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Title “They Should Stand on Their Own Feet”: Mothers’ Accounts of Education, School Choice and Their Children’s Uncertain Futures in Varanasi, India

Excerpt The heavily privatized and socially stratified schooling system in Uttar Pradesh, India offers low income children limited opportunities for social mobility via education. In that context, this thesis presents the results of interviews with low-income mothers in the city of Varanasi, gathering their perspectives on the relationship between their children’s current schooling and anticipated adult […]

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Title Financial Literacy: Neoliberalism, the Consumer and the Citizen

Excerpt This thesis argues that consumer financial literacy is not a solution but a tool that mystifies and supports the very problems it could help solve: exploitation, economic crises, the spread of neoliberalism, alienation and the further disempowerment of the citizen. The characterization and implementation of financial literacy programs influence the resources and subjectivities that we […]

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Author Arthur, Christopher

Advisor Norris, Trevor

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SDGs Reduced InequalitiesResponsible Consumption and Production

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Title Why are you “Active”? – Voices of Young Muslim Women Post-9/11

Excerpt Contributing to the literature on the Muslim experience post-9/11, the purpose of this study was to engage with a group that is often talked about, but not with: Muslim youth. Using an integrative anti-racist and anti-colonial approach with an emphasis on a spiritual way of knowing, this study gives voice to young Muslim activists in […]

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Author Aslam, Jabeen

Advisor Wane, Njoki Nathani

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Title Muslim Pakistani-Canadian Women’s Experiences in Canadian Higher Education: A Case Study at One Ontario University Campus

Excerpt Seven women that identify as Muslim, Pakistani and Canadian in varying capacities participated in this qualitative research to discuss how their cultural and/or religious norms shaped their educational and career aspirations and overall decision-making. Areas of discussion included identity formation, understandings of culture and religion, familial influences on educational and career pursuits and overall experiences […]

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Author Aslam, Mariam

Advisor Dietsche, Peter

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Title Teaching Civility: How Teachers Negotiate Race, Culture and Citizenship in the Multicultural School

Excerpt In this project, I ask: How do Ontario public schools participate in the construction and perpetuation of a racial hierarchy of Canadian citizenship? I argue that the discourse of white civility produces and organizes a governable Canadian populace that serves to legitimize the nation-state. Employing a critical anti-colonial, anti-racist framework, I analyze the narratives of […]

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Author Azzam, Raneem

Advisor Razack, Sherene

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Title More Than A Curriculum: The Political Project of Radical Labour Education

Excerpt This thesis analyzes the experiences of participants of the Canadian Labour Congress and Saskatchewan Federation of Labour radical labour youth activist training program “Solidarity Works.” The theoretical work of Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire is used to analyze why radical labour education is important. The theoretical work of Michel Foucault is used, in addition to […]

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Author Bonokoski, Nicholas

Advisor Sawchuk, Peter H.

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Title Deconstructing ‘Hegemonic Feminism’: The Emergence of ‘Second Wave’ Feminism in Canada (1965-1975)

Excerpt Drawing on a collection of interviews with Canadian feminists, this thesis explores the emergence of a ‘second wave’ of feminist organizing in Canada from 1965 to 1975. Using insights from poststructural feminism and critical race theory, I deconstruct the notion of ‘hegemonic feminism’ and examine how certain women came to inhabit a position of hegemony […]

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Author Bragg, Bronwyn

Advisor Eichler, Margrit

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Title Understanding Home-school Relationships within an Indigenous Community in an Urban Public School

Excerpt This study examines relationships between Indigenous parents and their children’s non-Indigenous teachers. As many Indigenous students are taught by mostly non-Indigenous teachers, this thesis aims to provide teachers with insights or strategies on how to work in a community that is perhaps unknown to them. There are three areas of focus within this thesis: critical […]

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Author Bromfield, Mandisa

Advisor Goldstein, Tara ||Flessa, Joseph

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Title Change in Child Health and Socioeconomic Status: Examining the Moderating Role of Differential Parenting

Excerpt Inequality within the family (i.e. differential parenting) is associated with a variety of measures of child adjustment. To date there is no research examining the effects of this phenomenon on children’s physical health, or on the fashion in which this phenomenon may combine and interact with socioeconomic markers. The present study assessed 375 mothers and […]

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Author Browne, Dillon T.

Advisor Jenkins, Jennifer M.

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Title Education and the Unschooled Student: Teachers’ Discourses on Teaching Elementary School English Literacy Development Students

Excerpt Based on empirical qualitative data collected by interviewing eight elementary school teachers from across four different school boards in Ontario and analyzing new Ontario Ministry of Education policy and guidelines for supporting and programming for English Literacy Development (ELD) students, this research seeks to better understand how teachers’ discourses influence their perception of ELD students’ […]

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Author Brubacher, Katherine

Advisor Gérin-Lajoie, Diane

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