• 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 ...
• “With Every Step, We Grow Stronger”: The Cardiometabolic Benefits of an Indigenous-Led and Community-Based Healthy Lifestyle Intervention 

  Lai, Henry P.H.; Miles, Rosalin M.; Bredin, Shannon S.D.; Kaufman, Kai L.; Chua, Charlie Z.Y.; Hare, Jan; Norman, Moss E.; Rhodes, Ryan E.; Oh, Paul; Warburton, Darren E.R. (Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2019)

  Community-based and Indigenous-led health and wellness approaches have been widely advocated for Indigenous peoples. However, remarkably few Indigenous designed and led interventions exist within the field. The purpose of ...
• Enacting Indigenous Language and Cultural Reclamation across Geographies and Positionalities 

  Chew, Kari A. B.; Anthony-Stevens, Vanessa; LeClair-Diaz, Amanda; Nicholas, Sheilah E.; Sobotta, Angel; Stevens, Philip (Transmotion, 2019)

  In globalizing landscapes, Indigenous ways of knowing and being persist in their connectedness to specific geographies, even as they are transformed by migrations, both forced and voluntary, and dynamic exchanges. This ...
• Hear Our Languages, Hear Our Voices: Storywork as Theory and Praxis in Indigenous-Language Reclamation 

  McCarty, Teresa L.; Nicholas, Sheilah E.; Chew, Kari A. B.; Diaz, Natalie G.; Leonard, Wesley Y.; White, Louellyn (Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2018)

  Storywork provides an epistemic, pedagogical, and methodological lens through which to examine Indigenous language reclamation in practice. We theorize the meaning of language reclamation in diverse Indigenous communities ...
• Weaving Words: Conceptualizing Language Reclamation through a Culturally-Significant Metaphor 

  Chew, Kari A. B. (Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2019)

  When the Creator called us to our homelands to become a distinct people, Chickasaws received the gift of our language—Chikashshanompa'—with which to speak to each other, the land, the plants, the animals, and the Creator. ...
• 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 ...
• Regulating emotions in computer-supported collaborative problem-solving tasks 

  Webster, Elizabeth A. (2019-06-24)

  The ability to collaborate has been identified as an essential learning outcome for the 21st century. However, if group members lack the skills, abilities, and attitudes to work in a team, these groups may work inefficiently ...
• What is the Impact of Digital Technology on Young Students? 

  Hendry, Pina (2019-05-24)

  Abstract This project focuses on the impact of the misuse and/or overuse of digital technologies on children’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. The purpose of this report is to impart knowledge ...
• Learning at an Edge: Engaging Unique and Discerning Learners in Alternate Education Programs 

  Smith, Cara (2019-05-21)

  In Elliot W. Eisner’s (2001) article “What does it mean to say a school is doing well?” (p. 370) we are asked to imagine what we might pay attention to in schools if we didn’t rely on standardized testing to give us ...
• Literature and life through the lens of the archetypes 

  Walker, Omdrea (2019-05-18)

  The purpose of this project is to illustrate the benefits of using the archetypes to help educators enrich their use of BC’s New Curriculum and to provide resources and methods for teachers to use the archetypes in the ...

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