• "Those kids can't handle their freedom": a philosophical footnote exploring self-regulation in classroom teaching 

  Harvey, Lyndze Caroline (2020-05-07)

  There are Stories that we are told, stories that we tell, and Stories that are told through us. This text sets out to ask whether self-regulation is a tool to support the progressivist educator or something that undermines ...
• Workplace learning: how space and place inform and influence librarian learning. An institutional ethnography 

  Inget, Carla Jill (2020-05-06)

  Public libraries have frequently been referred to as a ‘third place,’ which is defined as the place between home and work where people meet to exchange ideas, learn, and have a good time (Oldenburg, 2014). New and award-winning ...
• Transdisciplinary inquiry: exploring a new approach to professional learning in education 

  Geres-Smith, Rhonda (2020-04-06)

  Traditional, transmission methods of professional development (PD) for educators have been criticized as being ineffective, failing to provide enough time, context, autonomy, active engagement, and content information to ...
• The metaphor probe: a discussion stimulus 

  Lucas, Judith V. (2020-01-09)
• Mapping a teacher candidate’s journey through inquiry and into practice 

  Bell, Dana G. (2020-01-02)

  This study examines the lived experience of teacher candidates through a professional inquiry process and the influence of that experience on their eventual teaching practice. Literature in this area typically follows ...
• Valuing linguistic diversity: grammatical features of First Nations school-aged children's spoken and written language 

  Hart Blundon, Patricia (2019-12-24)

  Students who speak local varieties (i.e., dialects) of English that differ from the codified variety promoted in school are at a disadvantage. Research illustrates that differences in sound systems, grammar, vocabulary, ...
• University assessment practices through a lens of feminist pedagogy 

  Chitnev, Veta (2019-11-21)

  Assessment is crucial for students’ learning. The theory and practice of assessment, however, has received little attention in the literature on critical feminist pedagogy, due to difficulties in ...
• Undergraduate lighting design curriculum and pedagogy in Canada 

  Carolan, Claire (2019-10-10)

  The purpose of this research is to review the past and present pedagogy and curricula of theatre lighting design in Canada; the factors, values, ideas and theories that inform it; and to recommend an updated pedagogy and ...
• Becoming a teacher of reading: preservice teachers develop their understanding of teaching reading 

  Vieira, Ana (2019-09-27)

  Preservice teachers of reading develop their beliefs and understanding of reading pedagogy in diverse ways. While they do gather some knowledge and understanding from their university preparation courses and their practicum ...
• How Muslim students endure ambient Islamophobia on campus and in the community: resistance, coping and survival strategies: Recommendations for university administrators, faculty, and staff on how to support Muslim students’ social well-being and academic success 

  Magassa, Moussa (2019-09-27)

  This study critically explores Muslim students’ experiences on campus and in the community and identifies the opportunities, barriers, and constraints in students’ academic and social relations with peers, university ...
• Unsettling exhibition pedagogies: troubling stories of the nation with Miss Chief 

  Johnson, Kay (2019-09-11)

  Museums as colonial institutions and agents in nation building have constructed, circulated and reinforced colonialist, patriarchal, heteronormative and cisnormative national narratives. Yet, these institutions can be ...
• Sacred Mandala inquiry: the lived experience of painting a Mandala as research 

  Johnston, M. Jane (2019-09-05)

  This phenomenological hermeneutic research explores the author’s lived experience of painting a Sacred Mandala over the course of 15 months while focusing on child-loss by adoption. In this dissertation, the structure, ...
• Exploring a teacher's facilitation of a collaborative story writing unit using Google Docs in a culturally and linguistically diverse high school English class 

  Wilson, Deirdre (2019-09-05)

  This dissertation shares findings from a descriptive case study that examined an experienced teacher’s facilitation of a collaborative story writing project using Google Docs in a culturally and linguistically diverse Grade ...
• “I can be there one day”: learning and leadership development in a community of self-identified women in technology 

  Hamer, Melissa (2019-09-03)

  Women’s underrepresentation in the technology industry is a relevant and timely issue. The increasing use of technology and its expansion into our daily lives demand greater technical literacy and skills. Despite its growth, ...
• Video games and the classroom 

  Burren, Jamie (2019-08-30)

  This study explores the effects on student learning of the inclusion of video games within a Language Arts secondary school classroom. Video Games are often disparaged by both parents and educators as having a significantly ...
• Recognizing and navigating the relational landscapes of self in action: How higher Ed educators construe the value and purpose of the ePortfolio process 

  Gerrity, Scott (2019-08-29)

  Instructors in higher education are being asked to introduce electronic portfolios (ePs) into their teaching without prior knowledge or experience on how to do it effectively. They struggle with conceptualizing how the eP ...
• Chinese international student perspectives of their British Columbia offshore school experiences 

  Alexander, Ian (2019-08-29)

  Over the past twenty years, high school students in China have been learning the British Columbia (BC) public curriculum in certified private offshore schools with the intention of attending post-secondary institutions ...
• Queering as a critical imagination: educators envisioning queering schools praxis through critical participatory action research 

  Cavanaugh, Lindsay (2019-07-03)

  It is well documented that hetero/cisnormativity is prevalent in schools. Queerness predominantly enters schools through anti-Queerphobia work, efforts to protect and include “at risk” gender and sexually creative youth ...
• New graduate experiences of learning ethics and equity in the UVic undergraduate engineering program 

  Fagan, John (2019-04-26)

  This study listens to the contributions of recent graduates from the University of Victoria’s Bachelor of Engineering Program, hearing their understanding of ethics and equity, and how they experienced learning this in the ...
• Teaching national values in an era of reconciliation: a critical examination of B.C.'s draft high school Social Studies curriculum, 2015-2018 

  Dubensky, Kate (2019-04-23)

  Canadian public life is currently informed by what can be broadly considered an era of reconciliation. While definitions abound, the aim of reconciliation is just relations between Canada and Indigenous nations. Efforts ...

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