VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
Bodies that sing: the formation of singing subjects
Keywords: Music in education
Singing
Music appreciation

This study explores how singing subject positions are discursively produced in various social spaces, including how people come to understand themselves as 'non-singers' and 'not musical'. The notion of 'non-singers' is addressed as a socially mediated construction primarily achieved through the formation of White' bourgeois subjectivity and various boundary-keeping practices necessary for the preservation of 'respectable space'. 'White' bourgeois subjectivity requires the preservation of social hierarchies. Therefore, discussions about singing practices as cultural phenomena and socially mediating practices are taken up in terms of how they reinforce social hierarchies by race, class, gender, and sexuality through the dominating discourses and practices of 'Whiteness' in social relations. This study is positioned within the field of Community Music focusing on informal singing practices and a wide range of teaching/learning practices. The primary data comes from observations and interviews with a select group of people who teach singing to adults outside of formal music education and who use a variety of alternative approaches to singing. I include my own practice in this data. Other primary data comes from interviews from a small sampling of so-called non-singers. Secondary data comes from a wide range of sources that address the phenomenon of individual and group singing. Analysis of the data is informed by feminist, poststructuralist and postmodern theories of subject formation, critical race theory, class formation, spatial theory, and linguistics. Because this exploration of the 'singing subject' is based in a discourse that sees singing as a developmental phenomenon, the singer/non-singer binary can be challenged. Understanding how this socially and culturally mediated construction results in practices of exclusion and subordination provides insights into the creation of anti-subordinating practices and approaches to singing based in counter-discourses of resistance and alternative practices. This opens up possibilities for educators to treat singing as socially transformative and liberatory--positively affecting social relations among individual and collective subjects, and shaping discourses that affect communities and institutions. This study builds on research which attempts to find pedagogical principles and strategies that can move music educators, song leaders and teachers of singing to creatively incorporate critical reflection practices into our teaching.
A comparative analysis of wage claims' priority in corporate bankruptcy procedures: Canada and Peru
Keywords: Priorities of claims and liens, Canada
Wages, Peru
Corporate reorganizations, Canada
Bankruptcy, Canada
Bankruptcy, Peru
Corporate reorganizations, Peru
Priorities of claims and liens, Peru
Wages, Canada

This thesis gives an account of wage claims' priority in the corporate bankruptcy regime of Canada and Peru, whose legal system and economic circumstances are quite different. Therefore, this thesis makes the normative argument that proposals for reform of wage claims' priority should not be considered in isolation, but must be assessed by reference to what can be called the "matrix of non-bankruptcy laws" relating to wage-earner protection, such as the labor market, directors' liability and employment insurance. In this respect, as the thesis demonstrates, Canada and Peru are actually different, even when their bankruptcy principles and the categories of their bankruptcy proceedings are almost the same. The thesis also makes a corresponding descriptive point, namely that the special priority Peruvian law gives to wage earner claims needs to be understood against the backdrop of Peruvian non-bankruptcy law which, in comparison with Canada, provides very little protection for workers.
Effectiveness and improvement processes in Canada's isolated schools: the relationship between the schools' implementation of core-plus processes and parental involvement
Keywords: Rural schools, Canada
School management and organization, Canada
Education, Parent participation
Education, Canada

This study examines school effectiveness and school improvement processes in a sample of Canada's isolated schools. It builds upon a previous study of Canada's isolated schools, in which, among the issues identified both by the teachers and principals who were surveyed, was the lack of parental involvement. The purpose of this study is to examine the processes that isolated Canadian schools have implemented to engage the active involvement of parents and community members and to determine what relationships exist between the implementation of such processes and parental involvement. Principals of 36 isolated schools responded to an online questionnaire about their schools' processes and parental involvement. The relationship between school processes and parental involvement was explored using correlation and regression analyses. School processes related to curriculum development and specific classroom activities, development of school vision and development of school policy accounted for 72% of the variance in the schools' views on the basic obligation of the school communicating with the community. The relationships between school processes and other views related to parental involvement were weaker. The findings support the importance of home-school links and parental involvement in providing effective schooling and enhancing student outcomes in these isolated communities.
Nonlinear, finite strain, finite element model of the mechanics of the posterior tracheal membrane
Keywords: Membranes (Biology), Mechanical properties
Finite element method
Turbulence, Mathematical models

The deflection of a Y-shaped membrane under a uniform static pressure load is analyzed as a suitable structural component for a model of forced expiration, flow limitation and wheezing, as occur in obstructive airway diseases. First a linear model is analyzed using the Rayleigh-Ritz finite element method. The predicted deformation increases monotonically with transmural pressure. The linear restrictions are then removed and a nonlinear, finite strain, finite deformation model is developed. The predicted tube law is qualitatively the same at various cross-sections of the trachea, and is insensitive to the magnitude and shape assumed for the resting area. The predicted wave speed shows an initial raise, followed by a sustained fall as collapse progresses. Maximal flow rate computed for parameters relevant to the human trachea is 12 lps, which is of the same order as the observed value 6–10 lps.
Preservice secondary school mathematics teachers exploring the integration of computer technology in their instructional practices: a caribbean perspective
Keywords: Mathematics teachers, In-service training
Student teachers
Computer-assisted instruction
Education, Data processing
Educational innovations

This qualitative study of preservice secondary school mathematics (PSSM) teachers in an English-speaking Caribbean country was conducted within a naturalistic paradigm. The study examined, described and analysed their experiences, the nature of interactions and their perceptions as they explored the use of computer technology (CT) as part of their teacher development. Semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, journals of activities, lesson plans, and contributions to a conferencing database were utilised to gain an in-depth understanding of their experiences, interactions and perceptions. This study confirms that PSSM teachers' awareness of CT, having hands-on experience of CT tools, limited resources and support are insufficient to effectively integrate CT for educational changes. It was astounding to see the PSSM teachers taking new roles for the purpose of effecting changes in teaching and learning. Providing necessary CT resources and support for teachers and students, as well as follow-up experiences in which continuous growth and development can transpire will be key factors in the reform efforts. Results of the study posit that mathematics teacher education in the English-speaking Caribbean country needs serious and immediate considerations in providing resources, support and professional development as a priority for its development and impact on the education system to move towards the global age. These PSSM teachers need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills, and be provided with the resources, and support to sustain their confidence and motivation for them to continue their personal growth and develop their community and teaching profession.
The concurrent development of basic reading skills in french and english in early french immersion
Keywords: Reading
French language, Study and teaching (Elementary)
English language, Study and teaching (Elementary)
French language, Study and teaching (Elementary)
Language and languages, Orthography and spelling

English-speaking children in Grade 1 French immersion classes participated in a 1-year longitudinal study of the concurrent development of basic literacy skills in French and English and the extent to which French literacy skill development parallels English literacy skill development. Literacy development in French and English was explored by examining students' reading and spelling skills at the beginning and end of Grade one. As well, the study explored the role of skills such as phonological awareness, verbal memory, vocabulary, speed of lexical access, word recognition, and oral language proficiency in predicting literacy skills in the L1 and L2. Although students' French and English literacy skill development was similar, improvement was more pronounced in French, the L2. Basic component processes, such as phonological awareness, were more developed in English while the more advanced literacy skills, such as spelling, were more developed in French. Despite the lack of systematic instruction, English skills continued to develop, thus suggesting transfer from the L2. Other examples of transfer were found among the predictors of literacy skills. For example, L1 word recognition proved to be a consistent predictor of L2 word recognition above and beyond phonological awareness, and vice versa. L1 word recognition also proved to be a good predictor of L2 spelling skills and visa versa. Rapid naming of digits, phonological awareness, vocabulary, and memory also predicted literacy skills crosslinguistically. The role of oral language proficiency in predicting literacy skills was minimal. The second part of the thesis focused on a comparison of spelling errors in French and English. In-depth spelling error analysis results revealed that although spelling development may follow a similar pattern in the L1 and L2, students' approximations to standard spelling do not evolve simultaneously for all words. Both positive and negative transfer was noted among the spelling errors as well as in the continued improvement in English spelling skills. In both languages, students' basic “primitive” errors decreased over time, while their more complex errors increased over time. This study provided support for both the universal processing hypothesis as well as the orthography-specific hypothesis in the area of French immersion.
Supporting self-management in patients with congestive heart failure
Keywords: Industrial engineering
Health education
Health services administration

Heart failure is the most common cause of hospitalization in Canada. Over half of the hospitalized patients are readmitted within 6 months of discharge. These patients face even greater health risks as a result of gaps in care which occur during transition of care from hospital to community. The research presented in this dissertation builds on the existing body of research on transition of care by identifying issues that patients face after discharge from hospital and by proposing and evaluating a remote self-care education program. In the first part of this thesis, methodologies relevant to development and evaluation of information systems for healthcare are considered, and an alternative framework is proposed. Consistent with the proposed framework, patient self-management education, the educational approach which forms the basis of the proposed intervention, is validated through a systematic review of literature. Next, two qualitative studies were conducted in order to identify issues that occur during transition of care, from the perspectives of healthcare practitioners and patients. The first study consisted of a contextual inquiry and interviews with case managers. In the second qualitative study, patients with heart failure who were discharged to the community were interviewed and barriers and enablers to care that affect this patient population were identified. Based on the feedback from the systematic review and the qualitative studies, an intervention consisting of remote self-management education was designed. In a randomized study involving patients with heart failure released from hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area, two methods of delivery of self-care education were compared. One group was given an access to a web-site containing educational content, and another group was also participating in four live telephone-based education sessions led by a cardiac nurse. Results demonstrated that patients in the live education groups scored higher on the self-care knowledge test following the intervention. This dissertation concludes with a distinction of the implications of this research for future care of congestive heart failure patients.
Business coaching for team leadership development
Keywords: Executive coaching
Teams in the workplace
Leadership, Study and teaching

This study explores coaching leaders of teams from the perspectives of business coaches. The conceptual framework integrated the stages of learning with the coaching stages to examine their interrelationships. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight business coaches located from coaching websites. Their responses were analyzed qualitatively by coding the data to identify major themes and their features. There is not a clear delineation between the interactive stages of learning and the coaching stages. Coaching interventions focus on continuous improvement by taking the cyclic coaching stages to more complex levels to facilitate awareness and build competencies, as the developmental learning stages evolve at deeper levels. The value of coaching is its ability to facilitate learning by expanding awareness and shifting performance to higher levels while achieving goals that are linked to organizational benefits. Business coaches model a process for their clients to adopt a coaching leadership style within their organizations.
Changing practice through collaborative study groups: teachers' impressions of an urban board intervention program
Keywords: Teachers, Training of
Teachers, Ontario
Teachers, Attitudes
Teachers, Ontario
Educational change, Ontario

Education has seen a shift from traditional forms of professional development focusing on teachers as individuals to alternative approaches focusing on teachers as a collective. Such programs are job-embedded and collaborative, and may be more effective in changing teacher practice than traditional programs as they foster on-going cooperation, dialogue, mentoring, coaching, reflection, and learning. This thesis explores teacher impressions of the Middle Years Adolescent Literacy Project, an initiative that takes a collective approach to professional development. At its core is the creation and sustenance of collaborative study groups.
Human rights working for women
Keywords: Woman rights
Women, Legal status, laws, etc
Human rights, Ecuador

In this thesis, the author focuses on women's rights to equality with men in the field of employment. The relevant international human rights norms are interpreted in the context of the gender inequality, specifically the gender pay gap, of a particular State---the United Kingdom. From this, practical norms and standards are derived to enable the Government of that State to meet its international obligations. The same technique may be applied to establish international human rights standards for any State. Considerable analysis follows of the discrimination laws in the United Kingdom, the extent and causes of the gender pay gap in employment and aspects of the tax and welfare system which compound women's relative disadvantage. This analysis provides sufficient understanding of the context from which the content of "all appropriate measures" can be appreciated. "All appropriate measures" are proposed in the final chapter that would be in accordance with the requirements of international human rights laws regarding gender equality in employment. International human rights law has been criticised for its failure to fully and adequately address the concerns of women. Even those provisions that do seem to bear upon women's rights have been criticised as too vague to provide any tangible standards. This thesis will show instead that international human rights law can be applied to provide relevant guiding norms for State Parties with respect to women's rights. The thesis begins with consideration of the international human rights norms as they bear upon women in employment. The main reference is to the work of the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. However, the work of other human rights treaty bodies and the International Labour Organisation is also relevant. This provides the basis from which to consider how the United Kingdom can "respect," "protect" and "assist and fulfil" these rights.
Caribbean-Canadian adolescents' perceptions of teacher influence on their personal development
Keywords: West Indians, Education
West Indians, Canada
Teacher-student relationships
Motivation in education
High school teachers, Canada

The relationships among 50 Caribbean-Canadian adolescents' perceptions of their teachers' interpersonal attitudes and actions in general and as they pertain to issues of race and adolescents' self-esteem and ethnic identity development were examined. The students responded to questions about their perceptions of teacher-student interactions and to questions relating to three hypothetical scenarios. Both quantitative and qualitative techniques were used to analyse the data. The analyses revealed that teachers were perceived to be the least influential people in the participants' lives, in comparison to significant others. The results of the study indicated that although the students had positive interactions with their teachers they still perceived prejudice within their schools, as well as within their classrooms. Further, self-esteem was positively associated with their perceptions of their teacher-student interactions, while there were no significant associations with ethnic identity. The analyses also exposed gender differences that confirmed published research.
Knowing in our bones: exploring the embodied knowledge of somatic educators
Keywords: Psychophysiology
Counselors
Teaching
Medicine, Psychosomatic
Perceptual-motor processes

This thesis examines the personal experiences, understandings, and values of somatic practitioners in relation to their work and to the field of somatic education. The embodied knowledge of four somatic educators—a teacher of Alexander Technique®, a Trager® practitioner, a certified movement analyst who teaches Bartenieff Fundamentals® , and a practitioner of Gestalt Somatics—is investigated through a process of dialogue, interaction, and lived experience.
The effectiveness of orientations as an alternative to traditional hazing practices
Keywords: Hazing
Initiation rites
Sports teams, Social aspects
Solidarity

This dissertation described two major research themes. The first was an assessment of the perceived effectiveness of alternative types of orientation activities by the participants such as co-operative games, ropes courses and team building activities, as substitutes for more traditional forms of initiating first-year players onto varsity teams. (The past practices have included numerous hazing ceremonies involving degradation, humiliation and abuse which the candidates were forced to endure in order to secure their social place within their team community). The second theme explored in this project involved the development of communitas, membership and bonding of participants to their teams and team mates as a result of going through an alternative form of orientation. It focussed on the need for groups to maintain entry rituals in a bid to address the tensions around belonging, identification and masculinity. This was a qualitative study involving varsity athletes and coaches from teams that included males and females in each of hockey, volleyball, badminton, and basketball. The orientation ceremony was found to be an effective replacement for traditional forms of entry rituals as it creates a more egalitarian plane which diminishes veteran-rookie power imbalances, restructures the team hierarchy and allows for a more democratic environment. These orientation characteristics forge a deeper bond among players and coaches who opt to participate. Although all traditional forms of hazing were not completely eliminated after their orientation event on the teams that participated, it was effective in humanizing the first year players and creating a kinship which did lessen the extent to which they were hazed during their team organized ceremony.
Character education - a health belief model: bridging the gap between character education health education
Keywords: Moral education
Health education
Social sciences, Study and teaching

This thesis examines character education in relation to two important health frameworks: the health belief model and the model of health promotion schools. A case is made for an approach to character education that is more than a course of study, more than a set of lessons. Rather it is presented as a way of life modeled in the way students are taught and in the ways in which they interact with each other, with teachers and with curriculum content. The health belief model, typically limited to the explanation of health related behaviours, is expanded to include a critical and transformational approach to health, which is shown to be consistent with a constructivist view of character education. It is argued that health education and character education are inextricably linked, existing essentially as one in the same.
Application of the oppression remedy: The "reasonable expectation" test
Keywords: Stockholders, Canada
Corporation law, Canada
Remedies (Law), Canada

The adoption of the oppression remedy in Canada empowers the corporation stakeholders to bring an action against the corporation when the conduct of the corporation has an effect that is oppressive, unfairly prejudicial, or unfairly disregards the interests of a stakeholder. However, according to S.241 of the CBCA, it provides a wide scope of the oppression and gives a court a wide power in defining the specific oppression case. Although there is no clear guidance in the application of the oppression remedy in Canada, it has been widely recognized that courts gravitate towards using a test of "Reasonable Expectation" of the complaint in the judicial application of the oppression remedy. The purpose of the thesis is to briefly introduce the evolvement of the test and focus on the determination of the "reasonableness" in the judicial exercise of the discretion.