• A program evaluation of applications of Mathematics 10 in British Columbia public schools 

  McAskill, Donald Bruce (2018-02-22)

  This is an outcomes based program evaluation which used a nonequivalent control-group design to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of Applications of Mathematics 10 in British Columbia public schools. The ...
• Precalculus students' problems in understanding variables, an intervention and its effect 

  Wyeth, Margaret H. (2018-01-22)

  The results of a qualitative analysis of 170 precalculus students' interpretations of mathematical variables, constituted the foundation for a teaching intervention in a precalculus course at the University of Victoria. ...
• Exploring the affordances of the iPad for literature discussions 

  Dorion, Charlotte (2018-01-15)

  This six-week qualitative exploratory case study examined the affordances of the iPad for students and teachers when used to video record discussions about literature. The 13 Grade 6 and Grade 7 participants self-selected ...
• Strategies for reading expository prose 

  Caron, Thomas Arthur (2018-01-15)

  In the context of reading strategy research, the present study explores changes with passage difficulty in the frequencies of occurrence of responses and strategies identified in expert readers' think-aloud protocols. ...
• A rebel band of friends : understanding through women's narratives of friendship, identity and moral agency 

  Donawa, Wendy (2018-01-11)

  This narrative inquiry is grounded in friendship. It draws its data from the narratives of four longstanding women friends in the Caribbean, where I have spent my adult life. I draw on these narratives, and on my own ...
• Safety education: culture, leadership and learning in the workplace: a critical discourse analysis 

  McGrath, Michael (2018-01-10)

  A challenge of our time is that workplace fatality and injury rates have remained consistent for the past 25 years (AWCBC, 2017, Table 22). According to Association of Workers Compensation Boards of Canada statistics, since ...
• Beyond the sixties scoop: reclaiming indigenous identity, reconnection to place, and reframing understandings of being indigenous 

  Wright Cardinal, Sarah (2018-01-08)

  This study used life experience methods to gather the narratives of seven adult Indigenous transracial adoptees who have reclaimed their Indigenous identities after experiencing closed adoption during the late 1950s through ...
• Seeing queerly: exploring recently-graduated teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and experiences of supporting LGBTQ+ students 

  Deane, Colin (2018-01-08)

  This thesis explores the question “What do teachers who have recently graduated from teacher education programs know, believe, and experience about supporting LGBTQ+ students?” This research was conducted using narrative ...
• Vocabularies of citizenship: a survey of British Columbian secondary students' experiences and understandings in the field of citizenship education 

  Elbert, Jamie (2018-01-03)

  Beginning in earnest in the 1990s, research and political communities have taken a strong interest in citizenship education both in Canada and worldwide, but in the context of secondary schools this has resulted in ...
• Trajectories of legitimate peripheral participation : ethnographic case studies of learning ecology 

  Bowen, Gervase Michael Reynolds (2017-12-11)

  Current reform documents in education call for elementary and high school students to engage in “authentic” scientific practices. In the past several years a number of authors have suggested that science education research ...
• Teacher education for the 21st century: the social justice imperative 

  Fleming, Allyson (2017-12-04)

  The first two decades of the 20th century have brought us to a critical crossroad that few could have predicted when the calendar ticked over from 1999 to 2000. The strife of world wars, of intolerance, of discrimination, ...
• At-risk in middle school : definitions and understandings of support practices for students with learning disabilities in two integrated grade 6 language arts classrooms 

  Tobin, Ruthanne (2017-11-16)

  This dissertation focuses on the definitions and understandings of literacy support revealed by three teachers and two teacher assistants in their interactions with five children identified with learning disabilities in ...
• The use of dialogue journals in senior high English class 

  Lemmon, Kathryn Louise (2017-11-03)

  This study was concerned with the use of dialogue journals in senior high school as a central feature of literature studies. The teacher-researcher gathered information from a Grade 10 English course in which the students ...
• No time on their tongue : meanings of silence in multi-ethnic classrooms of older adults 

  Fenimore, Mary Ann (2017-10-27)

  Silence in the communicative process is often viewed as the background to speech patterns, or it is not viewed at all. Yet cultural and ethnic teachings concerning the importance of silence, as well as appropriate uses ...
• Spirituality, education, narraturgy : from wells of living, writing and reading 

  Scott, Daniel George (2017-10-06)

  Philosophical work is a critical piece of the re-thinking necessary for opening spirituality to a consideration by educators particularly as it pertains to education. I approach spirituality in such a way that neither ...
• How does a grade 8 science teacher learn to teach quantum mechanics?: an exploratory case study 

  Sen, Goksenin (2017-10-04)

  In 2016 the Ministry of Education in British Columbia (BC), Canada introduced the topics of quantum mechanics (QM) into the Grade 8 science curriculum. Science teachers with or without QM background are expected to learn ...
• Organizational values and employee health initiatives : influence on performance and functioning 

  Nagel, Kevin Frederick (2017-09-29)

  This study was an exploratory investigation of the perceived existence and importance of values and their influence on organizational performance. The study also included an examination of the methods used to operationalize ...
• 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 ...

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