• Sometimes even a single feather is enough to fly: a hermeneutic journey through rites of passage in outdoor education 

  Minichiello, Miles (2018-10-02)

  Rite of passage is a term that is used widely and uncritically in the field of outdoor education. This hermeneutic research project explores how a third-generation Canadian outdoor educator explores how rites of passage ...
• An exploration of experiences of extreme abuse 

  Charles, Grant (2018-07-13)

  This study has examined in detail the experiences of an individual who was ritually abused as a young person. Two other people, who had been ritually abused, were also interviewed in order to serve as a means of triangulation ...
• Re-imagining care: thinking with feminist ethics of care 

  Thomson, Jenny (2018-07-11)

  The term care has been part of the CYC title since the University of Victoria School of Child and Youth Care (CYC) opened in the 1970’s, making care a central aspect of CYC’s public and professional identity. The purpose ...
• The effective child and youth care intervention: a phenomenological inquiry 

  Garfat, Thom (2018-06-14)

  Although the field of child and youth care has in recent years attempted to develop a framework for the child and youth care method of intervention, the effective child and youth care intervention is something about which ...
• Common worlding pedagogies: cultivating the ‘arts of awareness’ with tracking, compost, and death 

  Nelson, Narda (2018-05-04)

  This thesis foregrounds moments from an early childhood centre’s multispecies inquiry to grapple with the question of what pedagogies and practice might need to look and feel like to create the conditions for new ways of ...
• Living in the in-between as an Ismaili Muslim woman: an autoethnography 

  Gulamhusein, Shemine Alnoor (2018-04-30)

  This autoethnographic research project explores how a first-generation Canadian Ismaili Muslim, grapples with the tensions of belonging and identity while living in the in-between spaces of multiple social locations. Using ...
• Exploring the experiences of child and youth care workers in residential care through a constructive-developmental lens 

  Modlin, Heather (2018-04-19)

  Child and youth care workers in residential care provide support and intervention to young people who are experiencing difficulties in their lives. Caring for these young people can be complex and demanding and many child ...
• 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 ...

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