• Unearthing Ecologically Unsustainable Root Metaphors in BC Education: A Transformative Inquiry Into Educator and Curricular Discourses 

  Lemon, Meredith (2022-10-31)

  This inquiry used an ecojustice education framework and the transformative inquiry methodology to better understand the cultural and linguistic roots of global socioecological crises and to distinguish where ecologically ...
• Creating a Competency Continuum: Assessing mathematical literacy in secondary education 

  MacLean, Andrew (2022-07-15)

  Following educational trends in jurisdictions around the world, in 2015 the Ministry of Education (MOE) in British Columbia (BC), Canada introduced a redesigned K-12 curriculum which moved away from content-focussed ...
• Mindfulness Matters 

  Symington, Rosemary (2022-05-31)

  Feelings of stress and anxiety have increased in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown and subsequent months of uncertainty have changed the way people interact. Social distancing, mask-wearing, and the ...
• nutsamaat uy’skwuluwun: Coast Salish pedagogy in higher education 

  Jones, Collette F. (2022-04-01)

  This study explores Coast Salish s’ulxwe:n (Elders)-in-residence and Coast Salish xwulmuxw (First Nation) Professors’ application of xwulmuxw (First Nation) pedagogy specifically from southeast Vancouver Island, Coast ...
• Ontological play: reinventing (Machinic) Arts-Based Research in the posthuman era 

  Wainwright, Richard (2022-02-23)

  In an era characterized by unprecedented ecological and technological change, Ontological Play: Reinventing (Machinic) Arts-Based Research in the Posthuman Era attempts to seed creative processes for educators, researchers, ...
• Professional Development and the Reggio Emilia Approach: The British Columbia Context 

  Jensen, Emma (2022-01-04)

  The theories and pedagogies that constitute the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education have been the focus of research and inspiring change in the field for over forty years; however, much remains unknown about ...
• Pushing privileged pillars in Canadian universities 

  Laberge, Elaine J. (2021-12-23)

  Canadian federal discrimination legislation excludes social class which leaves poverty, or “social condition” (MacKay & Kim, 2009), out of universities’ equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) mandates. By refusing to widen ...
• Dis/inquisition 

  Wilcox, John (2021-09-01)

  The relationships of readers, writers, narrative voice and locus, and the discursive practices governing these relationships locate themselves in the self-conscious subject. Prison writers, especially in the nineteenth and ...
• Surviving through uncertainties: perceptions and experiences of Chinese EAL writers in FYC courses at a Canadian university 

  Mao, Jing (2021-08-17)

  Canadian universities and colleges have experienced a rapid increase in students who speak English as an additional language (EAL). A central concern of this change involves how to support these students to navigate their ...
• Authenticating children’s interest in nature 

  Jewell, Jesse (2021-08-09)

  In this study, I investigated seven and eight-year-old children’s interest in the boreal forest in Yukon, Canada. This research attempts to provide insight on this topic by giving students autonomy over their movement in ...
• A philosophical exploration of music education and democratization: how might music education contribute to the development of a diversified democratic society? 

  Jung, Hyo Jung (2021-07-05)

  One of the aims of education is to cultivate democratic citizens in the interest of consolidating and expanding a democratic ethos in society, yet the democratic purpose and societal contribution of music education in ...
• A phenomenological study of the lived experiences of university educators as they use open educational resources 

  Symmons, Janet (2021-06-03)

  Eleven Canadian public university educators who used OERs in their teaching practices were interviewed about their lived experiences with obstacles and affordances encountered when adopting, modifying, and/or creating OERs. ...
• Canadian immigrant-descendant and immigrant faculty member reflections as they approach the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 

  Mason, Roberta Louise (2021-05-27)

  This research explored the experiences of immigrant-descendant and immigrant faculty members as they approach the work they are invited to contribute to reconciliation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to ...
• Common Worlding with(in) Early Childhood Education: (Re)situating Everyday Pedagogies 

  Yazbeck, Sherri-Lynn (2021-05-24)

  Children of the 21st century are inheriting catastrophic ecological changes resulting in biodiversity loss, ongoing acts of colonization, displacement of human and multispecies beings, and pandemics brought about by zoonoses. ...
• Determinants of Change and Technology Adoption in K-12 Schools 

  Miller, Emily (2021-05-09)

  This project focuses, from the perspective of a school administrator, on determinants of change and technology adoption in K-12 schools. The focus of this study is identifying factors that cause teachers to change and adopt ...
• The establishment and outcomes of African early childhood development networks and conferences, 1990-2009 

  Makokoro, Patrick (2021-05-04)

  The history of early childhood education, care and development (ECD) in sub Saharan Africa (SSA) is an under-documented area of study. Seeking to understand and document this important history has led to this study, focusing ...
• Creating trans-systemic spaces in critical literacies education with Indigenous adolescents 

  Brown, Alexis (2021-05-04)

  The study of critical literacies education (CLE) (Freire, 1970; Janks, 2014) with Indigenous adolescents is significant to working towards a more culturally relevant curriculum (CRC) that supports Indigenous learners within ...
• Fractals: A Natural Model Technology Supported Learning Outside 

  Weston, Lawrence Edward (2021-05-01)

  Fractals are repeating, recursive, diminishing patterns often found in nature. Imagine a tree, starting with the trunk, held strong by its roots that expand into the soil in support of the branches, stems and twigs that ...
• Student Engagement in Synchronous Video Meetings: Exploring Changes in Instruction 

  Sakiyama, Dale (2021-05-01)

  One of the challenges educators face in teaching is maintaining student engagement in lessons, activities and assignments. In the classroom, teachers employ a variety of strategies intended to gain and maintain students’ ...
• Inquiry-based collaborative learning: Supporting a paradigm shift towards a technology-integrated shared classroom 

  Houghton, Deirdre; Soles, Gary; Vogelsang, Andrew (2021-05-01)

  This project focuses on the areas of Social Studies, Digital Media and Carpentry. The focus is what are the benefits, for both teachers and learners, of employing Cross-Curricular Inquiry on student motivation and engagement. ...

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