To close a gap in the literature, this study sought to develop a deeper understanding of the processes museum educators use to create inclusive curricula on American slavery. The research design was a qualitative, descriptive, multicase study using data collected from a purposef…
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The purpose of this paper is to study whether playing a subject-related game in class increases a student’s interest in the class subject, their perception of the learning climate, and their engagement in the classroom. The lens through which this research was focused was based …
There is growing evidence to suggest that many of today’s North American colleges and universities are pedagogically ineffective in preparing students personally, professionally and publicly. This widening gap between what we need and want of higher learning and what its educato…
Offering authentic college coursework to high school students, through dual enrollment programming, has been shown to increase college readiness, enrollment, persistence, graduation, and reduce cost and time to degree. However, limited research has been conducted on the dual enr…
A review of the literature on alternate pathways of certification and anti-racist curriculum revealed that the alternate pathways of certification requirements vary from the traditional pathways of certification that often require a course on multicultural education or diversity…
Although many extended techniques have been included in compositions for clarinet since the early 1900s, very few resources address the inclusion of these techniques in the clarinet curriculum. Specifically, there are very few resources that address the pedagogy of these techniq…
The purpose of this study was to explore levels of concerns that teachers have about implementing and executing rapid curriculum changes. Research on teacher concerns has traditionally targeted technology implementation rather than curriculum reform measures. This research was d…
The absence of diverse perspectives, coupled with a Eurocentric lens of analyzing history and literature, substantially limits opportunities for dialogue about race, culture, and experience (Bondi, 2012; Chapman, 2013; Schieble, 2012). As a result, White students often fail to s…
21st Century health literacy and health promotion in Ontario public schools reflect international shifts towards considerations of mental health, student wellbeing, whole-child education and comprehensive school health practices. This thesis situates these contemporary trends in…
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals of conservative and traditional communities are especially vulnerable to discrimination, isolation, fear, and other mental health disparities. Korean and Korean American LGBT communities are largely invisible given the c…
This study examines the implementation of a series of collaborative learning computer programming projects in a class where individual assignments were customarily assigned. Its intention was to disprove the history of teacher and student resistance to group projects by showing …
Undocumented educations are those educational practices falling outside of legitimated educational institutions or appearing only in marginalized, liminal ways. Through resisting, conflicting with, or simply not fitting into the grammar of school they do not “count” as education…
Currently, Eurocentric theories and practices of urban teachers and students are often studied under a White gaze of expected deficits. Much of this research is quantitative (e.g., documenting the number of teachers of color); the qualitative research that documents the experien…
The purpose of this document is to create a template for a master’s degree in Collaborative Piano using data collected from an online survey and from publicly available information on institutional websites. The history and development of the graduate collaborative piano degree …
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine the extent and ways that secondary teachers assess higher-order thinking skills on classroom summative assessments. Through a survey and interview, this study also sought to understand teachers’ and district curriculum leade…
With the overarching goal of cultivating global citizens, many Higher Education Institutions have developed and implemented co-curricular leadership programs for their constituents. Quantitative research on the impact of leadership programs on undergraduate students has shown an…
We live in an era characterised by the explosion of information. As societies are becaning more and more dependent on information, not only for the generation of knowledge but also for the generation of revenues, it is imperative that each society develops its own information in…
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the detai…
This Open Access book features a selection of articles written by Erich Ch. Wittmann between 1984 to 2019, which shows how the "design science conception" has been continuously developed over a number of decades. The articles not only describe this conception in general terms, b…