VictorJuiz/thesis huggingface dataset:
An investigation of teacher role definitions in educating Inuit students in Nunavik
Keywords: Inuit, Education
Inuit, Québec (Province)
Eskimos, Canada
Indians of North America, Education
Indians of North America, Québec (Province)
Language and culture, Québec (Province)
Group identity, Canada
Educational equalization, Québec (Province)
Teacher, Training of
Teacher, Nunavik (Québec)

Research in the field of Aboriginal education suggests that a strong base in the primary culture and language predisposes students to develop biculturalism, bilingualism, and eventual academic success (Annahatak, 1994; Eriks-Brophy & Crago, 1994; Crago, Annahatak, & Ningiuruvik, 1993). Recent studies propose that Aboriginal students do become bilingual and bicultural (Fuzessy, 1997; Barnhardt, 1994). Nevertheless, academic achievement among Inuit and Aboriginal students remains weak. These students remain prone to failure (Mackay & Miles, 1995; Rains, 1992). Biculturalism and bilingualism do not guarantee success in school based skills and knowledge. This study examines possible contributing factors to this divergence between expected and actual educational outcomes. Cummins (1996a) posits a model that outlines many of the social and educational conditions favourable to the creation of opportunities for student empowerment. It highlights the essential role of educational structures and the teacher in providing opportunities for the empowerment or the disabling of minority students. Battiste (1998), McLaren (1997), Sleeter (1993), and Willinsky (1990) provide specific suggestions and examples concerning the anti-racist and empowering classroom. This recent work in Aboriginal, critical, and anti-racism education along with the Cummins model build upon poststructural theory and constitute the conceptual framework of this research project. The guiding research question addressed in this study is the following: In what ways and to what extent do the teachers of the Kativik School Board create contexts of empowerment in their interactions with Inuit students? In addressing this question, qualitative data relating to the theoretical framework were gathered. Former Kativik School Board teachers completed individual interviews, short answer questionnaires, and Likert scale questionnaires. These were transcribed and coded for analysis. A public documents analysis determined cultural reference points for the study. The data suggest that teacher role definitions may have both positive and negative effects on Inuit students through their classroom and community interactions. Teachers may not be aware of the negative ways in which their role definitions affect student outcomes. The data also suggest that the broad and encompassing scope of the framework is both its greatest strength and weakness.
A longitudinal examination of heritability in the developing dental arcade
Keywords: Teeth, Abnormalities
Mouth, Abnormalities

This study examined the relative influences of genetics and the environment in the determination of variation in dental arcade size and shape in an upper middle class modern Canadian population of European ancestry. Heritability provides an estimate of the proportion of genetic, as distinct from environmental, contributions to a quantitative trait's variation within a population. The relative importance of genetics in defining dental arcade size and shape was examined in adults who had achieved their functional permanent dentition, and in the longitudinal patterns of the dental arcade during development. The sample for this project (142 families, N=632 individuals, and 85 additional sibships, N = 214 individuals) was taken from the files of the Burlington Growth Centre, in the Faculty of Dentistry, at the University of Toronto. Thirty-two dimensions were derived from the dental casts of parents and their children at the age stages of 4 years, 14 years, and 16â€“21 years. Dental arcade measurements involved the determination of three proportions (1) arcade widths; (2) arcade depths and chords; (3) arcade size ratios.
A CAD-free and a CAD-based geometry control system for aerodynamic shape optimization
Keywords: Aerodynamics, Mathematics
Engineering design, Mathematical models

The performance of an aerodynamic shape optimization routine is greatly dependent on its geometry control system. This system must accurately parameterize the initial geometry and generate a flexible set of design variables for the optimization cycle. It must also generate new instances of the geometry based on the changes to the design variables dictated by the optimization routine. It is also desirable to generate a new surface grid with the same topology as the original grid in response to changes in the geometry. This new surface grid can be used to perturb the associated volume grid. This thesis develops two geometry control systems, a CAD free system and a CATIA V5 CAD-based system. The two systems provide practical tools for aerodynamic optimization. They also provide a basis for comparing CAD-free and CAD-based systems and understanding additional issues that need to be addressed in order to develop reliable optimization systems.
Russia's accession to the WTO: implications for telecommunications regulation
Keywords: Telecommunication, Law and legislation
Telecommunication, Russia (Federation)

The telecommunications industry is one the most dynamic and fastest expanding sectors in the Russian Federation nowadays. It is of cardinal importance to focus on Russian telecommunications industry in view of Russia's imminent accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and identify the main gaps, problems and suggest further corrections for this accession. My research deals with Russia's system of regulating its telecommunication industry in the context of its application for entry into the WTO.
Public-private partnerships and municipal water sector reform in Ontario
Keywords: Municipal water supply, Ontario
Sewage disposal, Law and legislation
Sewage disposal, Ontario
Drinking water, Law and legislation
Drinking water, Ontario

The use of public-private partnerships to deliver municipal water services is controversial due to the special importance of water to public health and the environment. In Ontario, the establishment of public-private partnerships in this sector has been slowed by the Walkerton tragedy, the public inquiry into its causes, and the subsequent enactment of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002 and the Sustainable Water and Sewage Systems Act, 2002. Critics have suggested that these statutes will force many municipalities to privatize their water infrastructure. This thesis argues that the prospects for public-private partnerships in the Ontario water sector are modest due to the unique characteristics of the municipal water infrastructure, concerns over opportunistic behaviour in this politically sensitive sector, the emphasis on public accountability in the new legislation, and the broad powers given to the province to both interfere with water pricing and to alter contracts between municipalities and private firms.
Quality of life and its predictors in children with stroke
Keywords: Cerebrovascular disease in children, Social aspects
Sick children, Social conditions

Stroke is unexpected during childhood years. It occurs, however, in 6 per 100,000 infants and children per year and its effect on quality of life has not been assessed. The purpose of this study was to examine overall and domain specific quality of life and its predictors in children surviving stroke. One hundred and twelve children surviving arterial ischemic (AIS) and cerebral sinovenous thrombosis (CSVT) stroke between 1994--2001 were assessed with the Centre for Health Promotion's (CHP) Quality of Life Profile (QOL-Profile), adapted for children. Children were assessed at a mean of 3 years (range 1--7 years) after stroke. The QOL-Profile is a 54-item questionnaire that assesses quality of life in the domains of physical, psychological and spiritual health (QOL Being); home, social and community environment (QOL Belonging); and school, leisure and daily activities (QOL Becoming). Quality of life is measured in terms of importance and enjoyment within each domain and scores reflect the relationship between these two factors. Correlation among QOL, neurological deficits, and intellectual and functional deficits at a similar interval from stroke were examined. Predictor variables were tested using hierarchical regression. The results showed that cognitive/behaviour impairment was the most significant correlate of reduced QOL scores (p
Goals, revisions, and teachers' comments: case studies of five adult ESL writers
Keywords: English language, Study and teaching
English language, Rhetoric
Second language acquisition
Report writing, Study and teaching
Writing
Academic writing, Study and teaching

This thesis examines the relationship between the writing goals expressed by five adult ESL (English as a Second Language) students enrolled in a pre-university academic preparation ESL course, their teachers' comments on their first drafts, and the revisions the students made to their second drafts. The students' writing samples, interview and stimulated recall protocols, and goal summaries were used to: categorize the comments and revisions, describe the relationship between the students' revisions and the teachers' comments, examine the goals the students focus on, and determine the relationship between the students' goals and their revisions of their compositions. I found that the students' goals and the teachers' comments focused mostly on language concerns (i.e. lexicogrammar). The students revised according to their teachers' comments, yet remained dissatisfied with the quality of their writing, confused about the â€œcorrectâ€ writing process, and torn between using their L1 (first language) in their composing process and concentrating on â€œthinking in English.â€
Vexatious behaviour in the workplace: an exploration of aggression, harassment, and emotional abuse
Keywords: Psychology, Industrial
Interpersonal relations
Offenses against the person
Harassment
Psychological abuse
Employee rights
Sociometry

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the phenomenon of vexatious behaviour in the workplace by drawing on my experience to inform an understanding of the pervasiveness of aggression, harassment, and emotional abuse in the workplace. My study does not include an exploration of harmful behaviours motivated by discrimination and including such grounds as gender and race. I use the term "vexatious behaviour" to describe a manner of conduct causing affliction and distress to another. I employ an autobiographical approach, using critical incidents of my encounters with vexatious behaviour to disclose facets of my experience. In doing so, my exploration engages in a methodology not yet utilized in the study of vexatious behaviour (such as that of emotional abuse). Throughout the inquiry process, I employ an ontological hermeneutic form of interpretation to seek understanding, an attribution form of causation to search for meaning, as well as deductive and inductive forms of inquiry to explore and develop theories and approaches to support my process of developing a greater awareness about vexatiousness. Seeking to make sense of my experience from a context beyond the personal dimension, I apply a systems theory approach to explore vexation from a multi-dimensional perspective, including analyzing on individual, interpersonal, organizational, and systemic levels. My exploration is guided by the development of a model for analyzing my experience: the cycle of vexatious behaviour is comprised of a repeating sequence of affect, interpretation, and effect or more specifically, a Perpetrator's behaviour, the Target's interpretation of the vexatious behaviour, its effect on the Target, and the Target's response to the encountered vexatious behaviour. I build on the existing literature by developing a typology for identifying and distinguishing between violent, aggressive, harassing, and emotionally abusive vexatious behaviours. I contribute to the existing body of literature by developing a connection between personality types and the risk of vexatious behaviour, identifying the impact of interpersonal transgressions on the perpetuation of vexatiousness, reporting on the organizational theory roots and rationale for the absence of vexatious behaviour in the workplace, as well as identified systemic causes for the existence of vexatious behaviour. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Information, parenting, and childhood development
Keywords: Parents, Information services
Child rearing, Information services
Child development, Information services

In conjunction with the Government of Ontario's Early Years Plan, The County of Dufferin, an expanding suburban community northwest of the Greater Toronto Area, established various programs in the late 1990s to disseminate new information about early child development. Using survey methodology, the present study uses Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation theory to assess the efficacy of these programs by measuring the degree to which parents have knowledge about new developments in child-rearing practices and their attitudes towards such practices. Level of education was related to the types and frequency of channels of information dissemination accessed. The most frequent use of formal channels (parenting programs) and informal channels (objects) was reported by parents who are working 10 hours or less per week. Programs designed to educate parents about child-rearing need to focus more on emotional support, confidence building, and cultivation of a positive attitude than on factual knowledge.
Unsettling sights: artists re-imagine the nation
Keywords: National characteristics, Canadian
Canada in art

This thesis explores how contemporary artists re-imagine icons of the Canadian nation. I argue that representations which memorialize iconic images are key sites where cultural memory is produced and debated. While Canadian icons almost inevitably speak to the idea of â€˜Canadaâ€™ as a benign, tolerant, orderly and enterprising northern nation, I explore the work of artists who have reconfigured symbols of â€˜Canadiannessâ€™ in ways that were never intended or foreseen in traditional narratives of the nation. My approach fosters viewing practices that theorize visual culture within the nexus of history, identity and the nation at the same time as I also interrogate the aesthetic strategies used by artists. Using MuÃ±oz's theory of â€˜disidentificationâ€™ (1999) I investigate how artistic work resists dominant cultural forms through working on and against systems of domination, transforming the cultural logic from within. My focus is on three particular icons. I start with an examination of the idea of the â€˜vanishing Indianâ€™ through the work of Canadian film maker Ali Kazimi in Shooting Indians (1997, 54 min). Next I examine the legacy of the Canadian Pacific Railroad through Richard Fung's video Dirty Laundry (1996, 30:30min). Finally, I explore Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan's The Lesbian National Parks and Services (LNPS), a performance piece which re-articulates the notion of the Canadian Park Ranger. I conclude that Canadian icons are all are haunted by the absent-presence of the â€˜Indian,â€™ and that â€˜authenticâ€™ notions of Canadianness rely on a host of raced, gendered and sexed representational exclusions. I explore how minoritized artists have made national icons themselves a site of resistance, and in so doing, have placed their artistic challenges at the very centre of the national story. These essays bring artists' self-assured voices into conversation with official narratives of the Canadian nation-state. In-so-doing they invite us to re-imagine who and what a Canadian might be.
Guidance and career education development in Ontario: A sociological perspective
Keywords: Racism in social services, Ontario
Counseling in secondary education, Sociological aspects
Counseling in secondary education, Ontario
Discrimination in education, Ontario
Career education, Sociological aspects
Career education, Ontario
Minority students, Counseling of
Minority students, Ontario
Vocational guidance, Sociological aspects
Vocational guidance, Ontario

In this study, I provide a historical and contemporary analysis of guidance and career education in secondary schools in Ontario. It is my assumption that sociological factors that were addressed when guidance and career education was first developed are no longer present in policy or the delivery of guidance in Ontario. For my research, I have used aspects of a qualitative research methodology and I have interviewed high school guidance counsellors and Education Officers who worked with the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training. My investigation centred on the development of the current Ontario government guidance and career education policy and the implementation of this policy by a few guidance teachers in Greater Toronto Area high schools. My discussion focuses on the present state of guidance and career education and the concern that it does not address the systemic discrimination a visible minority teenager may face.
Ethical teaching: a case for dialogical resistance
Keywords: Teaching, Moral and ethical aspects
Dialogue

My choice of philosophical framework borrows from Buber's relational ontology. His dialogical core of unconditioned worth acts as fertile soil for justifying ethical resistance. Teachers acting within the Buberian vision of education are therefore called to resist dehumanizing pedagogies and enter into dialogical relations that promote healthy ethical tensions in educational settings. My contribution to the study of ethical pedagogy focuses on dialogical resistance in the classroom. Dialogical resistance must be argued and practised as a necessary dyadic tension between dominance and subservience, bureaucratic demands and subversion and individual conscience and collective pressures. Within the context of an increasingly diverse educational system and a functionally monolithic evaluation system, the ethical teacher will resist dialogically for the sake of ethical space in the classroom. The pressures and contradictions to be resisted are located within the teacher, between the teacher and students, and between the teacher and the education system. Resistance leads to more ethical space as the teacher-student relationship becomes less neutralized, more morally significant as a truly human relationship. I attach high ontological value to each human life, regardless of culture, religion, gender.
Tax paradox of a rich developing country rethinking the canadian nexus for business income taxation in a digital age
Keywords: Business tax, Law and legislation
Business tax, Canada
International business enterprises, Taxation
International business enterprises, Canada
Investments, Foreign, Taxation
Investments, Foreign, Canada

Globalization and electronic commerce have increased the significance of Canada's choice of jurisdictional threshold for taxing multinational businesses. In the realm of global income taxation, national tax systems and bilateral tax conventions work together to allocate multi jurisdictional tax claims among nations. International tax laws must strive to resolve competing tax claims in a fair and economically sound manner. The principle of inter-nation equity requires an equitable allocation of global tax revenues among nations. While the permanent establishment concept constitutes an entrenched international legal norm, its continued use as the threshold for allocating income tax claims will likely exacerbate revenue disparities among nations, particularly in the digital economy. Electronic commerce provides the impetus for Canada to consider a source-friendly nexus for the taxation of global business income. Canada's international tax paradox requires a choice between the continued application of an inequitable permanent establishment threshold and the adoption of an untested alternative nexus for taxing business income from cross-border transactions. The paradoxical elements of Canada's international tax policies can be appreciated through the use of economic development paradigms. In so far as Canada can be viewed as a "rich developing country", Canada may be able to resolve its international tax paradox by choosing a threshold that allows the source country greater tax room relative to the permanent establishment norm. The seemingly insurmountable political and fiscal challenges presented by a hegemonic tax power, such as the United States of America, should not preclude Canada from arguing for adoption of a fair and effective replacement to the historic permanent establishment concept. A jurisdictional sales nexus expands the scope of source-country taxation by allowing the market jurisdiction to tax the income derived by remote sellers on sales completed within the jurisdiction. If Canada's policymakers were to adopt a jurisdictional sales nexus for the taxation of international business profits, it would promote Canada's revenue interests while advancing economic justice globally.
The impact of technology on the pedagogical practice of grade nine applied mathematics teachers
Keywords: Mathematics, Study and teaching (Secondary)
Educational technology
Mathematics, Computer-assisted instruction
Mathematics teachers, Attitudes

To what extent can instructional technologies influence the pedagogical practice of grade nine mathematics teachers? In this study data from two-grade nine mathematics classrooms was collected and analyzed to determine the extent to which instructional technologies can alter pedagogy. Classroom observation during low technology and high technology teaching found that technology influences instructional practice. Teachers' instructional practice moved from a transmission orientation to a more constructivist approach as a result of integrating technology into mathematics lessons. During high technology lessons there was more student dialog, student tasks were more problem solving oriented, and in the case of one classroom assessment was used to change instructional practice and curriculum.
The errorless classroom: a success-focused, non-intrusive approach to intervention for severe behaviour
Keywords: Conduct disorders in children, Treatment
Behavior disorders in children, Treatment
Problem children
Social skills in children
Social skills, Study and teaching

Errorless acquiescence training (EAT) was used to improve the social skills of 8 children referred to a clinical classroom due to severe antisocial and oppositional behaviors. Prior to treatment, all 8 children evinced low levels of cooperation and high levels of antisocial behaviors. An errorless paradigm was used to teach children to tolerate and yield to the will and provocations of their peers without retaliation (i.e., acquiescence). Consistent with all errorless paradigms, key intervention components (i.e., instructions, prompts, reinforcements, and performance feedback) were systematically faded at a slow enough rate during treatment to ensure successful social interactions among peers. Throughout and following treatment, all 8 children demonstrated an increase in acquiescent responding, significant reductions in antisocial behaviors, and substantial improvements in prosocial verbal responding. The effects of EAT extended to improvements in prosocial physical responding and clean-up behaviors.