• Understanding Academic Prominence and Influence Through the Concept of Academic Charisma: The Voices of Canadian and Chinese Professors 

  Li, Zhe (2023-05-01)

  Academic ranks or professorial appointments are considered the primary form of formal recognition in the academic profession, and the criteria for appointment and promotion are used to make suggestions for career development ...
• Transitional Challenges, Assimilation Strategies, and Changes That Higher Education Libyan Female Students at Western Universities Inspire Upon Returning Home. 

  Ezzreg, Huneda (2023-04-19)

  This doctoral thesis employs a feminist narrative approach to shape a qualitative study that introduces and explains the journey of four Libyan women (including myself as a participant) who travelled abroad with/without ...
• Perceptions of Implementability: A Policy Instrument Theory-Guided Case Study of a New Curriculum Design 

  Rudy, Colleen (2023-04-05)

  Public education reform programs often rely on the revision or redesign of the curriculum as a key government intervention for improving instruction and levels of student curricular achievement and attainment. This educational ...
• Educational change and social and emotional learning: Understanding how secondary English teachers have engaged with BC’s core competencies framework 

  Storey, Meaghan M. O. (2023-02-23)

  Schools across Canada have increased focus on social emotional learning (SEL) to facilitate students’ development of vital intra- and interpersonal skills that contribute to their mental health, self-awareness, social and ...
• EFL teachers’ beliefs and practices about formative assessment: Case studies of Vietnamese university teachers 

  Pham, Hanh T M (2022-11-29)

  The effectiveness of formative assessment in student learning has been acknowledged and gained much attention since the series of publications of Black and Wiliam in early 2000. Since then, many educational institutions ...
• Unearthing Ecologically Unsustainable Root Metaphors in BC Education: A Transformative Inquiry Into Educator and Curricular Discourses 

  Lemon, Meredith (2022-10-31)

  This inquiry used an ecojustice education framework and the transformative inquiry methodology to better understand the cultural and linguistic roots of global socioecological crises and to distinguish where ecologically ...
• Creating a Competency Continuum: Assessing mathematical literacy in secondary education 

  MacLean, Andrew (2022-07-15)

  Following educational trends in jurisdictions around the world, in 2015 the Ministry of Education (MOE) in British Columbia (BC), Canada introduced a redesigned K-12 curriculum which moved away from content-focussed ...
• Mindfulness Matters 

  Symington, Rosemary (2022-05-31)

  Feelings of stress and anxiety have increased in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown and subsequent months of uncertainty have changed the way people interact. Social distancing, mask-wearing, and the ...
• nutsamaat uy’skwuluwun: Coast Salish pedagogy in higher education 

  Jones, Collette F. (2022-04-01)

  This study explores Coast Salish s’ulxwe:n (Elders)-in-residence and Coast Salish xwulmuxw (First Nation) Professors’ application of xwulmuxw (First Nation) pedagogy specifically from southeast Vancouver Island, Coast ...
• Ontological play: reinventing (Machinic) Arts-Based Research in the posthuman era 

  Wainwright, Richard (2022-02-23)

  In an era characterized by unprecedented ecological and technological change, Ontological Play: Reinventing (Machinic) Arts-Based Research in the Posthuman Era attempts to seed creative processes for educators, researchers, ...
• Professional Development and the Reggio Emilia Approach: The British Columbia Context 

  Jensen, Emma (2022-01-04)

  The theories and pedagogies that constitute the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education have been the focus of research and inspiring change in the field for over forty years; however, much remains unknown about ...
• Pushing privileged pillars in Canadian universities 

  Laberge, Elaine J. (2021-12-23)

  Canadian federal discrimination legislation excludes social class which leaves poverty, or “social condition” (MacKay & Kim, 2009), out of universities’ equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) mandates. By refusing to widen ...
• Dis/inquisition 

  Wilcox, John (2021-09-01)

  The relationships of readers, writers, narrative voice and locus, and the discursive practices governing these relationships locate themselves in the self-conscious subject. Prison writers, especially in the nineteenth and ...
• Surviving through uncertainties: perceptions and experiences of Chinese EAL writers in FYC courses at a Canadian university 

  Mao, Jing (2021-08-17)

  Canadian universities and colleges have experienced a rapid increase in students who speak English as an additional language (EAL). A central concern of this change involves how to support these students to navigate their ...
• Authenticating children’s interest in nature 

  Jewell, Jesse (2021-08-09)

  In this study, I investigated seven and eight-year-old children’s interest in the boreal forest in Yukon, Canada. This research attempts to provide insight on this topic by giving students autonomy over their movement in ...
• A philosophical exploration of music education and democratization: how might music education contribute to the development of a diversified democratic society? 

  Jung, Hyo Jung (2021-07-05)

  One of the aims of education is to cultivate democratic citizens in the interest of consolidating and expanding a democratic ethos in society, yet the democratic purpose and societal contribution of music education in ...
• A phenomenological study of the lived experiences of university educators as they use open educational resources 

  Symmons, Janet (2021-06-03)

  Eleven Canadian public university educators who used OERs in their teaching practices were interviewed about their lived experiences with obstacles and affordances encountered when adopting, modifying, and/or creating OERs. ...
• Canadian immigrant-descendant and immigrant faculty member reflections as they approach the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 

  Mason, Roberta Louise (2021-05-27)

  This research explored the experiences of immigrant-descendant and immigrant faculty members as they approach the work they are invited to contribute to reconciliation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to ...
• Common Worlding with(in) Early Childhood Education: (Re)situating Everyday Pedagogies 

  Yazbeck, Sherri-Lynn (2021-05-24)

  Children of the 21st century are inheriting catastrophic ecological changes resulting in biodiversity loss, ongoing acts of colonization, displacement of human and multispecies beings, and pandemics brought about by zoonoses. ...
• Determinants of Change and Technology Adoption in K-12 Schools 

  Miller, Emily (2021-05-09)

  This project focuses, from the perspective of a school administrator, on determinants of change and technology adoption in K-12 schools. The focus of this study is identifying factors that cause teachers to change and adopt ...

View more