VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
Daily routines, parenting hassles, and social support: the role that early childhood services play in parents' and children's daily life
Keywords: Child care services, Ontario
School-linked human services, Ontario
Parenting
Children, Services for
Children, Ontario
Parents, Services for
Parents, Ontario

This study explored the impact of integrated services consisting of kindergarten, child care and family support programs on the daily lives of parents and their kindergarten-aged children. The quasi-experimental design compared the daily experiences of parents and children accessing integrated and traditional forms of kindergarten and child care services. Thirty-eight parents completed questionnaires and semi-structured interviews regarding daily routines, parenting daily hassles, social support networks, and views about early childhood services. Sixteen children participated in semi-structured interviews that assessed their views about their daily routines. Analyses indicated that service integration is associated with lower levels of daily parenting hassles, greater satisfaction with some forms of support, and greater levels of continuity in children's days. The results are discussed in relation to implications for practice, policy, and future research.
The elegiac contradiction and the apocalyptic gesture: Christian and aboriginal forms of consolation in English Canadian first nations, and Métis literatures
Keywords: Religion
Philosophy
Canadian literature
Indians of North America

In early English Canadian literature, consolations of Christian transcendence displaced what I shall call Aboriginal forms of immanence. However, writers in the late nineteenth century used Aboriginal forms to supplement a Romantic sense of a lost past, while writers in the twentieth century used them to compensate for the loss of the effectiveness of Christian consolations. Aboriginal forms remained supplemental until First Nations writers reinvigorated the primary effectiveness of their own traditions.
An examination of dysphoria in children with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Keywords: Depression in children
Learning disabled children, Psychology
Attention-deficit-disordered children, Psychology
Hyperactive children, Psychology

This dissertation is comprised of two studies that investigated whether Learning Disabilities (LD), Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), social, and academic skills are associated with higher risk for depressive symptoms (dysphoria) in 9 to 15-year old children. The Children's Depression Inventory (Kovacs, 1992) was used to measure dysphoria. The results of this thesis suggest that in children with LD, comorbid ADHD places them at risk for dysphoria. Results further showed that of the two dimensions of ADHD it was the inattentive dimension and not the hyperactive/impulsive dimension that placed children at risk for dysphoria. Future research should examine the biological basis of the link between inattention and dysphoria as well as other variables (e.g., oppositionality/aggression, parenting) that may mediate this link. In Study 1 I investigated whether the higher levels of dysphoria previously found in children with LD compared to children without LD are associated with co-occurring ADHD. This ADHD comorbidity hypothesis was tested in 287 participants (53 LD; 31 ADHD; 75 LD/ADHD, and 128 typically developing comparison children). A higher level of dysphoria was found to be associated with ADHD and not with LD. In Study 2 I further explored factors that may account for the link between ADHD and dysphoria. More specifically, I examined which ADHD dimension (inattentive or hyperactive/impulsive) is associated with dysphoria. I further examined whether social and academic skills mediate the relationship between these dimensions and dysphoria in accordance with the Social Skill Deficit (Lewinsohn, 1975) and the Dual Failure (Patterson et al. 1990, 1991) models of depression. The two models were tested in 146 children (86 children with a previous diagnosis of ADHD and 60 non-diagnosed children). Social and academic skills were measured using standardized tests. The major finding was that inattentive symptoms predicted dysphoria, social and academic skills when hyperactive/impulsive symptoms were controlled for whereas hyperactive/impulsive symptoms were not predictive when inattentive symptoms were controlled. Social and academic problems did not mediate the relationship between inattentive or hyperactive/impulsive symptoms and dysphoria.
Experiences of class among migrant domestic workers in Toronto
Keywords: Household employees, Ontario
Women immigrants, Ontario
Women foreign workers, Ontario

This thesis explores the experiences of class among migrant domestic workers by drawing on semi-structured interviews with seven women of varying nationalities employed in the Greater Toronto Area. Drawing on feminist theory on the experience of class and my interview data, I argue that domestic workers occupy contradictory class positions. These contradictions are founded in the disjuncture between their class positions as domestics, juxtaposed with their envisioned future occupations and lifestyle possibilities. Though women expressed some ambivalence with their current lifestyle, there was a general sense of impermanency to their present occupation. Women employ specific strategies to reconcile some of the daily contradictions in class that they face in the domestic workplace, and to affirm the value of their class positioning within their working environment, including adhering to predominant stereotypes of race, class and nationality, confrontations with employers, quitting, maintaining privacy, and adapting to being a domestic worker.
Manufacturing the responsible citizen: a textual analysis of the civics and career studies texts in Ontario's secondary schools
Keywords: Civics, Study and teaching (Secondary)
Civics, Ontario
Social sciences, Study and teaching (Secondary)
Social sciences, Ontario
Career development

In this study, I will examine the Civics and Career textbooks used in Ontario's secondary schools. It is my assumption that the textbooks are a reflection of existing political and economic structures and that the course material offers the student little opportunity to critically analyze existing power structures. My investigation centres on the â€œrealitiesâ€ created by the textbooks and the opportunities for change presented by the authors of the course material. Eight textbooks (four from each course) approved for use in Ontario's secondary schools by the Ministry of Education are used in the analysis of this study. The discussion at the end of the paper examines attempts made by the textbooks to develop an â€œidealâ€ citizen for placement in society.
The structure of attitudes towards science
Keywords: Science, Study and teaching
Students, Attitudes

The underlying structure of attitude questions on Student Questionnaire accompanying the School Achievement Indicators Program (SAIP) Science Assessment (1999) is investigated. An exploratory factor analysis is employed to analyse data from 13- and 16-year-old Ontario Anglophone students. Results support a six-factor model for both age groups. The factors for the 13-year-old students are interpreted as: (1) interest in and liking of school, (2) importance of and interest in science, (3) external locus of control, (4) extracurricular activities, (5) peer interaction, and (6) parental involvement. The interpretation of the model for the 16-year-old students is similar with the exception that items representing a combination of internal locus of control and engagement form a distinct factor and items related to extracurricular activities do not. The dimensions revealed by the exploratory factor analysis represent similar constructs to those conceptualized by the Council of Ministers of Education Canada in developing the questionnaire.
Third party discovery in international commercial arbitration
Keywords: International commercial arbitration
Dispute resolution (Law)

In this paper, the author argues that the competing policy objectives of international commercial arbitration; namely, fairness and efficiency, should be entrenched within the laws and rules governing international commercial arbitration, thus requiring arbitrators and the courts that police arbitral procedure to be mindful that efficiency is as equally an important objective as fairness in international commercial arbitration, and ought not to be overlooked. International commercial arbitration combines elements of the civil and common-law traditions and is meant to be an alternative form of dispute resolution. A proper balancing of the policy objectives will result in (i) a body of jurisprudence that acknowledges the civil-law/common-law compromise and properly weighs the competing policy objectives of international commercial arbitration; and (ii) the development of a common theory and vision of international commercial arbitration that will encourage international commercial arbitration to continue the journey toward its informal, global roots.
Democracy in moments of fear: examining law, criminality, terror and other anxieties
Keywords: Fear, Social aspects
Fear, Canada
Fear, Political aspects
Fear, Canada
Democracy, Canada
National security, Canada
Terrorism, Prevention
Terrorism, Canada
Public opinion, Canada
Terrorism, Public opinion

This study examines how in situations of national emergency, security measures increase while civil liberties decrease. The state of crisis during this moment in Canada is articulated through an analysis of Canada's Anti Terrorist Act and various government strategies employed to legitimize this law. The purpose of law during times of national crisis is questioned due to the potential of criminalizing innocent people during this crisis. Various fears induced through the state of emergency are examined in relation to the possibility of governmental manipulation of fears in order to justify increased security measures. The function of fear experienced daily by people in a state of crisis becomes an essential aspect to understand the moment in which we are living. This study investigates the type of citizen that is produced during times of national fear and the potential difficulty for the fearful human to participate critically in a democratic liberal life.
Teacher leadership in schools: a study into the antecedents and nature of teacher leadership in schools
Keywords: Educational leadership, Newfoundland and Labrador
Educational change, Newfoundland and Labrador

The 1990s in Newfoundland and Labrador were particularly turbulent for education. In the midst of a provincial Royal Commission calling for reform in education and a provincial government struggling to manage its finances in the face of a staggering public debt, a province-wide school improvement process initiative was instituted in 1995 with financial help from the federal government. Two responses occurred. For some, the process became a critically important way to cope with reductions in resources while maintaining programmes, while for others the process made them able to cope and develop novel and exciting programmes. This thesis is about the above factors in relation to six rural schools in one school district. The study examines the nature of teacher leadership and then looks at the antecedents and influences on teacher leadership in these schools. This study is unique in that it looks at teacher leadership as it occurs largely outside the traditional teacher leadership roles such as department heads. These schools had few such roles, thus the perspective of teachers as leaders, teachers as followers and principals reflect a genuine style of collegially based and peer recognised forms of teacher leadership. As part of a comprehensive qualitative study of six schools noted for teacher leadership, 28 respondents were interviewed. Teacher leadership often involved the mutual influence between teacher leaders and principals. These influences are discussed from the perspectives of each of the school's gender, seniority, and respondent status as teacher leader, teacher nominator, and administrator. Furthermore, these schools were developed into three models based on unique features found that were more typical of some of these schools as compared with others. While much is to be learned from this study, still more can be learned through further research. The relationship of gender to such roles could be more fully explored. In addition, what are the consequences for teacher leaders who move to other schools? Will they re-establish themselves as leaders? Questions around the role of those replacing teacher leaders that have left would also be worthy of further study. These are just a few questions that my study raises that warrant further exploration.
A history of women religious in the early Irish Church: the hagiographical evidence
Keywords: Monastic and religious life of women, History
Monastic and religious life of women, Ireland
Women, Religious life
Women, Ireland
Celtic Church

This study explores the lives of religious women of the early Celtic Church in Ireland through the eyes of the hagiographers. Few Lives of Irish women saints remain, thus much use has been made of the numerous references to women found in the Lives of men. Other genres of Irish texts have also been consulted. While the Irish hagiographical genre cannot, except rarely, be regarded as an accurate historical record of individuals, it does, at the very least, reflect a view of the world familiar either to the writer or to their sources. It is thus through an analysis of the attitudes and assumptions of these early writers that some idea of the daily lives of holy women emerges. Although much time has been spent during this exploration upon a reconstruction of daily routine through a collation of the data available as an alluvial depository source, considerable time has also been spent examining the use of metaphor in the above genre. This has been particularly helpful in the attempt made here to shed some new light upon the spiritual life of religious women. This latter methodological approach has also been of particular benefit in determining the limits of the power and status enjoyed by these women within Irish society. In the final analysis, it is evident from the picture which emerges that these women played an important and often very active role in the life of the Church.
Curiosity killed the cat: animals in nineteenth-century British culture
Keywords: Ethnology

This dissertation examines the place of animals in nineteenth-century British consumer culture, focusing on pet-keeping practices, zoological exhibitions, popular taxidermy and animals in literature. I show how Victorians interacted with animals in direct and tactile ways, often transforming them into objects of commerce. In the Victorian period, every aspect of the animal, including its capacity to breed, was offered for sale. As consumer goods, animals (alive or dead) could be bartered and exchanged, exhibited and represented. Pet animals were animate commodities and integrated into the routines of daily life; exotic beasts were taken from the wild and encountered across the bars of cages; dead animals were anatomized, sold, used as furniture and as scientific specimens; and creatures described in fiction were visualized and dramatized in abstract ways. These interactions with animals were important articulations of how Victorians understood their society and the forces which shaped it. The animals that were invited into the confines of Victorian society were assigned meanings redolent of major concerns regarding the maintenance of proper gender, social and racial hierarchies, as well as attitudes towards science and death. Relations with animals also exposed the seamy side of Victorian culture and were rife with anxieties. Animals, being feral and alive, rarely conformed to expectations, and even pet-keeping involved discipline and sometimes abuse. Struggles to control animals could undermine their symbolic potential and reveal the cracks and fissures of the Victorian worldview. In exploring Victorian relations with animals, this dissertation connects the histories of consumerism, sentiment, material culture and popular science, and contributes to scholarship on the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Britain. Animals in nineteenth-century Britain inspired the imagination and bore directly on how Victorians understood their society and the times in which they lived.
Traditions in a colonized world: two realities of a First Nation
Keywords: Micmac Indians, Social conditions
Micmac Indians, Newfoundland and Labrador
Micmac Indians, Health and hygiene
Micmac Indians, Newfoundland and Labrador

Set on the rugged south shore of the Island of Newfoundland against a backdrop of ongoing colonial oppression by church and state and despite all odds, Miawpukek First Nation at Conne River, NF, is the only Mi'kmaq Band in the province to achieve federal Status. In less than 20 years, the Chief and Band Council have taken community life from subsistence level to a place where every member is engaged in work and living conditions that are typically mainstream Canadian. This critical ethnography traces their Mi'kmaq historical roots in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and provides a history of more than a century of life from the perspectives of the People. This researcher spent more than a year living in the community and participating in ongoing daily activities, special celebrations and sacred ceremonies. It became profoundly evident that Miawpukek First Nation is, as are most First Nations peoples, caught between two worlds: the Eurocentric world of surviving in the 21st Century and their traditional culture which is based on a spiritual relationship with the land. The question is posited about whether Canada's religious freedoms are being denied as Aboriginal peoples' lands are systematically usurped. Although the nature of housing, education and livelihood has changed for Miawpukek First Nation, there is a spiritual crisisâ€”as evidenced by ongoing alcoholism, abuse, and suicide. Most have lost a traditional understanding of how their universe works and their place in it. However, there is increasing interest among some community members to regain traditional knowledge, language and practices in order to encourage sacred values. To further this endeavour this dissertation includes a brief outline of some traditional philosophy and practices and a listing of plant and animal medicines. A discussion of healing, religion, and traditional understandings which are based on principles of balance and relationships rather than universal laws has important implications for virtually all First Nations peoples. Efforts to achieve healthy individuals in healthy communities can incorporate, but must go beyond, the 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion which does not consider the unique cosmology and needs of Canada's Aboriginal peoples.
A Modern Constitutional State for Chile: The role of judges
Keywords: Constitutional law, Chile
Judicial power, Chile

The 20th century shaped a new model of political organization known as the Modern Constitutional State, which was considered a revolution by attempting to subordinate politics to constitutional law. The purpose of this thesis is to link the explanation about the Chilean judicial mindset - rooted in the Civilian Law Tradition, the Spanish heritage and the codification process under French influence in the 19th century--and the constitutional design of the judiciary with the features of the Modern Constitutional State in order to propose how this model could provide a means to overcome the Latin American patrons of unstable democracies; thin conceptions of constitutionalism, instrumental use of the rule of law and judicial independence understood as an isolation from the political and social life. The core finding is the role of judges to uphold the existence of fundamental constitutional principles that must be respected by every exercise of state power.
A study of aerodynamics in rotary kilns with two burners
Keywords: Chemical engineering

The aerodynamics inside rotary kilns with two burners was investigated isothermally using acid-alkali visualization, hotwire anemometry and numerical simulation methods. A new universal scaling parameter, the combined Craya-Curtet number (Ct'), was defined and used to correlate the flame characteristics in the kiln. A new methodology was developed to simulate the flame characteristics as a function of Ct' and excess air, using acid-alkali visualization. The methodology was supported by numerical simulation and measurements conducted with hotwire anemometry in a wind tunnel specially constructed for this study. The results imply that Ct' and excess air are the most dominant parameters affecting the flame length, and hence the flame shape and temperature. The flame length increases with an increase in Ct' and a decrease in excess air. The presence of a noncondensable gas (NCG) burner reduces the flame length as it enhances the mixing between the flame and combustion air. However, the orientation of the NCG burner may have an insignificant effect on the flame length. An empirical formula was developed to predict the flame length based on these parameters. The experiments conducted in the wind tunnel using hotwire anemometry were used to validate the standard ?â€“? model for simulating the aerodynamics in the kiln with two burners. The model showed a good performance compared to the experimental results. Numerical simulation was then used to support the acid-alkali results and to investigate the effect of Ct' on different kiln characteristics, such as recirculation and decay of axial velocity.