• Handicapped children's services : policy, practice and implementation: an analysis 

  Crocker, Cheryl Lynn (2018-02-14)

  Handicapped Children's Services is a provincial program designed to support the families of children with disabilities to maintain their children at home. Recently, the government of Alberta has shifted responsibility and ...
• Gathering: an A/R/Tographic practice for teaching in early childhood care and education 

  Clark, Vanessa Sophia (2018-01-02)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to enact and poetically story the nonlinear emergence of an a/r/tographic practice called gathering—a situated art practice of storying, doing, and making as researching and thinking—in ...
• Eighteen and up: researching disability and family quality of life in transition 

  Butler, Kierstyn (2017-12-13)

  This mixed methods study focused on how parents and primary caregivers perceive their family quality of life (FQOL) while a family member with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) transitions from adolescence ...
• Exploring children's emerging conceptions of their participation rights and responsibilities 

  Murray, Ellen Jane Anne (2017-12-06)

  The case study documented in this dissertation emerged in response to the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, and it promoted the participation rights accorded all children in the United Nations Convention ...
• Fat(s), muscle(s), movement, and physiologies in early childhood education 

  Land, Nicole (2017-11-07)

  Euro-Western early childhood education physical activity curriculum foregrounds practices of physical literacy, childhood obesity prevention, and normative health promotion. Arguing that these pedagogical frameworks delimit ...
• "I am something else. For now": Exploring youth conversations about gender online. 

  Walker, Elisabeth M. Mattie (2017-10-04)

  Although Child and Youth Care research and pedagogy is committed to diversity, as yet this field has produced very little research that specifically focuses on supporting children and youth who do not identify with ...
• Children as weapons: child protection responses to the parenting of men who batter 

  MacPherson, Colleen (2017-10-04)

  Although there is extensive research on children’s exposure to intimate partner violence and its impacts, there is very little information available with respect to how child protection workers assess the risks posed to ...
• Improving facial expression recognition in children with autism spectrum disorder: effectiveness of a computer assisted intervention 

  Murphy, Patrick N. (2017-10-04)

  Evidence suggests that computer assisted interventions (CAI) have advantages over other types of instruction when teaching children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A growing number of technology based tools for use ...
• Transitioning out of violence: intersections of motherhood and precarious immigration status 

  Taylor, Catherine (2017-08-31)

  This study explores the help-seeking processes of mothers with precarious immigration status who have experienced domestic violence while residing in a mid-size coastal city in British Columbia. Using semi-structured ...
• Redefining student success : learning from nontraditional learners 

  Campbell, Jean Mallory (2017-08-28)

  This study examines student success from the perspective of mature, female students in human service programs at one B.C. post-secondary institution. An exploratory, case study approach was employed, focussing on in depth ...
• Exploring the experiences of children with autism spectrum disorder participating in a therapeutic social group 

  Weatherhead, Kerry-Lynn (2017-08-28)

  The purpose of this research was to explore the experiences of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in a therapeutic social group. Using a social constructionist theoretical framework and drawing on disability ...
• “Tough parts, connections, interruptions, and courage”: conversations with beginning early childhood educators 

  Butcher, Anastasia (2017-08-23)

  This thesis focuses on beginning early childhood educators and their stories, contributing to an area in the literature that has not been researched extensively. Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) philosophical concepts of ...
• Transitioning from child welfare into adulthood: a meta-analysis of North American interventions 

  Healey, Priscilla (2017-06-07)

  Objective: To assess the impact of North American transition programs for youth emerging to adulthood on education, housing, relationship, identity formation, youth engagement, life skills, mental health, and financial ...
• Working with diversity: the experiences of child life specialists 

  Matthiesen, Amarens (2017-05-01)

  Canada’s increasingly diverse population requires healthcare providers to become responsive to cultural differences within the provision of healthcare services, including Child Life Specialists (CLSs), who are committed ...
• Becoming affected with artistic memoir: entanglements with arts-based education in India 

  Berry, Alexandra Michele (2017-05-01)

  Drawing loosely on feminist and post-human notions of learning as an “untamed” and “more-than-multiple” experience (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, p. 154), I play with the use of Artistic Memoir as a method to explore my affectual ...
• A beacon for information: youth narratives on school-based anxiety prevention 

  Felix, Andrea (2017-04-27)

  The newly revised 2017-2018 British Columbian high school curriculum, as a prevention education response to a growing concern around children and youths’ mental health, indicates that students will learn the signs and ...
• The development of addiction-prone personality traits and substance use behaviours in biological and adoptive families 

  Franco Cea, Nozomi (2017-04-21)

  Substance use behaviours have been viewed as the end products of a combination of influences. Numerous theories for working with substance use behaviour utilizing a multi-systemic approach have been proposed. In this ...
• Non-civilian, civilian: a Canadian youth perspective of growing up in the military lifestyle 

  Tupper, Tam Basaraba (2017-01-10)

  The title of this study, Non-Civilian/Civilian, illustrates the paradoxical positioning of children of military personnel: Though dependants are not in the military, they are not entirely separate from it either. Many ...
• Narrative evaluation of a community-based child care and education intervention: the case of Muula Center in Zomba, Malawi 

  Chibwana, Khama (2016-08-15)

  This study has evaluated outcomes of the care and educational intervention set up for children of Magalasi and the surrounding villages since 2003. Magalasi Village is located in the rural area of Zomba District in Malawi, ...
• Reading between the (on)lines: a discursive analysis of self-harming, suicidal and helper subjectivities 

  Baldock, Aubrey (2016-05-16)

  Suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth in Canada and it is estimated that anywhere between 2-47% of North American youth among community and clinical populations have engaged in self-harming behaviours. As ...

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