Excerpt Can we be accountable to privilege? Can we find a space for coherent anti-racist secular Ashkenazi Jewish identity in North America, where Jews have been deeply implicated in structural violence? Can we be agents of both complicity and change? This auto-ethnography describes a haunting; focusing on the ghostly presences of my deceased uncle Larry Treiman […]
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Certificate in Sustainability
Author Epstein, Griffin
Advisor Nestel, Sheryl
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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Excerpt The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, renowned for its academic rigor, is also committed to forwarding the larger organization’s mission of creating “a better and more peaceful world” through education. This qualitative case study explores the conceptions of peace education held by three IB Diploma English A1 teachers, the factors that shaped those conceptions, and possible […]
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Certificate in Sustainability
Author Bent, Margaret
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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsQuality Education
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Excerpt This thesis explores the relationships between pre-service teacher training, peace education, anti-racism education, gender equity education and conflict resolution. Specifically, this study investigates the mandatory School and Society course within the Initial Teacher Education Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, to explore peace education training within the […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Bartlett, Tiffany Anne
Advisor Feuerverger, Grace
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SDGs Gender EqualityQuality Education
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Excerpt This research examines the relationship between masculinity and recruitment at the University of Toronto during the Great War. Through a gendered framework established by historians such as Judith Butler, masculinity is approached as a constructed process that encompasses a variety of complex relationships between the individual subject and social processes. The following questions are explored: […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Chaktsiris, Mary Georgina
Advisor Morgan, Cecilia
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Excerpt This paper explores character educations policy documents from two Ontario school boards as well as several published articles that report on results from research related to implementation of character education programs in Ontario and the United States. This paper examines the connection between school board documents of two school boards with the Ontario Ministry of […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Berry, Debra
Advisor Stiegelbauer, Suzanne
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Excerpt This thesis follows the development of the Ukrainian identity in Toronto since World War II. It explores the formation of collective memory by the Third Wave of Ukrainian immigration who arrived in Toronto in the early 1950s and the crystallization of a particular Ukrainian identity within this community. In particular, it looks at the role […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Baczynskyj, Anastasia
Advisor Troper, Harold M.
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Excerpt This study used pre-existing data to examine whether children with ADHD, with and without working memory (WM) deficits, differ in their academic achievement and clinical profiles. 73 children (26% female), aged 6-12 years, with a confirmed diagnosis of ADHD had completed standardized achievement tests of reading, mathematics, and written language. Six WM measures and three […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Aginsky, Danielle
Advisor Tannock, Rosemary
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SDGs Good Health and Well-BeingQuality Education
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Excerpt This thesis presents a case study of Canada’s first Black owned radio station, FLOW 93.5 FM, to demonstrate how official multiculturalism, in its formulation and implementation, negates Canada’s history of slavery and racial inequality. As a response to diversity, multiculturalism shifts the focus away from racial inequality to cultural difference. Consequently, Black self-determination is unauthorized. […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author McKenzie, Kisrene
Advisor Razack, Sherene
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SDGs Gender EqualityReduced Inequalities
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Excerpt This thesis works from a disability studies perspective to explore the meaning of ‘mental health and illness’ in a university setting. I use the concept of ‘emotional anguish’ as a way to shift the meaning of pain from its taken-for-granted understanding as a medical issue to a more open conception of pain as a category […]
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Sustainability Scholar
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Author MacDougall, Jan
Advisor Titchkosky, Tanya
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Excerpt This thesis draws from ten semi-structured interviews with multiracial men in Toronto, Canada. It is an exploratory study that examines how participants experience race, masculinities and identities. Multiracial identities challenge popular notions of racial categories and expose social processes of racialization and the shifting nature of social identities. I explore how gender impacts participants’ experiences […]
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Sustainability Scholar
Certificate in Sustainability
Author Lafond, Danielle
Advisor Mahtani, Minelle
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