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In the Face of Anti-LGBQ Behaviour: Saskatchewan High School Students' Perceptions of School Climate and Consequential Impact
Author: Morrison, Melanie A.
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Homosexuality,Sexual Orientation,Sexual Identity,Social Networks,Social Bias,Student Surveys,High School Students,Student Attitudes,Bullying,Speech Communication,Victims,Academic Achievement,Correlation,Social Life,Student Participation,Athletics,Extracurricular Activities,Emotional Response,Online Surveys,Interpersonal Relationship,Teacher Role,Language Usage,Coding,Thematic Approach

In Canada, there is a dearth of research on school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning (LGBQ) students. Using social networking, 60 students from high schools in Saskatchewan participated in a climate survey. Results indicated that anti-LGBQ speech was widespread, as were other forms of harassment. The more victimization that was reported by students known, or perceived to be, LGBQ, the more deleterious were the consequences for their academic performance, social lives, participation in sports and extracurricular activities, and overall enjoyment of school. Limitations associated with the study and directions for future research are detailed.
Imagining Education: An Arendtian Response to an Inmate's Question
Author: Meyer, Karen Ann
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Females,Institutionalized Persons,Correctional Institutions,Role of Education,Correctional Education,Rehabilitation,Health,Philosophy,Birth,Experience,Participatory Research,Action Research,Personal Narratives,Imagination

This article responds to a &quot;what-if&quot; question regarding education, raised by a woman inmate. Emerging in the midst of a research project with women in prison, the unexpected question haunts the two authors, both educational researchers, who in turn reconsider education's role in difficult circumstances. For guidance, the authors turn to Hannah Arendt's concept of natality as the capacity to renew, and Natasha Levinson's claim that the preservation of natality is critical to education. The authors examine the gap between past and future as a potential space to imagine education otherwise, within both the project and the larger perspective of education.
Motivators of Educational Success: Perceptions of Grade 12 Aboriginal Students
Author: Preston, Jane P.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary School Students,High School Students,Urban Schools,Semi Structured Interviews,Teaching Methods,School Culture,Foreign Countries,Academic Achievement,Indigenous Populations,American Indians,Canada Natives,Student Motivation,World Views,Indigenous Knowledge,Culturally Relevant Education,Qualitative Research,Grade 12

The purpose of this paper is to identify motivators that support educational success, as perceived by Aboriginal high school students enrolled in two urban Saskatchewan schools. Twelve semi-structured individual interviews revealed that students were motivated by a hospitable school culture, relevant learning opportunities, and positive personal influences outside the realm of the school (e.g., family role models and Elder influence). Utilizing an Aboriginal worldview lens, student motivation stemmed from experiencing four quadrants of learning--awareness (physical), knowledge (mental), continuous improvement (emotional), and perseverance (spiritual). An implication is that educators need to incorporate features of Aboriginal pedagogy when teaching.
Towards Distributed Leadership as Standards-Based Practice in British Columbia
Author: Cherkowski, Sabre
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Standards,Leadership,Sustainability,Moral Values,Foreign Countries,Principals,Leadership Qualities,Communities of Practice,Integrity,Administrator Attitudes,Interviews

This narrative study of four BC principals was an initial investigation of distributed leadership using their provincial leadership standards as an organizing framework. The researchers invited participants to describe their understanding and practice of distributed leadership in terms of the Standards. Findings revealed three themes, or sets of administrative practices, that enrich operational understanding of distributed leadership: establishing a shared vision of distributed leadership, leading with character and integrity, and enabling others to find their leadership voice. The practice of establishing distributed leadership was found to be coherent with the development of a sustainable learning community and with the moral stewardship emphasis of the provincial standards.
The Media's Influence on Female Relational Aggression and Its Implications for Schools
Author: Virtanen, Crystal
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Females,Aggression,Mass Media Effects,Mass Media Role,Trend Analysis,Films,Gender Differences,Role,Adolescents,Intervention,Teaching Methods,Bullying,Victims,Media Literacy

The author of this paper explores the media's role in the normalization of relational aggression of females and the implications this can have in schools. It is important that those who teach, support, and develop curricula for students be aware of the media's role in the use, and the effects, of indirect aggression and have information on how to approach reducing the effect that the media can have. Trends and effects of relational aggression are highlighted. The media's role in normalizing relational aggression in females is explored, with a specific look at Disney's films as well as the effect the media's influence can have on youth and families. This paper will consider current tactics employed by schools and the challenges schools face. It will conclude with a look at future ideas for combating the normalization of relational aggression in the media.
Teachers' Beliefs and Teaching Mathematics with Manipulatives
Author: Golafshani, Nahid
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Attitudes,Beliefs,Mathematics Instruction,Manipulative Materials,Mathematics Teachers,Grade 9,Secondary School Mathematics,Secondary School Teachers,Questionnaires,Observation,Learning

To promote the implementation of manipulatives into mathematics instruction, this research project examined how the instructional practices of four Grade 9 applied mathematics teachers related to their beliefs about the use of manipulatives in teaching mathematics, its effects on students' learning, and enabling and disabling factors. Teacher questionnaire and observation field notes were used to collect data concerning the teachers' beliefs and possible changes in their beliefs about the use of manipulatives after participating in training and practising their pilot lesson plans over the course of more than 20 weeks. The results have indicated that the teachers showed more desire to use manipulatives in their teaching as the project and the training were progressing. Teachers have also reported that the use of manipulatives had some direct effect on the students' learning, in particular, on the struggling students; however, its major effect was on creating an environment that facilitated students' learning through different methods of engagement.
An Analysis of Aims and the Educational &quot;Event&quot;
Author: den Heyer, Kent
Date: 2015-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Social Studies,Educational Objectives,Citizenship Education,Socialization,Role of Education,History Instruction,Public Schools,Democracy,Patriotism,Preservice Teacher Education,Elementary Secondary Education,Preservice Teachers,Philosophy

In this article, the author explores key distinctions relevant to aims talk in education. He argues that present formulations of aims fail to adequately capture or speak to several overlapping domains involved in schooling: qualification, socialization, and the educational in the form of subjectification (Biesta, 2010). Drawing off Egan and Biesta to differentiate the educational domain, the author details an ontological orientation to the educational &quot;event&quot; through the work of Badiou while grounding this exploration in ancient Western distinctions between sophistic and Socratic approaches to education as detailed by Bartlett. The article ends with a call for non-Indigenous educators to expand Canadian conceptions of educational aims and citizenship through Indigenous orientations to these vital education terms.
Contemplation as a Corrective to Technological Education
Author: Steel, Sean
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Reflection,Technology Education,Philosophy,Epistemology,Information Technology

This paper argues that noetic studies, contemplation, or &quot;theoria&quot; ought to take greater precedence in education than is currently the case. Our modern focus on and fascination with information technologies serves in many ways to thwart and to discourage the cultivation of noetic studies and the pursuit of wisdom in schools. The suggestion throughout this paper is that if the significance of pre-modern and non-technological ways of knowing could be made clear and convincing to education stakeholders, it seems likely that the appropriateness of such pursuits might be recognized, and their practice rendered more frequent as a kind of corrective to technological education.
Accelerating Gifted Students in Canada: Policies and Possibilities
Author: Kanevsky, Lannie S.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Academically Gifted,Special Education,Acceleration (Education),Educational Policy,State Policy,Educational Legislation,Foreign Countries,Elementary Secondary Education

Policy documents related to gifted education and 18 forms of accelerated learning practices were collected from all Canadian provinces and territories. Where they were found, policies continue to be permissive and flexible. &quot;Explicit&quot; support for gifted education and acceleration was strongest in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, provinces with categorical orientations to exceptional learners. Additional opportunities to advance learners also existed in these and all jurisdictions because &quot;potentially&quot; accelerative practices were supported, such as correspondence courses and mentoring. In order to address the needs of students who know more and learn more quickly than their peers, intentional, flexible interpretation, and implementation of permissive policies are becoming increasingly important as jurisdictions' philosophies and documentation in special education become less categorical and more inclusive.
&quot;The Way It Works&quot; Doesn't: Theatre of the Oppressed as Critical Pedagogy and Counternarrative
Author: Schroeter, Sara
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Critical Theory,Educational Theories,Teaching Methods,Blacks,Secondary School Students,Refugees,Racial Identification,Ethnography,Workshops,Dramatic Play,Inclusion,Case Studies,Disadvantaged Youth,Participant Observation,Semi Structured Interviews

This paper presents data from a study examining the use of Theatre of the Oppressed as a critical pedagogy and research method for exploring notions of identity, belonging, and culture with francophone secondary students (Schroeter, 2009). It describes the process whereby Black African-Canadian students with refugee backgrounds identified their program, as well as their language, citizenship status, and race as factors limiting their imagined social futures (New London Group, 2000). The paper finds that students used their identities, symbolism, and ambiguity to challenge authorized discourses and show how their identities intersected in their educational experiences.
Reconstructing Careers, Shifting Realities: Understanding the Difficulties Facing Trailing Spouses in Higher Education
Author: Careless, Erin J.
Date: 2015-03-04
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Faculty,Spouses,Family Work Relationship,Faculty Mobility,Content Analysis,Universities,Language Usage,Inclusion,Comparative Analysis,College Administration,Job Satisfaction,Foreign Countries,Personnel Policy,Employee Assistance Programs

Faculty members in higher education who move to new cities or provinces often bring their families with them, and this can have both a positive and negative effect on the retention and job satisfaction of faculty. Educational policy makers can play a role in supporting faculty by supporting their trailing spouses, through policies informing careers, skills, and community engagement. This paper explores existing literature focusing on academic trailing spouses, conducts a content analysis of three Canadian universities that relates to support for trailing spouses, and suggests some recommendations. We pay particular attention to the use of inclusive language in these policies, as the changing nature of family systems requires further consideration of diverse needs and experiences.
Concept Maps Provide a Window onto Preservice Elementary Teachers' Knowledge in the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
Author: Chichekian, Tanya
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Concept Mapping,Preservice Teachers,Elementary Education,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Elementary School Mathematics

This collaborative concept-mapping exercise was conducted in a second-year mathematics methods course. Teachers' visual representations of their mathematical content and pedagogical knowledge provided insight into their understanding of how students learn mathematics. We collected 28 preservice student teachers' concept maps and analyzed them by counting the number of concepts and links within and across knowledge, teaching, and learning. We also examined the nature of the links between two domains of concepts. Preservice teachers revealed limited knowledge about how students learn mathematics. Concept maps successfully identified areas in which preservice teachers held an unsophisticated understanding of mathematics and its connection to pedagogy.
A/Political Education: A Survey of Quebec Students' Perceptions of Their Citizenship Education
Author: Fournier-Sylvester, Nicole
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Citizenship Education,High School Graduates,Graduate Surveys,History Instruction,Secondary School Curriculum,Student Attitudes,Citizen Participation,Social Change,Intention,Student Government,Student Volunteers,Classroom Environment

This survey of 370 recent high school graduates reveals that history and citizenship courses in Quebec focus on cultural and religious viewpoints, favour a transmission approach to learning, and fail to connect the political process to students' concerns and interests. Without a clear conception of citizenship as a reference point, this curriculum appears to neglect the development of agency around civic engagement and social change. Recommendations on how to improve the program are guided by students' answers to open-ended questions and current scholarship on the need for a more critical analysis of national and global diversity and inequality in school curriculums.
A Study on the Application of STP Marketing Strategy in the MBA Education Program of Universities in China
Author: Zhang, Hongyi
Date: 2008-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Marketing,Foreign Countries,Masters Programs,Teaching Methods,Developing Nations,Program Development,International Education,Educational Development

The MBA education has begun in America and now it has become mature after nearly one hundred years' development. Although China's MBA merely has a history of 17 years, it has already gained great achievements. In 1991, 9 universities in China had MBA program and 86 students enrolled in. In 2007, the two numbers were 127 and 59,776 respectively. The law of things' development is to progress in a wave style and to rise in a spiral way. China's MBA education is not an exception. In 2002, the enrolling number was 67,506, being the highest ever. In 2003 and 2004, the number decreased heavily, respectively reducing 16 percent and 13 percent. From 2005 to 2007, the number increased with a rate of 9 percent, 3 percent, and 6 percent respectively. The development of MBA in China's universities has experienced a process of taking reference, exploring, developing, and regulating. In the aspects of teaching materials and methods, it chiefly takes references from experiences of universities in developed countries, such as America. In the aspects of enrollment and popularization, it makes a series of effective explorations based on China's practical situation and others' experiences. The application of STP marketing strategy exerts an extremely important driving effect on the development of China's MBA program.
What &quot;Crazy English&quot; Can Tell Us? Inspiration and Motivation from Li Yang
Author: Yunbao, Yang
Date: 2008-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: English (Second Language),Second Language Learning,Pronunciation,Student Motivation,Learning Strategies,Foreign Countries,Phonetics,English Language Learners,Self Esteem,Language Proficiency

Issues regarding English language learning such as pronunciation, motivation and learning strategies are raised. Li Yang, an example of successful learner is cited for learners who are less successful in China. Fundamental issues that need to be dealt with include pronunciation. Phonetics is an area where there has been little emphasis in foreign language learning in Chinese schools but good learners of English commonly exhibit good pronunciation.
An Exploration of Creative Talents Training
Author: Ren, Li-juan
Date: 2008-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Creativity,Creative Thinking,Talent Development,Imagination,Educational Change,Teaching Methods,Course Content,Teacher Competencies

The ways to train creative talents are put forward by an analysis of talents-training mode, individual development, creative thinking and the optimization of teaching process.
A Perfect Match of Style and Subject: Remarks on the Style of &quot;World Leaders Pay Tribute to Reagan&quot;
Author: Ou, Weihong
Date: 2008-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Writing (Composition),Presidents,Literary Styles,Journalism,News Reporting,Semantics,Death,Rhetoric,Figurative Language,Context Effect

Style is very important in writing. When a style matches a subject, the subject can be well expressed. The author of the article &quot;World Leaders Pay Tribute to Reagan&quot; succeeds in using the right style to reflect the unforgettable solemnity of the state funeral for the former president and people's deep memory of him. This paper intends to do some research on the successful match of the style and the subject of the article.
School Principals' Emotional Coping Process
Author: Poirel, Emmanuel
Date: 2014-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Principals,Coping,Emotional Response,Foreign Countries,Recall (Psychology),Video Technology,Stress Variables,Teacher Administrator Relationship,Anxiety,Inhibition,Competence,Assistant Principals,Statistical Analysis,Coding,Check Lists,Psychological Patterns,Stress Management,Empathy,Elementary Schools,High Schools

The present study examines the emotional coping of school principals in Quebec. Emotional coping was measured by stimulated recall; six principals were filmed during a working day and presented a week later with their video showing stressful encounters. The results show that school principals experience anger because of reproaches from staff members and experience anxiety when they anticipate situations which are likely to worsen. Emotional inhibition is the most frequently used coping strategy. Overall, these findings point to the need to emphasize the role of emotional competence in the study of school principals' stress.
An Exploration on the Reform of Teaching in Graduation Design for the Major of Animation
Author: Dai, Lingrui
Date: 2008-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Design,Animation,Majors (Students),Teaching Methods,Course Content,Graduation,Knowledge Level,Competence,Graduation Requirements,College Students

Graduation design is an important course to cultivate students' comprehensive capability in teaching. Focusing on the features of graduation design and the practical situation of students, this paper discusses lots of issues concerned with the teaching and the practice for the major of animation, such as how to reform the teaching way by optimizing the content structure of graduate design and adjusting the content system, and how to form unique teaching features surrounding two aspects, namely solidifying the specialty techniques and improving the ability of practice. By this way, the final goal of graduation design may be realized.
Research on Russian National Character
Author: Na, Zhuo
Date: 2008-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Social Structure,Geographic Location,Personality,Patriotism,Foreign Policy,Persistence

The special geographical location Russia lies in creates the unique character of the Russian nation. Based on the dual nature of the Russian national character, the Russian geographical environment and the analysis of its social structure, this text tries to explore the reasons of the dual nature of Russian national character.
Study on the Actuality and the Countermeasures of the Employment of College Students
Author: Fan, Zhiyi
Date: 2008-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,College Students,College Graduates,Employment Opportunities,Employment Potential,Barriers,Recruitment,Career Guidance,Job Search Methods,Employment Services

The employment of college students has become an issue that draws common concern from the whole society. This paper explores the employment of college students from various angles, finds out the material reasons thereto and put forwards countermeasures for resolving theses problems and development ways.
Going beyond STS: Towards a Curriculum for Sociopolitical Action
Author: Hodson, Derek
Date: 2004-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scientific Literacy,Educational Practices,Cultural Context,Technological Advancement,Values Clarification,Science and Society,Politics of Education,Life Style,Social Change,Political Issues,Social Values,Curriculum Development,Educational Change,Activism,Critical Theory

This article asserts that STS-oriented curricula, while of value in presenting a more authentic view of scientific practice and its cultural context, are too timid in their approach towards the political interests and social values that underpin scientific and technological developments. A case is made for politicizing students through an issues-based, technology-oriented curriculum aimed at social critique, values clarification, and preparation for sociopolitical action. (This paper is a summary of Hodson, 2003). [See: &quot;Time for Action: Science Education for an Alternative Future,&quot; by Hodson, Derek. &quot;International Journal of Science Education,&quot; v25 n6 p645-70 Jun 2003 in ERIC at EJ672139.]