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Title The Educational Production of Students at Risk

Excerpt Informed by institutional ethnography, and taking the problematic from disjunctures in teacher/participants’ experience between actual practice and official policy, this study is an intertextual analysis of print/electronic documents pertaining to students ‘at risk.’ It unpacks the Student Success Strategy in Ontario secondary schools as organized around discourses on risk and safety. Discriminatory classing and racializing […]

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SDGs Quality Education

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Title Intentional traumatic brain injury in Ontario, Canada

Excerpt Violence and traumatic brain injury (TBI) are two major public health concerns. This thesis is comprised of three different research topics; the epidemiology of intentional TBI in Ontario, discharge against medical advice (DAMA) as an undesirable outcome of acute stage, and functional changes after receiving rehabilitation care. To study these areas, three different datasets from […]

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Author Kim, Hwan

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Departments Rehabilitation Science

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Title “Energy Security and Climate Change Policy in the OECD: the Political Economy of Carbon-energy Taxation”

Excerpt Why do countries tax the same fuels at widely different rates, even among similarly situated countries in the global political economy? Given the potentially destabilizing effects of climate change, and the political and economic risks associated with a reliance on geographically concentrated, finite fossil fuels, International Organizations and economists of all political stripes have consistently […]

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Author Lachapelle, Érick

Advisor Pauly, Louis

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClimate ActionIndustry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Reduced Inequalities

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Keywords climate, energy, environment, industr, taxation

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Title “To Make the Negro Anew”; The African American Worker in the Progressive Imagination 1896-1928

Excerpt This dissertation examines how progressive era social scientists thought about African American workers and their place in the nation’s industrial past, present, and future.Progressives across the color line drew on a common discourse of industrial evolution that linked racial development with labor fitness. Evolutionary science merged with scientific management to create new taxonomies of racial […]

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Author Lawrie, Paul

Advisor Bender, Daniel ||Halpern, Rick

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthIndustry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Title Three Essays on Total Returns to the Employment Relationship

Excerpt This dissertation examines the total returns to the employment relationship from a variety of perspectives. In the first chapter, I examine different forms of training and study its influence on individual turnover. My second chapter examines the impact of mandatory volunteer/work experience in high school on the employment and wage decisions of youths. In my […]

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Author Lee, Byron Y. S.

Advisor Gunderson, Morley

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Departments Industrial Relations and Human Resources

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Keywords employment, labour, wage

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Title Expansion and Equality in Access to Chinese Higher Education: A Cultural Perspective

Excerpt This study is a sequential multi-methods research effort which examines the issue of equality in Chinese higher education after the recent expansion, and explores how educational equality has been shaped by policies which reflected the shifting value orientations of the government since 1949. Quantitative methods were used to discover the current patterns of educational equality. […]

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Author Liu, Jian

Advisor Hayhoe, Ruth

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SDGs Gender EqualityQuality Education

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Keywords equality, inclusive

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Title Victimhood and Socio-legal Narratives of Hate Crime Against Queer Communities in Canada, 1985-2003

Excerpt This dissertation analyzes personal and institutional narratives that shape the Canadian phenomenon of anti-LGBT violence as hate crime and locate queers within and without the discursive figure of the responsible, legitimate and undeserving victim of hate crime. These socio-legal narratives were taken from interviews with LGBT community activists involved in anti-violence projects, mainstream and gay […]

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Author Lunny, Allyson M.

Advisor Gartner, Rosemary

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SDGs Gender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Title Essays on Empirical Dynamic Games and Imperfect Information

Excerpt This thesis collects three papers that study applied problems in economics dealing with dynamic strategic behavior and imperfect information. In the first chapter I study the relationship between participation in United Nations Human Rights Treaties (HRT), foreign aid receipts and domestic human rights institutions. I provide empirical evidence that countries with relatively high HRT participation […]

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Author Magesan, Arvind

Advisor Aguirregabiria, Victor

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SDGs Climate ActionPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Title Girls’ Education as a Means or End of Development? A Case Study of Gender and Education Policy Knowledge and Action in the Gambia

Excerpt Girls’ education has been promoted by the international development community for over two decades; however, it has proven harder to promote gender equality through education than it has been to promote gender parity in education. Of significance is the global circulation and co-existence of two competing rationales for the importance of girls’ education: economic efficiency […]

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Author Manion, Caroline

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Quality Education

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Departments Sociology and Equity Studies in Education

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Keywords economic growth, educat, equality, gender, justice, women

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Title The 1990 Kirpan Case: Cultural Conflict and the Development of Equity Policy in the Peel District School Board

Excerpt In 1990, a case came before the Ontario Human Rights Commission involving the collision of a religious rights policy enshrined in the Ontario Human Rights Code 1981 and a Peel Board of Education disciplinary policy prohibiting weapons including the kirpan, a dagger-like article of religious faith worn by baptized Sikhs. Harbhajan Singh Pandori claimed infringement […]

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Author Martin, Mary S.

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