VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
Legal scholarship: an analysis of law professors' research activities in Ontario's English-speaking common law schools
Keywords: Civil law, Ontario
Judicial process

A current discussion of Canadian higher education reveals the increasing importance of research within the university and in government higher education policy. At the same time the political economy of Canadian higher education has been analyzed in terms of a neo-liberal response to economic globalization. This study contributes to that emerging scholarship by focusing specifically on the political economy and academic legal research. The purpose of this study is to describe the current context of law professor's research activities in terms of subject matter, theory and methods, organization, products and funding in order to ascertain if there have been shifts in this context over the past 20 years. The implications of the findings were critically analyzed in terms of a socio-critical framework that considered the relationship between knowledge and professionalism within the context of the political economy of higher education. This study provides important empirical data on the research activities of full-time tenured or tenure-track law professors in Ontario's English-speaking common law schools. It also identifies areas of change and stability over the last 20 years. The study involved the collection and analysis of data from law professors using survey and interview methodology. Some of the findings are unexpected. They show some evidence of influence on law professors' research activities associated in the higher education literature with neo-liberal restructuring. However, in important ways the research context of law professors does not conform to the university research model. The findings suggest that the law school, rather than becoming marginalized in the new university, has consolidated its position in the university. The findings suggest this is largely because of factors not associated with research, such as the strong teaching mission, the deregulated tuition fees that the professional program attracts, and their proximity to a wealthy and entrepreneurial profession that offers potential endowments and donations. Although legal scholars are facing challenges to, and pressures on, their intellectual work, they still enjoy a strong position in the university, not because of their research activity, but in spite of it.
Art museum electronic educational sites: a prolegomenon
Keywords: Art museums, Educational aspects
Art museums, Computer network resources
Internet in education

Art museum education is currently available in several forms: the gallery visit; publications; lectures, workshops; artist-in-residences; of-site programs; kiosks, technological and multimedia-based in-gallery presentations and Web sites. Web sites provide complementary and unique educational possibilities for museum education. An extensive body of research exists regarding all the various aspects of websites—including museum sites—such as their development, design, evaluation, components, features, advances in technology that enable particular educational experiences to be created, etc. However, little research considers either specifically Canadian educational websites or in-depth examinations and analyses of the particular learning strategies and other factors that create the learning experience online. This inquiry explores the above, placing its study within the broad contextual and theoretical framework of research about the relationship between the museum and its online site, the school-museum-website context, as well as learning online, learning about art and learning in the museum.
ESL infusion in pre-service teacher education: a vehicle for exploring the beliefs and practices of teacher educators
Keywords: English language, Study and teaching
Linguistic minorities, Education
Linguistic minorities, Ontario
Inclusive education, Study and teaching
Inclusive education, Ontario
Teachers, Training of
Teachers, Ontario

Key findings suggest that, despite the constructivist and critical approaches to teacher education reflected in much of the data, institutional and structural constraints accompanying a nine-month B. Ed. program delivered to 1300 candidates limit the success of adequately addressing diversity and equity-related initiatives such as ESL Infusion. Additional support should be provided for teacher educators in promoting inclusive practices through revised policies and models of program delivery, recruitment of both teacher candidates and instructors who demonstrate anti-discriminatory stances and practices, and formal education for teacher educators. This thesis analyzes the extent to which three different teacher educators at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), operating within the constraints of their professional circumstances and the scope of their beliefs, promote ESL-inclusive teaching strategies and issues in their pre-service courses as part of an institution-wide ESL Infusion Initiative. Examining ESL infusion in teacher preparation is particularly relevant at a time when increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in Ontario schools coincides with reduction in resources and specialist support for ESL learners. Using critical ethnographic research methods, I use the lens of ESL infusion to consider the beliefs and practices of teacher educators as they relate to ESL-inclusive pedagogy and concepts of effective teacher preparation more broadly.
School and parental correlates of adolescent substance use
Keywords: Teenagers, Drug use
Parent and teenager
High school students, Drug use
High school students, Attitudes
Academic achievement
Teacher-student relationships

This quantitative study assessed the association of various school factors with adolescent substance use, and whether the quality of the adolescent---parental relationship moderated this association. Using the Center for Addiction and Mental Health's (CAMH) 2003 Ontario School Drug Use Survey, data was analyzed from 3,152 adolescent students between the ages of 12 and 20. Logistic regression analysis showed that a number of academic factors are positively (school safety, school belonging) and negatively (academic orientation, views on classes and teachers) associated with adolescents' use of alcohol, cannabis, hard drugs, and a cannabis use problem indicator. Further, the perceived quality of the adolescent/parental relationship appears to moderate the association between certain school factors and cannabis use, hard drug use, and problem level cannabis use. Results are discussed in terms of their integration with existing substance use literature, their implications for adolescent development and substance use prevention programs.
Multiculturalism: A discourse analysis of the Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Canadian Heritage websites
Keywords: Multiculturalism, Canada
Multiculturalism, Information services
Multiculturalism, Canada
Multiculturalism, Information resources
Multiculturalism, Canada

Using discourse analysis, this study explores how Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) and Canadian Heritage explain the idea of multiculturalism on their official websites. Both websites avoid setting a clear definition of multiculturalism. Instead, they assign the task of defining multiculturalism to readers. The CIC website relies heavily on legal frameworks, such as the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, in explaining the concept. The Canadian Heritage website juxtaposes history, policies, programs, and events that are relevant to multiculturalism. Such inconsistent explanations of multiculturalism are problematic, potentially sending mixed signals. The websites also suggest that the present condition of multiculturalism is significantly better than its past iteration, describing current Canadian society as a place where many different cultural and ethnic groups live and work together in harmony and tolerance. But neither website describes contemporary controversies and difficult issues, nor the relationship between the government and those issues.
Mediation as an alternative dispute resolution mechanism in international joint ventures
Keywords: Joint ventures
Dispute resolution (Law)
Mediation

International Joint Ventures are said to be vital to business. Despite a seemingly unbroken string of International Joint Venture success-stories, figures reveal that they are often disappointing enterprises that have a far shorter life-expectancy than originally anticipated. On the other hand, Mediation is a highly popular but in commercial circumstances seldom used Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism that—in theory—seems perfect to solve disputes among partners of International Joint Ventures. This paper first focuses on International Joint Ventures and their stunning underperformance. Second, possible remedies for solving disputes within International Joint Ventures are analyzed. Mediation as an Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism is thereby the centre of attention. Finally, some examples of possible Mediation Clauses are given. The thesis comes to the conclusion that the partners in International Joint Ventures would gain from including formalized Mediation Clauses in their agreements and that many or at least some of the performance problems of these highly regarded legal entities could effectively be solved.
Satisfaction factors reported by health care workers engaged in computer -based learning
Keywords: Computer-assisted instruction
Education, Data processing
Programmed instruction
Educational technology

This study explored the variables affecting satisfaction with computer-based learning for health care workers. The individual differences and their relationship to satisfaction that were explored included readiness for self-directed learning, computer anxiety, prior experience with computers, motivation, metacognition and cognitive style. Satisfaction was examined from the flow perspective, a perspective that focuses on active involvement and intrinsic enjoyment. A correlational research design was used and structural equation modeling was employed to verify the reliability of variable indicators and establish relationships among the variables. Three hospital sites and 185 participants took part in the study. Participants represented a cross section of occupational groups and ages consistent with participating hospital demographics. Although gender had no effect on satisfaction, other demographic variables such as position did have an effect. Those participants working in Service and Clerical roles reported higher levels of satisfaction than their clinical colleagues. Study results also showed that satisfaction with computer-based learning is connected with the degree of control learners perceive they have, and the extent to which they are challenged when using a program. In addition, as shown in the correlational analysis and structural equation model, and of great significance in understanding satisfaction, are the attitudinal characteristics of the adult learner. The structural model showed conclusively that self-direction was linked to lower computer anxiety and motivational facets such as intrinsic goal orientation, computing self-concept, and, unexpectedly, metacognitive self-regulation, were associated with less anxiety and higher satisfaction. These findings confirm the importance for organizations to assess and address learner needs and differences in the design and administration of computer-based learning programs.
Aboriginal voices and the politics of representation in Canadian introductory sociology textbooks
Keywords: Indians of North America, Canada
Racism in textbooks, Canada
Indigenous peoples, Study and teaching
Indigenous peoples, Canada

In this study 77 Canadian introductory sociology textbooks ranging in date from 1961 to 2002 are analysed for the way that they present Aboriginal peoples. This analysis is informed by critical theorists such as Michel Foucault, Dorothy Smith, Jean Baudrillard and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, as well as by the writings of a good number of Aboriginal writers. In the thesis, special focus is placed on three subjects: the sociological myth of culturally determined Inuit elder suicide; the potlatch and the 1990 Oka confrontation. In this work it is argued that as the discipline of sociology developed in Canada, the writers/editors of these introductory sociology textbooks denied Aboriginal voice in the production of knowledge in these texts. In so doing, they portrayed Aboriginal peoples in limited, often distorted ways.
Women teachers' authority: holding the line, or in the line of fire?
Keywords: Women teachers, Ontario
Elementary school teachers, Ontario
Authority
Teacher-principal relationships
Teacher-student relationships

The idea that teachers ought to control their students and be controlled by their supervisors still permeates elementary school culture. Women teachers who use their authority to teach "against the grain" (Cochran-Smith, 1991; Simon, 1992) may be subject to negative behaviour from students and others. This study explored teachers' authority through interviews and observations of five women teachers in two elementary schools in Ontario. It found that students complied with most teachers' requests and student resistance was most often viewed as problematic. Boys and girls sometimes resisted in different ways, and teachers did not often engage to find out why students resisted. This study found that teachers were concerned about lack of consultation by administrators. Participants' attempts to raise issues through dialogue with administration provoked conflict and resistance. These findings suggest that teaching teachers to engage constructively with conflict might increase the possibilities in teaching for democratic citizenship.
Group rights in culture --- A universal claim for communal cultural property
Keywords: Cultural property
Right of property

Part of the debate about protection of cultural diversity is constructed around the term cultural property (CP). CP employs the application of property rights as they relate to culture, whereas particularly in the context of Indigenous cultures the claim for group rights is made. This thesis examines the debate about group rights in culture and, by applying the analytical metaphor of property as a bundle of rights, it will distinguish the element of the right holder. Based on the communal nature of culture, this thesis will present the argument that rights in culture shall be held by the group in the context of both Indigenous and western cultures. Furthermore, it refers to the increasing recognition of groups in primary sources of international law. Finally, it revisits philosophical theories of property and by adding a subjective element to these theories tries to open them towards the idea of communal ownership.
Realms of beginning teachers' emotional work
Keywords: Teaching, Psychological aspects
Emotions
First tear teachers, Psychology
Emotional intelligence

Learning to teach demands greater attention to the emotional domain than has previously been granted. The purpose of this study is to explore the emotional experiences of beginning teachers as they learn to teach. The focus is to understand the complexities of emotions experienced by beginning teachers and the relationship between emotions and the process of learning to teach. Findings from this study represent a conceptual shift in how we understand the process of learning to teach. The findings from this study suggest that emotional knowledge is an important dimension of teacher development. A taxonomy of emotions experienced by beginning teachers is presented as it relates to specific contexts of the beginning teacher's work. Findings suggest that the characteristics of beginning teachers and the conditions of their work influence the relationship between context and emotions. Both negative and positive emotions can have positive effects on teacher learning. Through the construction of emotional conditions in the classroom, engagement in emotionally symbiotic interactions, and regulation of emotions, beginning teachers develop emotional knowledge that is essential in learning to teach. The implications of this study can inform future teacher education and teacher induction practices. Case study is the research methodology utilized in this qualitative study. A multiple case study was conducted with six second-year teachers over a five-month period in a rural Southwestern Ontario secondary school during the 2001--2002 school year. An in-depth investigation of the cases was gathered through interviews, observations, and field notes within the various contexts of the teachers' work. Frequent member checks confirmed findings and informed subsequent data collection. Data were collected and analyzed simultaneously in an emergent theme research design. As themes developed, data were sorted and re-sorted into patterns and themes and the content of subsequent data collection were restructured. A limiting condition of this study is that the research was conducted within a single secondary school.
Centre-of-gravity control for a Mars Rover chassis with multiple degrees of freedom
Keywords: Roving vehicles (Astronautics), Automatic control

The CoG controller presented here is particularly effective for step climbing rovers whose wheels all maintain contact with the ground at all times. Implementing the CoG controller in simulation showed dramatic improvements in step-climbing ability. The CoG controller was able to increase the height of obstacle surmountable from hard ground by a factor of 2 to 3 (to heights as much as 30 cm), and increase the height surmountable from soil by 30% to 40%. To improve step-climbing results on soil further, traction control would be needed in addition to the CoG controller. This work presents a centre-of-gravity (CoG) controller which aims to increase rover mobility over step obstacles. The controller is based on a new concept presented here, the Contact-Angle Adjusted Support Pattern (or CAASP). The CAASP utilizes wheel-ground contact angles to place the CoG such that weight acting on wheels encountering difficult local terrain is reduced.
Flight control design and simulation for aggressive nonlinear maneuvering
Keywords: Aerospace engineering

In aggressive nonlinear flight maneuvers, conventional linear time-invariant based flight control design approaches may not perform well. In this thesis, a nonlinear flight control design method, namely state-dependent Riccati equation, is investigated as an alternative to the conventional approach in these situations. Meanwhile, linear quadratic regulator theory is used as the conventional benchmark. The two approaches are compared through simulation of a dive recovery and collision avoidance maneuver on a flight training device. It was demonstrated in the experimental flight scenario that the chosen nonlinear approach was able to yield superior performance to the conventional benchmark.
Reconceptualizing development from women's standpoint in colonial relations
Keywords: Women, History
Women, Social conditions
Feminism, History

This study aims at reconceptualizing "Development" through investigation of local forms of social organization that articulate the work of women in Canada to the Development regime. The study exposes how historically-anchored social relations operated through the twentieth century to variously organize the lives of women, reappropriate their caring labour and reproduce distortions of difference among them. The investigation that formed the basis of this inquiry took as its starting point the "standpoint of women" as elaborated by sociologist and feminist thinker Dorothy E. Smith. Thirty-seven people who experienced the death of a family member on Lake Simcoe in the vicinity of the Town of Georgina between 1950 and 1999 were interviewed. Sixteen women, all of whom had each experienced the death of their male partner on the lake, were selected for indepth interviews. These interviews explored the grieving, self-care and life-reordering work each woman was required to do and did in the wake of her partner's death, and how the event of the death operated to articulate her work to larger social, economic, and political processes comprising the ruling apparatus. The interviews brought into focus similarities and differences in women's experiences, and illuminated the relationship of local peoples' colonial and imperial past to their globalized and globalizing present. Information gathered through interviewing guided subsequent investigation into institutional processes that shaped local experiences. The investigator used institutional ethnography as the mode of inquiry into a series of institutional work sites: (1) the Trent-Severn Waterway and the Indian Claims Commission; (2) the coroner's inquest into the drowning deaths of five Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen and the print media; (3) Hospice Georgina/Chippewa of Georgina Island volunteer caregiving services and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Social Services health care reform; (4) Transit Georgina and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, Community Transportation Action Program. In addition to interviews, methods of investigation included historical archival research and analysis of organizational documents and other contemporaneous textual forms and knowledge practices.
Utterly erotic: Painting the male body and the erotic talk of the female spectator
Keywords: Sexual excitement
Women, Sexual behavior
Men in art, Psychological aspects
Women, Attitudes
Conversation

In this thesis I examine conditions in which women who desire men express their erotic interests. Specifically, I discuss how images of the male body in paintings of mine elicited erotic responses and conversation among women who participated in focus groups that I convened. In contrast to claims in popular discourse, I show that visual encounters might form an important condition of stimulating women's erotic talk. I use a poststructuralist theoretical framework and methodology to examine how my paintings facilitated such discursive moments and I discuss the pedagogical value of these conversations. I show that with talk, or enactments of heterosexual desire in the company of other women, female sexuality is being contested, constructed, produced and proliferated. I argue that, in moments such as these, a pedagogy of sexuality is taking place where the notion of 'heterosexual desire' is reformulated, reconfigured and expanded upon.