The separation-individuation process is ...
• The relationship of writing instruction to grade 4 to 6 students' reflective accounts and their written products 

  Bright, Robin M. (2018-07-06)

  The research documented in this dissertation examined the language-related instructional contexts for writing in two intermediate classrooms spanning grades four to six. In addition, students' understanding of those contexts ...
• The adaptation of Chinese engineering students to academic language tasks at the University of Calgary 

  Zhu, Liping (2018-07-05)

  Adaptation to Canadian graduate studies from a Chinese background is both culturally and linguistically challenging. This study reported how the traditional and contemporary methods of instruction used in teaching English ...
• A study of the relevance of Max Weber's work to educational administration theory 

  Samier, Eugénie Angèle (2018-07-05)

  Max Weber is generally regarded as a major authority in the fields of organizational, administrative and educational administration theory, whose contributions are most often understood to be a theory of bureaucracy, with ...
• Exercise adherence in obese women: evaluation of two intervention strategies 

  Naylor, Patti-Jean (2018-07-04)

  The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of behavioural self-control and relapse prevention strategies for increasing adherence in obese women during a 12 week supervised walking programme and in a six ...
• An oral history of a field trip: a study of participants' historical imagination in "Action" and "Artifact within action" 

  Green, Vicki Ann (2018-07-03)

  This study investigated former students' historical imaginations and recollections emanating from a visit to an historic site as an extension of the curriculum in social studies in grade five a decade ago. Historical ...
• Administration and values: the career advancement of women managers in the British Columbia public service 

  Bullen, Christine (2018-06-29)

  This study consists of an investigation of the relationship between the values of the organization, the work-related values of managers, and the career advancement of female managers within the British Columbia Public ...
• Cognitive processes related to spelling development in grades 5 and 7 

  Smith, Ardys (2018-06-28)

  This study explores the relationships between cognitive processes and spelling ability. The study consists of an instrumental component which involved testing 57 normal students in grades 5 and 7 on a survey of cognitive ...
• A culture-based instructional program for teaching Thai language to foreigners 

  Potter, Kritchada (2018-06-28)

  The purpose of this study is to examine and develop an instructional program for teaching the Thai language and culture to foreigners. This program combines the teaching of the Thai language and culture together in the ...
• The role of the situation model in the reading comprehension processes of grade seven readers 

  Pereira, Lytta J. (2018-06-27)

  Within the context of reading comprehension research, the present study is an investigation into the role of prior knowledge in the form of a situation model, constructed and used strategically during on-line text processing. ...
• Text and texture of children's inquiry: grade 1 children constructing knowledge of narrative text 

  Craig, Margaret Theresa (2018-06-26)

  This dissertation focuses on Grade 1 children's inquiry of narrative text over a three-month period. The children were read to as a group by the classroom teacher and individually by Grade 7 students, a grandparent helper, ...
• Organizational culture of three high performance secondary schools in British Columbia 

  Jones, Richard Merrick (2018-06-26)

  Recent evidence suggests that strong, positive organizational cultures characterize high performance schools. Themes related to the concept of organizational culture (e.g. climate, ethos, values, underlying assumptions, ...
• Educators' perspectives on assessment: tensions, contradictions and dilemmas 

  Field, James Colin (2018-06-20)

  The purpose of this interview study was to understand the perspectives of 17 educators towards assessment of reading-language arts in the public education system in British Columbia, Canada. The study used G. H. Mead's ...

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