Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Knott Fife, Shelley, Thesis advisor (ths): Bell, Nicole, Thesis advisor (ths): Iannacci, Luigi, Degree committee member (dgc): Brunette-Debassige, Candace, Degree committee member (dgc): Wall, Barbara, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This dissertation focuses on the special education of First Nation students in Ontario. The primary researcher is an Anishinaabekwe with decades of experience in special education. Taking an Indigenized qualitative research methodology drawing on the Two-Eyed Seeing Framework (TESF) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) exploring disability discourse, this study explores what '… more Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This study examined how to incorporate Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit [Inuit knowledge] into elementary life science teaching in Nunavut. Interviews were conducted with Kivalliq teachers and elders to understand what teachers have done to incorporate Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit into their practice and interviewed elders to understand what Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit is, how it was shared, and used… more Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Davis, Catherine Anne, Thesis advisor (ths): Bruce, Cathy, Degree committee member (dgc): Sherman, Paula, Degree committee member (dgc): Bell, Nicole, Degree committee member (dgc): Crowe, Melody, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>ABSTRACTASSEMBLING THE BRAID: ALDERVILLE FIRST NATION, LEARNING FROM THEIR WALK IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Catherine Davis
Alderville First Nation is a small, dynamic Anishinaabe First Nation community in central Ontario with the distinction of having one of the first federal residential schools in Canada, established in 1838. Access to education, both on and off reserve, has been… more Full Text: ASSEMBLING THE BRAID: ALDERVILLE FIRST NATION, LEARNING FROM THEIR WALK IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences …
Year: 2022, 2022
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Bergen, Rachelle, Thesis advisor (ths): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree committee member (dgc): Arraiz Matute, Alexandra, Degree committee member (dgc): Bell, Nicole, Degree committee member (dgc): Goldstein, Tara, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This is a story within a story that spans over a hundred years and four generations. It takes the reader from war-torn Russia during a famine to the urban streets of Toronto and then to the Canadian North. The story is a memoirette, or a 'not quite long enough, but almost a memoir' of a mother's journey navigating life after her son discloses his addiction to Fentanyl. The… more Full Text: Story Is Medicine Opioid Addiction: Healing and Hope through a ‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ Framework A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education in the Faculty of Arts and …
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>In our communities, we are continually challenged to reflect on effective responses to the people and events that put us at risk. This study is an examination of two distinctly different world-view responses: the colonial, dominant culture and the Indigenous world-view. The retributive understanding of the dominant culture applies assumptions about the nature of the world that are vested… more Full Text: ELDERS AND INDIGENOUS HEALING IN THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA: A STORY OF RELATIONAL DISSONANCE, SACRED DOUGHNUTS, AND DRIVE-THRU EXPECTATIONS A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements …
