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Title Restoring Awareness: Stories of Childhood Experience and Ecological Identity

Excerpt In trying to understand ecological identity within adult environmental education, I embarked on an arts-informed exploration of my life history. I realized that everything I know about the environment grew from what I experienced as a child. My childhood experiences are most vivid in my memories of the natural world. I wanted to know more […]

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SDGs Climate ActionQuality Education

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Title An Examination of the Characteristics of High Achieving Black Students and Practical Recommendations to Help Support All Educational Stakeholders

Excerpt The aim is to empower all students to achieve academic success by overcoming the educational barriers that exist within the school system. This thesis examines what sociological factors are at play that encourages the academic success of Black students. The emphasis will be to identify how other Black students can replicate the success of their […]

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Author Hart, Lisa

Advisor Wane, Njoki ||Feuerverger, Grace

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Title Educating For Global Citizenship: An Exploration of Two Curricular Methods

Excerpt This mixed-methods study contributes to the limited literature on global citizenship by comparing the impacts of two curricular methods used to educate for global citizenship: international education experiences and a school-wide approach. Using Round Square as the case study, an international association of secondary schools that incorporate both methods to foster global citizenship, and an […]

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Author Kronfli, Monica

Advisor Quarter, Jack

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Title Experiences in Critical Literacy: Students Deemed “At Risk” in Canadian Schools

Excerpt Recently Ontario included critical literacy in the Language Arts curriculum. I plan to investigate what impact critical literacy will have on Canadian schools. I will present ideas in a critical narrative framework; drawing on pre-existing data-sets of experiences I gathered teaching in an urban Ontario school board for the last six years. I will also […]

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Author Leish, Kaylyn Mc

Advisor Cooper, Karyn

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Title Schooling In Little Portugal: The Portuguese Experience

Excerpt This thesis examines the problem of low educational attainment rates of Portuguese- Canadian students in the areas of “Little Portugal” and West Toronto. Interviews were conducted with former students, teachers, administrators, and community leaders who have all experienced or are linked to the public education system in those areas of Toronto. The question, “why has […]

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Author Libertucci, Amelia

Advisor Troper, Harold M.

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Title Perceptions of Postsecondary Education in a Northern Ontario Community

Excerpt From my position as ally to an Anishnawbe community in Northern Ontario, I explored the relationships of community members to postsecondary education. Eight current and former students, a teacher at the school and a band councilor, shared with me their experiences and their knowledge about the Community and its school system. The data revealed that […]

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Author Nardozi, Angela

Advisor Muzzin, Linda ||Restoule, Jean-Paul

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Title Acculturative Stress and Coping Among Immigrant Professional Workers

Excerpt Empirical investigations of the prevalence and associated features of mental health issues in immigrant populations, have implicated acculturative stress as a potentially significant factor (Sam & Berry, 2010). Acculturative stress is associated with unemployment and underemployment among immigrant professional workers. The objective of the current investigation is to examine the prevalence and impact of acculturation, […]

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Author Robinson, Jennifer J.

Advisor Chen, Charles

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGood Health and Well-Being

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Title The Appeal of Israel: Whiteness, Anti-Semitism, and the Roots of Diaspora Zionism in Canada

Excerpt This thesis explores the appeal of Israel and Zionism for Ashkenazi Jews in Canada. The origins of Diaspora Zionism are examined using a genealogical methodology and analyzed through a bricolage of theoretical lenses including post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and critical race theory. The active maintenance of Zionist hegemony in Canada is also explored through a discourse analysis […]

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Author Balsam, Corey

Advisor Nestel, Sheryl

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Title Segregation versus Self-determination: A Black and White Debate on Canada’s First Africentric School

Excerpt The racialized realities faced by Black students provide an impetus to examine the controversy over Canada’s first Africentric Alternative School, approved on January 29, 2008 by the Toronto District School Board. Newspaper articles, editorials and letters to the editor, as well as speeches by delegations and trustees, provide a rich snapshot of the arguments put […]

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Author Chen, Shaun Sheng Yuan

Advisor Eichler, Margrit

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Title Yoruba Indigenous Knowledges in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power and the Politics of Indigenous Spirituality

Excerpt This study investigates how Yoruba migrants make meaning of Yoruba Indigenous knowledges in the African Diaspora, specifically within the geopolitical space of dominant Canadian culture. This research is informed by the lived experiences of 16 Africans of Yoruba descent now living in Toronto, Canada, and explores how these first and second generation migrants construct the […]

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Author Adefarakan, Elizabeth Temitope

Advisor Dei, George Jerry Sefa

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