• Developing a Model for an Experiential Grammar Teaching Resource for Hul'q'umi'num' Junior Kindergarten Teachers 

  Kell, Sarah (2019-10-01)

  This paper describes a collaborative project to develop six lessons for teaching selected grammatical patterns of Hul'q'umi'num' (Coast Salish) to Junior Kindergarten immersion students using experiential teaching methods. ...
• The impact of therapeutic riding: a mixed methods case study of families' social connectedness 

  Bouthillier, Shelby (2019-09-27)

  In 2018, the Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association (CTRA) connected with the University of Victoria to initiate a research project focusing on social connectedness. Social connectedness is the psychosocial process of ...
• 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 ...
• Application and refinement of cross-education strength training in stroke 

  Sun, Yao (2019-09-25)

  Coordinated movements are regulated by the brain, spinal cord and sensory feedback. The interaction between the spinal cord and sensory feedback also play a significant role in facilitating plasticity and functional recovery ...
• Publish or Perish: Māori, Pāsifika, and International Indigenous Scholars’ Critical Contribution to Public Debates Through the Invited NZARE Symposium, International Organisations Session, AERA 2017, San Antonio, Texas 

  Kēpa, Mere; Manu’atu, Linitā; Stephens, Cheryl; McIvor, Onowa; Kaimikaua, Charmaine; Whitinui, Paul (New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2018-07)

  The commentary centres on the preparation and collaboration of Māori, Tongan, nehiyaw, and Native Hawaiian cognoscenti for AERA 2017 (Kēpa et al. in International Organisation Sessions at American Education Research ...
• Lighting a Fire: Community-Based Delivery of a University Indigenous-Language Teacher Education Program 

  McIvor, Onowa; Rosborough, Trish; McGregor, Catherine; Marinakis, Aliki (Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education, 2018)
• Midfrontal theta and cognitive effort: real world applications in medical decision-making 

  Middleton, Jordan (2019-09-16)

  Medical choices can be life or death, and thus improving the accuracy of diagnostic decisions within a time constrained environment has a large potential for positive change. To that end, an adaptation of Dual Process ...
• 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 ...
• Healthy vending contracts: Do localized policy approaches improve the nutrition environment in publicly funded recreation and sport facilities? 

  Lane, Cassandra; Naylor, Patti-Jean; Tomlin, Dona; Kirk, Sara; Hanning, Rhona; Masse, Louise; Olstad, Dana Lee; Prowse, Rachel; Caswell, Susan; Jarvis, Sherry; Milford, Todd; Raine, Kim (Preventive Medicine Reports, 2019)

  This study explored the influence of healthy vending contracts (HVC) on the nutritional quality of vending machine products in 46 Canadian publicly funded recreation and sport facilities. A quasi-experimental comparison ...
• “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, ...
• Determining sporting success as indigenous peoples living in the Nlaka’pamux Territory: a mixed qualitative approach 

  Waldman, Brianna (2019-08-30)

  This study focused on exploring the key markers associated with how Indigenous Peoples living in the Nlaka'pamux Territory perceive success in sport. It was designed using Community- Based Participatory Research (CBPR) ...
• 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 ...
• Physiological and psychological impacts of nighttime call response in firefighters from volunteer and paid-on-call fire departments 

  Service, Thomas W. (2019-08-29)

  An oft overlooked population in research, firefighters of volunteer and paid-on-call fire departments respond to nighttime calls as a supplement to their normal working hours, making the duties taxing on the autonomic ...
• The neural correlates of exploration 

  Hassall, Cameron Dale (2019-08-28)

  Like other animals, humans explore to learn about the world, and exploit what we have learned in order to maximize reward. The trade-off between exploration and exploitation is a widely-studied topic that cuts across ...
• Using a Graphic Novel Project to Engage Indigenous Youth in Critical Literacies 

  Brown, Alexis; Begoray, Deborah (Language and Literacy, 2017)

  The purpose of this paper is to present the experiences of Indigenous youth when a critical literacies/Indigenous knowledges (IK) approach was used in a graphic novel creation project. We conducted research over a six-week ...

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