• Institutionalized heteronormativity: a queer look at the curriculum in British Columbia 

  Pavezka, Laura (2017-09-14)

  The primary objective of this thesis is to queerly analyze the Planning 10 curriculum of British Columbia, Canada. ‘Queer’ in this case means the destabilization of identities that are traditionally understood in terms of ...
• Educating preservice teachers to teach for an evaluative view of knowledge and critical thinking in elementary social studies 

  Ford, Carole (2017-09-08)

  This one-semester pretest-posttest case study of 3rd and 5th year female preservice teachers at the University of Victoria in British Columbia (N = 8) involved teaching for critical thinking and an evaluative view of ...
• Exploring play in early years education: beliefs and practices of pre-primary educators in Tanzania 

  Kejo, Subilaga Mwakyusa (2017-09-01)

  In this multi-case qualitative research study I explored the beliefs and practices of selected Tanzanian pre-primary educators, with regard to the role of play in early years education. The purpose was to gain insights ...
• Characterization of critical thinking indicators in problem-based learning online discussions of blended and distance undergraduate environmental science students using the community of inquiry model 

  Noble, Michael-Anne (2017-08-31)

  This mixed methods study compared distance and blended undergraduate environmental students at Royal Roads University (RRU) as they participated in online asynchronous PBL case discussion forums as part of an Ecotoxicology ...
• How educators collectively made sense of instructional leadership during situated professional development 

  Collyer, Vivian (2017-07-31)

  Public education is in the ongoing process of developing student-focused and personalized learning approaches. This transformation effort requires school staffs to shift cultures toward collaboration and continuous ...
• Biology teachers' lived experiences in place 

  Nishizawa, Tomo (2017-07-13)

  A phenomenological inquiry of five place-aware biology teachers was conducted to determine how teachers’ lived experiences in place influence their pedagogy, if at all. High school biology teachers from one public and ...
• Breaking the silence : toward a theory of women's doctoral persistence 

  Kerlin, Roberta-Anne (2017-05-24)

  In recent years educational researchers have expressed a growing concern about both increased rates of attrition from doctoral programs and the increased time required to compete the doctorate. Many researchers have ...
• An annotated script : conversations with continuing educators about the creation of continuing education programs in a university setting 

  Wikkramatileke, Rhordon Craig (2017-05-08)

  Though continuing education is often a vibrant and thriving function in modern universities, paradoxically, little is known about the content and organization of the knowledge structures that continuing educators employ ...
• Professional development for support staff : time well spent 

  Ives, Mary Elizabeth Louise (2017-04-19)

  Little has been written about opportunities for support staff to participate in professional development. Most of the related literature cites professional development for middle and upper management people. This study ...
• Turning the tide: learning to change in grassroots activism 

  Monk, David (2017-04-19)

  There is a growing movement of indignation around the world that is calling out injustice and developing creative strategies to stand up to power and change the world. These are sparks that have flared up in the Arab ...
• The stories we planted: a narrative exploration of evaluative school experience 

  Fisher, Paige (2017-03-30)

  This study combines autoethnographies of the author‘s school experience with narratives of school experience as related by adult students who were not successful in school. The study evolved into a narrative exploration ...
• “Tell me one thing:” Exploring the role of parent/educators in the homeschool environment 

  Efford, Karen E. (2017-01-11)

  Homeschooling can provide the opportunity for an inspiring educational journey facilitated by a parent/educator. Stepping away from social norms, and fostering strong relationships, influences and supports the negotiation ...
• The role of the appeal to the transcendent in scholarly discourse on the plausibility of the value-free ideal in scientific inquiry 

  Robertson, John (2016-12-23)

  This thesis shows how the appeal to the transcendent characterizes aspects of the debate amongst leading contemporary philosophers of science regarding the value-free ideal and the attendant aim of attaining objective ...
• International students’ experiences of using online resources for academic writing 

  Tian, Ke (2016-12-21)

  This qualitative descriptive case study investigates four Chinese international students’ use of online resources for academic writing in a western Canadian university. This study has direct implications for English as ...
• Resonance, ecology and imagination: a practice-based enactment of imagining as an eco-ontological process 

  Morey, Connie Michele (2016-10-06)

  By situating ecology as an ontological position, this dissertation adapts Jan Zwicky’s notion of resonance to probe imagining as a complex collaborative process involving diverse emergent variables. As a practicing artist, ...
• Honouring the journey to the eighth fire: educating to create common-unity 

  McLeod, Kristine Louise (2016-09-19)

  Honouring the Journey to the Eighth Fire: Educating to Create Common-Unity Many directions people turn to today there is dissension: bombings, riots, shootings, famine and even genocide. There is an increasing ...
• Exploring the learning outcomes of a flipped learning methodology for post-secondary information literacy students: a mixed methods approach 

  McCue, Richard (2016-08-17)

  The concept of flipped learning has received significant attention in recent years. In a flipped learning methodology, students view instructional videos and complete related assignments before class, so that face-to-face ...
• The role of trauma literature in the secondary English classroom 

  Moore, Amber (2016-08-15)

  The inclusion of critical literacy is becoming more prevalent in our curricula, however, while the value of using trauma literature in the English Language Arts classroom has been established, the explicit use of sexual ...
• Supporting children’s Chinese heritage language maintenance in the home: a case study of one Chinese Canadian immigrant family 

  Shi, Zihan (2016-06-21)

  This dissertation features a three-month qualitative descriptive case study that examined the home literacy practices employed in maintaining a heritage language by a Chinese immigrant family living in a mid-sized city in ...
• Transformation through visual art: a case study in an African village living with HIV/AIDS 

  Adnams Jones, Sally (2016-06-08)

  This research is an ethnographic case study that asks the questions “what is transformation?” and “how does art transform individuals and their communities?” The narrative describes key moments in the researcher’s journey ...

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