Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis is about the negative impacts on queer identities caused by the lack of diversity related to sexual orientation within Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum documents, both at the elementary and secondary level. Curriculum documents as well as policy documents are analysed and compared in order to address the lack of diverse sexual orientation representation within Ontario… more Full Text: Reconceptualising the Heteronormative Curriculum Through Autobiographical Methodology A Study of Heteronormativity within Ontario Ministry of Education Curriculum Documents A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Fulfillment of the …
Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This qualitative case study explored the experience of members and associates of </p><p>one university history department in order to examine the phenomena of choosing and </p><p>working within the history major in the context of current declines in humanities </p><p>enrolment. Drawing on interviews with 7 professors, 8 student majors, and 10 </p… more Full Text: HISTORY MAJORS DURING THE HUMANITIES CRISIS: A CASE STUDY OF PROFESSORS, STUDENTS, AND PROFESSIONAL STAFF ASSOCIATED WITH A HISTORY DEPARTMENT A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the …
Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Mullins, Peter, Thesis advisor (ths): Niblett, Blair, Degree committee member (dgc): Allen, Andrew, Degree committee member (dgc): Berrill, Deborah, Degree committee member (dgc): Handlarski, Denise, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>In this thesis, I use "Trump's Wall" between Mexico and the US to resist Eurocentrism and the challenges Eurocentric pedagogy poses to the research-practitioner. In my method, I reimagine C. Alejandra Elenes' borderlands theory as a zone of empowerment within a multicultural Canadian classroom, and braid it in a hybrid assemblage with the rhizome. </p><p>… more Full Text: TOWARDS A CRITICAL PEDAGOGY OF GLOBALITY: A RHIZO-NARRATIVE JOURNEY INTO THE GLOBAL SELF OF THE TEACHER A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Education or Science in …