VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
L'enseignante francophone vivant en situation de mariage exogame
Keywords: French-Canadians, Ontario
Women teachers, Ontario
Husband and wife, Ontario
Parent and child, Ontario
Husbands, Language
Husbands, Ontario
Wives, Language
Wives, Ontario
Mothers, Language
Mothers, Ontario
Fathers, Language
Fathers, Ontario
Children, Language
Children, Ontario

Ce memoire de maitrise porte sur le double role d'agentes de reproduction linguistique et culturelle de six enseignantes francophones qui sont mariees avec des anglophones et qui parlent francais a leurs enfants. L'etude qualitative, effectuee au moyen d'entrevues semi-dirigees avec les femmes et leurs conjoints, s'est deroulee dans le Centre de l'Ontario. L'objectif principal de l'analyse a ete de voir si les experiences professionnelles de ces enseignantes aupres d'une clientele scolaire heterogene sur le plan linguistique influencent la facon dont elles transmettent la langue et la culture francaises a leurs enfants au sein d'un foyer linguistiquement mixte. L'examen des discours des informatrices devoile que les participantes ont une vision traditionaliste du francais en tant qu'enseignante et une vision mondialisante en tant que mere par rapport au contact du francais et de l'anglais. Elles utilisent des strategies de reproduction communes au travail et des strategies plus individuelles en milieu familial.
Principals' responses to interpersonal conflict occurring in secondary schools
Keywords: School principals, Attitudes
Conflict management
Interpersonal conflict
Educational leadership

Interpersonal conflicts occurred in all secondary schools that participated in the study. Three categories of conflict emerged: interpersonal conflicts between teachers, interpersonal conflicts between school principals and teachers, and interpersonal conflicts between teachers and students. This study examines how principals deal with interpersonal conflicts occurring in secondary schools. The impetus for the study was based on the researcher's own experiences as a secondary school principal. In my experience as a school principal, it became evident that a considerable portion of my time and energy was devoted to managing interpersonal conflict among stakeholders. For this reason, I believe that the management of interpersonal conflict is an essential component of school leadership in secondary schools. Participants were selected from 6 secondary schools located in a single school district in Eastern Canada. A qualitative research methodology was employed to investigate two social constructs: school leadership, and interpersonal conflict found in those secondary schools. A total of nineteen interviews are conducted with school principals and secondary teachers. Implications for practice focus on the nature of conflict found in secondary schools, sources of those conflicts, strategies for resolving interpersonal conflict, and approaches to leadership in managing interpersonal conflict. Implications for future research are also suggested. It is evident that interpersonal conflict pervades the cultural landscape of secondary schools. The results of the study suggest that school principals varied their style of school leadership depending on the nature and frequency of the interpersonal conflict encountered amongst stakeholders. It appears that principals typically adhere to aspects of participative leadership in the early stages of interpersonal conflict; however, if resolution to conflict is not achievable in this way then school principals become managerial in their approach to school leadership.
Individual rights in the unionized workforce conflict between minority needs and majority interests
Keywords: Labor laws and legislation, Ontario
Civil rights, Ontario
Labor unions, Law and legislation
Labor unions, Ontario

This thesis examines potential problems caused by the interplay between the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Ontario Labour Relations Act in unionized workplaces. Due to the majoritarian structure of unions, the interests of minorities may be ignored. This can be problematic for a human rights complainant who is in need of accommodations that interfere with the labour relations rights of other employees, as the union may therefore not wish to accommodate. However, due to forums jurisprudence, the union may be the 'gatekeeper' that must be approached by the employee. The paper looks firstly at the individual nature of human rights and contrasts this with the representative function of the union. It then explains areas of potential conflict, the role of forums rules, and the issues caused by Labour Board jurisprudence that is overly deferential to unions. Recommendations for change are made in the conclusion of the paper.
An educational remix: global youth and/in the academy
Keywords: Youth
College students
Education, Higher

This project seeks to explore the relations between current modes of academic practice and production which student's have access to alongside the "global youth" who have (potentially) called the conventionalities of academic practice and production into question in a significant way. While "Cultural Studies" has historically attempted to make "(sub)culture" its object of study in the academy, this project addresses the problematic of including and incorporating a technologically charged (in this case "youth") culture into academic practices. My focus is on DJ-ing and "remix" as specific aspects of youth culture. I am suggesting that "remix" could be an academic practice for students but that the contemporary academy has not tuned in to this practice as having methodological weight or potential pedagogic significance.
Pilot testing a causal model that includes clusters of parent, child, teacher, and classroon variables, to explore the mechanisms underlying class size effects
Keywords: Class size, Ontario
Children, Attitudes
Children, Ontario
Parents, Attitudes
Parents, Ontario
Kindergarten teachers, Attitudes
Kindergarten teachers, Ontario
Academic achievement, Ontario
Kindergarten, Ontario

The purpose of this study was to explore the mechanisms underlying the effects of class size at the kindergarten level. The study began with the development of a systems-based, causal model that included clusters of parent, child, teacher, and classroom variables derived from the literature. Multiple Regressions were then used to test the 'fit' between the data collected for the study and the causal model. Data were provided by 9 kindergarten teachers from 16 classrooms in southern Ontario, 117 of their students (53.8% females), and their parents. Instruments used to collect data included teacher and parent questionnaires, the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale-Revised (Harms, Clifford, Cryer, 1998), Form L M of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (Dunn Dunn, 1981), and the transcribed responses to the statement, "tell me about kindergarten from the time you arrive at school till the time you leave" (Pelletier, 1999). The results showed that there was a better fit between the data and the paths in the causal model flowing from the clusters of teacher and classroom variables as compared to the parent and child variables. Results also illustrated the pervasive nature of class size effects. Not only did class size explain some variance in a number of variables contained within the causal model as predicted, class size subsequently interacted with those same variables to modify other variables. This trajectory of interactions suggests that class size effects are cumulative. Moreover, class size effects were found to be modified by other variables in the model. Given the small sample size, findings from the study should be regarded as a preliminary test of the proposed model.
De facto specificity: Some proposals for change
Keywords: Subsidies, Law and legislation
Foreign trade regulation
Free trade

The de facto Specificity test has been the source of many disputes and controversies because it is fraught with ambiguities leading to agency discretion. This thesis will argue that further clarification is necessary by highlighting some of these ambiguities and the methodologies taking advantage of them. It first looks at the methodologies determining whether an enterprise or industry has received a disproportionately large amount of the subsidy and argues that future methodologies should include a comparison to an external benchmark. Second, it discusses the lack of weight given to the contextual factors of the extent of diversification of economic activities and the length of time the program has been in use and argues that further weight should be given. Finally, it looks at the lack of definition given to "enterprise", "industry" and "group of enterprises or industries" and suggests that classification systems be used to provide standards.
Visiting pasts: ethics, contested histories, and representations of female delinquency in Ontario
Keywords: Female juvenile delinquents, Ontario
Juvenile justice, Administration of, Ontario
Juvenile delinquency, Sex differences
Juvenile delinquency, Ontario
Social control

In this thesis project, I examine representations of female youth ‘delinquency’ during the post-Second World War period in Ontario (1945–1960). By examining particular cultural forms and practices in the print media and the law, my aims are two-fold: First, following the work of Sangster (2002), I seek to expose how representations of female youth delinquency were part of an organized symbolic culture that mediated social relations between young women and the legal system, particularly the Ontario Training School for Girls in Galt (OTSG-Galt). Second, drawing substantially upon the work of Hannah Arendt, I raise ethical questions about the ways in which female subjects are constituted through various representational forms, as well as highlight the need for a different kind of account of the female subject; one which leads to a critical consciousness of the law as well as to new forms of self/other relations.
Supporting elementary teachers with professional development to integrate technology into their teaching practice
Keywords: Computer-assisted instruction
Elementary school teachers, In-service training
Teaching, Aids and devices
Educational technology

This study ambitiously foregrounds for Ontario school districts key elements that need to be embedded in a professional development plan in order for classroom teachers to successfully integrate technology into their classroom curriculum. The research conducted followed the case study and action research models based on my direct relationships with four teachers and their experiences in receiving professional development support in order to integrate technology into their classroom curriculum. My role in providing professional development varied in format and degree but was consistently based on the individual needs of the teacher. The individual case studies narrate each teacher's journey of professional development over the course of an academic year based on data gathered through interviews, surveys, observational field notes, and a quantified empirical rubric. Data pertaining to the professional development initiatives undertaken by several Ontario school districts is also presented. Hence, this study brings to the foreground key factors to consider when planning professional development opportunities for teachers.
The effects of examinee motivation on multiple-choice item calibration and test construction
Keywords: Educational tests and measurements, Design and construction
Item response theory
Psychological tests, Design and construction
Motivation (Psychology)

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a false assumption regarding the motivation of examinees on multiple-choice item calibration and test construction. A simulation study was conducted using data generated based on two models of item responses (the 3-parameter logistic item response model alone, and in combination with Wise's Examinee Persistence model (1996a)). Items were calibrated using a Bayesian method. For the conditions studied, the item parameter estimates based on responses from poorly motivated examinees were biased and more variable than estimates based on responses from a "normal" group of examinees. Bias in item parameter estimates resulted in bias in item information estimates and test information estimates for optimally constructed tests. The implications of the results for test development companies, examinees and users of test results are discussed.
Black teacher, white spaces: negotiating identity across the classroom
Keywords: Teachers, Black, Ontario
Racism, Ontario
Discrimination in education, Ontario

This paper examines the lived experiences of six Black anti-racist educators as they engage in dialogues on race in classrooms within a public school district where the students and teachers are predominately white. The Black teacher is often in the position of being an anti-racist text simply by their bodily presence within the school. Their existence in the space of whiteness at once extends the definition of 'teacher' to include Black bodies, while it opens possibilities of who can have knowledge, and who can have authority. Using an anti-colonial lens and drawing on principles of Black feminist epistemology, this project aims to let the lived experience of Black educators serve as the source of knowledge. It examines some of the challenges and supports which Black educators encounter in their practice of anti-racist pedagogy, and concludes by offering suggestions for Black educators, school districts and teacher education programs.
A proposal for the design of a specific tax for mining companies: The Peruvian experience
Keywords: University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Mining corporations, Taxation
Mining corporations, Peru

This paper deals with the discussion whether the Peruvian mining tax regime requires a specific mining tax. It argues that the proposal made by the Peruvian's Parliament for the creation of an excess profits tax cannot be considered a suitable model to tax profits obtained by the mining sector, since it misunderstands the characteristics of the excess profits tax and windfall profit tax enacted by the U.S. in which it is supposedly based. Subsequently, it proposes a specific tax for mining activities in Peru based on the mining taxes levied in the Province of Ontario, Canada, and Chile, and part of the mining taxation structure already in force in Peru. Finally, it emphasizes that any serious attempt to propose a specific tax for mining activities must respect the enforcement and liability of the legal stability agreements entered into by the Peruvian government and the mining companies.
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake): a descriptive bibliography
Keywords: Canadian literature

At a time when female and Native authors worked under significant social and economic constraints, E. Pauline Johnson (1861--1913) not only built a remarkably successful career, she managed to use her platform in order to challenge the male-dominated Eurocentric society from which she drew her audience. This popular author's literary stature has not always been certain, but today she is the "most widely anthologized Native poet in North America" (qtd. in Gerson, 2002) and the subject of numerous dissertations and journal articles. With the publication of Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake (2000), Gerson and Strong-Boag articulated a new approach to Johnson scholarship and provided, for the first time, an extensive listing of Johnson's ephemeral publications, manuscripts, and untraced works. Building on their scholarship, this project offers a detailed bibliographic treatment and publishing history for each of Johnson's separately published titles.
Wider stakeholder interests in reorganization: policy considerations and comparative approaches in U.S. and Canadian law
Keywords: Consolidation and merger of corporations, Law and legislation
Consolidation and merger of corporations, United States
Consolidation and merger of corporations, Law and legislation
Consolidation and merger of corporations, Canada
Stockholders, Legal status, laws, etc
Stockholders, United States
Stockholders, Legal status, laws, etc
Stockholders, Canada

In this study I research the theoretical rationales and the literature on the policy considerations of social stakeholders' influence in reorganization proceedings. I argue that there are reasonable foundations for the courts to adhere to the principle of interpretation that maintains that, while secured creditor's fundamental rights can be safeguarded, social entitlements must also be taken in consideration, in insolvency proceedings. I present what these 'social entitlements' are and also what are the reasons for the expansion of their prerogatives within bankruptcy law. After the theoretical discussion, I exemplify in the Canadian and U.S. case law how this principle has already been employed in court reasoning. I propose that the rule of considering social stakeholders in reorganization proceedings can satisfactorily balance the Interests of traditional creditors and of social stakeholders.
Effects of impurities on deuterium retention in single crystal tungsten
Keywords: Nuclear fusion
Deuterium
Tungsten

The role of impurities in the retention of deuterium in single crystal tungsten implanted at room temperature has been investigated. To avoid the effects of air exposure, the D+ implantation and the subsequent D retention measurement using thermal desorption spectroscopy were performed in the same vacuum system without breaking vacuum. For fluences of 1 x 1023 D/m2 prominent desorption peaks were observed during TDS, one at sim;400 K and one at sim;600 K. The use of liquid nitrogen cooling of the ion beam aperture led to a reduction of the background gas impurities (O and C containing molecules) in the vacuum chamber, which consequently almost completely eliminated the post-irradiation TDS peak at sim;400 K. Reduction of these gas impurities by sim;50% has led to a reduction of sim;20% in the total deuterium retention. Furthermore, weakly bound deuterium in the W specimens was released when the vacuum system was mildly baked to sim;360 K before TDS, resulting in an approximately 50% reduction in the total amount of retained D. It was also found that post-implantation time delay before performing TDS leads to a significant loss of the implanted deuterium; sim;25% of the implanted deuterium escapes from the W specimens during the first 24 hours and sim;55% after about eight weeks.
Information brokers and technology use: a case study of a high-tech company
Keywords: Social networks
Business communication

Despite the recent interest of managers, consultants, and scholars on how social networks contribute to the flow of information in organizations, there is little understanding about the positions of actors in these networks and their contribution to information flow. The aim of the study has been to identify actors who occupy central positions in the information network, referred to as the information brokers, and to determine the characteristics of these individuals in terms of their demographic attributes, use of information sources, social contact, and use of technology. A case study of a high-tech company was conducted and two groups within the company were compared: software development and client services. A multi-method data collection approach was employed that included a web-questionnaire, interviews, observations, and documentary sources. Although workers used human and documentary sources to the same extent, individual human sources were ranked among the most frequently used. Particularly, colleagues in the work group and organization were pivotal in providing advice. Furthermore, network analysis was used to identify individuals who were critical for the flow of information---information centrals. Individuals in the software development group were more likely to be information centrals. Generally, they obtained information faster than the client services group because members were connected to more actors and had stronger ties to these actors. Managers in the client services group were more likely to be information centrals and to play a role in the information flow both within and across groups. The influence of formal structure depended on the group structure, the tasks, and the cultural milieu. What distinguished information brokers in the client services group was the greater use of both human and documentary sources. All workers accessed sources primarily online. However, information brokers showed greater use of email and instant messaging for acquiring information within the group and organization. Although information centrals and peripherals socialized equally, centrals participated more in informal exchanges such as face-to-face encounters, technical discussions, and group meetings. The findings provide insights into the workings of high-tech companies and underscore the relevance of information brokers for information flow.
Language switching in the thinking processes underlying second-language composing task performance among mandarin-english bilinguals in the context of computer studies
Keywords: Bilingualism
Code switching (Linguistics)
Interference (Linguistics)
English language, Study and teaching

The dialectical relationship between language and thought has been closely scrutinized from various perspectives in philosophy and psychology. The present dissertation examines this relationship in the context of bilingualism. Numerous studies have shown that bilinguals frequently switch between their two languages in the process of composing tasks in a second language. However, little is known about when and why bilingual people switch languages in these situations, and how language switching relates to their thought processes as well as to their success in second-language tasks. I examined, within a theoretical framework of language of and for thought, the qualities of bilingual thinking demonstrated by bilingual students during their verbal reports on the performance of their second language tasks with a view to identifying the nature of language switching in their cognitive processing. 20 Mandarin/English bilinguals with different levels of second language (English) proficiency studying at a college in Ontario produced concurrent verbal reports while composing two types of second-language tasks in the context of their computer science studies. A retrospective verbal report was also elicited from each participant during a follow-up interview. Their written texts were evaluated by independent college course instructors based on a task-relevant scale. The think-aloud protocols were analyzed in terms of idea units and language switching. I analyzed the thinking contexts and propositional structures underlying specific types of thought, and participants' perceptions of these, using two-way repeated ANOVA and correlations, to assess differences and commonalities. Different qualities of thinking prompted different uses of first and second languages. The extent of the first language use correlated positively to success in the second language tasks. The findings further suggest that language switching in composing during second-language task performance relates to levels of cognitive demands associated with specific categories of thought. These findings challenge certain theoretical assumptions about the factors influencing language switching and provide important implications for theories, research, and pedagogical practices vis-a-vis bilingual cognition and second-language education in general. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)