Excerpt This qualitative inquiry uses a life history prospective approach to investigate the social context in which adolescent girls’ sexual feelings emerge and in which girls’ sexual experiences occur. Nine adolescent girls were interviewed at two points in time during their adolescence and themes from their narratives were analyzed with respect to their experiences with sexuality. […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Viner, Margarita
Advisor Piran, Niva
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SDGs Gender Equality
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Departments Adult Education and Counselling Psychology
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Excerpt To understand how Aboriginal youths’ access to post-secondary schooling opportunities is created and constrained, structures of inclusion and exclusion are examined. In particular, the legitimization of unequal treatment and disparate outcomes is problematized; making the case that public schooling systems limit the opportunities of youth. In this study, youths’ post-secondary aspirations are contextualized on the […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Hudson, Natasha
Advisor Restoule, Jean-Paul ||Bascia, Nina
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Excerpt In this Arts-informed Life History I use dialogue and narrative to illustrate “pedagogy in practice” and illuminate the life’s work of Métis adult educator Dave Skene. Skene tells stories of experience working cross-culturally to illustrate how individuals are transformed by learning experiences and how they contribute to transformative learning in others’ lives. He recounts experiences […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Hill, Daniel Louis
Advisor Knowles, J. Gary
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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Excerpt The present study explored the influence of survivor weight and participant gender, rape myth acceptance and anti-fat attitudes on perceptions of sexual assault. Using an online survey tool, participants (N = 413) read a vignette describing a hypothetical sexual assault scenario and completed several self-report questionnaires. Generalized linear model analyses revealed that participants were more […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Clarke, Allyson
Advisor Stermac, Lana
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Excerpt This thesis describes the researcher’s journey as an online facilitator and reflective organization development (OD) practitioner as she explores how to nurture and cultivate space for learning and collaboration in an online community of practice. The research setting is a small group of mostly volunteers in a national health charity. The researcher adopts a reflective […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Boyle, Bettina Helth Arnum
Advisor Jackson, Nancy
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SDGs Quality Education
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Excerpt Within Canada, young adults have been identified as being at high risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI). One major contributing factor is inconsistent condom use, particularly within monogamous relationships (Civic, 2000; Critelli & Suire, 1998; Misovich, Fisher & Fisher, 1997; Winfield & Whaley, 2005). This research used qualitative methods to investigate the process by which […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Bolton, Melissa
Advisor Schneider, Margaret
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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being
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Excerpt HIV incidence continues to rise in the population of gay and bisexual men (Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, 2008), a high-risk group due to the complexity of promoting sexual behavior change on an enduring basis. In the present study, interview data from fifteen self-identified gay or bisexual men living in an urban Canadian city […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Blackwell-Hardie, Victoria
Advisor Gillis, Joseph Roy
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Excerpt This qualitative study looks at the learning that takes place during activism. Throughout this work, learning is conceptualized as the ongoing formation of critical consciousness rather than the acuqisition of skills for the purpose of securing menial employment. Furthermore, critical consciousness is seen to develop through the nonlinear interplay of thoughts and actions. This investigation […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Biazar, Bahar
Advisor Mojab, Shahrzad
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SDGs Gender EqualityQuality Education
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Excerpt Using collage as a methodological and conceptual framework for re-conceptualizing knowledge in HIV/AIDS education, this thesis attends to young women’s understandings of HIV/AIDS and sexuality. Through engaging in the process of making collages, what stories do young women tell about HIV/AIDS? What discourses are produced when collage and narrative are used as methodological tools to […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Switzer, Sarah Lynne
Advisor Gaztambide-Fernandez, Ruben
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SDGs Gender EqualityQuality Education
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Departments Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
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Excerpt In Malawi, an estimated 202 000 children are out of school and of those in school, less than 50 percent reach grade five. Increasingly, alternatives to the formal school system are gaining traction as a means to reach these excluded children. Recognizing the necessity, the Malawian government recently stipulated a non-formal provision in its education […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Malcolm, Alison
Advisor Farrell, Joseph P.
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SDGs Quality EducationSustainable Cities and Communities
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Departments Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
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Keywords educat, rural
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