Recent Theses
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Adult Education | Educational Administration | Higher Education
Adult Education Doctoral Students
2010
Sheila Janet Batacharya, Life in a Body: Counter hegemonic Understandings of Violence, Oppression, Healing and Embodiment among Young South Asian Women
Howard Michael Bloom, To Live and Learn with Neurological Challenges: Life Histories of Two Teenagers in an Educative Community
Ipsita Nita Chaudhuri, Participatory, Education and Action Research in Wastewater Use and Human Health using an Eco-system Health Framework in Peri-urban areas of Dakar, Senegal
Mark Lewis Federman, From BAH to BA: Valence Theory and the Future of Organization
Soosan Daghighi Latham, Life Histories of Culturally Diverse Canadian Leaders: A Study of Absence and Identity
Amy Elizabeth McGee, Artwork/Streetlines: Street-involved Youth in Thunder Bay: A Community-based Arts-informed Inquiry
Winnie Wun-Wun Ng, Racing Solidarity, Remaking Labour: Labour Renewal from a Decolonizing and Anti-racism Perspective
Carol Felicity Polych, Exploring the Help-seeking/Helping Dynamic in Illegal Drug Use
Karim Amirali Remtulla, Socio-cultural Inclusiveness and Workplace E-Learning: From Dominant Discourse to Democratized Discourses
Jasjit Kaur Sangha, Meri Kahanee Sono (Listen to my Story): A (Step) mother's Journey of Healing and Renewal
Barry Trentham, Old Coyotes: Life Histories of Aging Gay Men in Rural Canada
2011
Sara Carpenter, Theorizing Praxis in Citizenship Learning: Civic Engagement and the Democratic Management of Inequality in AmeriCorps
Sheila Wilmot, The Social Organization of the Ontario Minimum Wage Campaign
Clement Jumbe, Social Networks and Social Support in HIV Testing
Rouf Kazi, The Impact of the Grameen Bank Upon the Patriarchal Family and Community Relations of Women Borrowers in Bangladesh
Carole Lakshmi Chatalalsingh, Interprofessional Team Learning and Leaders in an Academic Health Care Organization
Suzanne Lee Cook, Redirection: Using Career Development Theory to Interpret the
Volunteer Activities of Retirees
Shama Dossa, Re(ART)iculating Empowerment: Cooperative Explorations with Community Development Workers in Pakistan
Renee Linklater, Decolonising Trauma Work: Indigenous_Practitioners Share Stories and Strategies
Srabani Maitra, Redefining ‘Enterprising Selves’: Exploring the ‘Negotiation’ of South Asian Immigrant Women as Home-based Enclave Entrepeneurs
Christine McKenzie, Exploring Intersectionality, Unravelling Interlocking Oppressions: Feminist Non-credit Learning Processes
Ajamu Akinbiyi Nangwaya, Race, Resistance and Co-optation in the Canadian Labour Movement: Effecting an Equity Agenda like Race Matters
Soheila Pashang, Non-status Women: Invisible Residents and Underground Resilience
Gertrude Rawlings, Innovation from Below: An Exploration of Contingent Workers’ Training and Access to Information and Communication Technology
Lurong Wang, Immigration, Literacy, and Mobility: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Well-educated Chinese Immigrants’ Trajectories in Canada
Educational Administration Doctoral Students
2010
Herveen Singh, Leadership for Social Justice: An Examination of Leadership Roles
Jingping Sun, A Review of Transformational Leadership Research: A Meta-Analytic Approach
Nelson Paul Rogers, Campus in the Country: Community College Involvement in Rural Community Development
Ganna Yashkina, Exploring the Nature and Extent of Leadership Distribution in Elementary Schools.
Valentyna Kushnarenko, International Collaboration in Higher Education: The Canadian-Ukrainian Curriculum Development
Stephanie Sutherland, Teacher and Student Perceptions of Student Engagement
Dianne Thomson, Teachers' Reflection on Practice: Selecting Teacher Candidates who are Prepared to Participate in School Reform
Darrin Griffiths, Promoting Inclusion in Urban Contexts: Elementary Principal Leadership
Eric Jabal, Being, Becoming and Belonging: Exploring Students’ Engagement of and Engagement within the International School of Hong Kong
Caroline Chassels, Responses to Difference in Initial Teacher Education: A Case of Racial and Linguistic Minority Immigrant Teacher Candidates
Erin E. Irish, The Deep Slumber of Decided Opinion: How Teachers and School Administrators Understand Controversial Issues Policy
2011
Katherine Witherow, Research Use and the Impact in Secondary Schools
Joseph Wanyama Mulongo, The Role of the Principal in the Micropolitical Context of Secondary Schools in Establishing and Maintaining School Community Partnerships
Cynthia Rottmann, Organized Leadership for Equitable Change: Union-Active Teachers Dedicated to Social Justice
Grant Armstrong, Leadership in Times of Change: An Examination of a Merger Experience
Victoria Handford, Why Teachers Trust School Leaders
Yvette Marie Debeer, Ideologically Informed: A Policy Archeology of Special Education in Ontario, 1965-1980
Richard Williamson, Leadership Supports for First-Time Vice-Principals: How Coaching Shapes Leader Self-Efficacy
Safdar Muhammad, Interorganizational Partnerships: A Study of Leadership, Structures and Processes
Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, Schools, child welfare and well-being: Dimensions of collective responsibility for maltreated children living at home
(the winner of the Leithwood Outstanding Thesis of the Year Award (OISE) and the T.B. Greenfield Doctoral Award (CASEA)
Jie Qi
Deborah Lynn Dunbar
Fei Wang
2012
Amanda Mae Cooper: Knowledge Mobilization Intermediaries in Education: A Cross-Case Analysis of 44 Canadian Organizations
Patricia Sevean: Learning to Transition: Nurses' Entry into Cancer Nursing Practice
Krista Zupan: Values, Conflicts and Conflict Resolution: An Investigation of the Experiences of Educational Administrators
Virginia Stead: Teacher Candidate Diversification through Equity-based Admission Policy
John Malloy
Meera Mather
Mark Robert Baxter
Laurelle Jno Baptiste
Higher Education Doctoral Students
2010
Lindsay Kerr, The Educational Production of Students at Risk
Mia Quint-Rapoport, Open Source in Higher Education: A Situational Analysis of the Open Journal Systems.
Jane Wonjiry Ngobia, Internationalization and the Undergraduate Student Experience: How Domestic Students Experience Interaction with International Students.
Yuxin Tu, A Chinese Civil Society in the Making: Civic Perceptions and Civic Participation of University Students in an Era of Massification
Maria Athina Martimianakis, Discourse, Governance and Subjectivity: Interdisciplinarity and Knowledge-Making in Engineering and in Medicine
Pamela Williamson, Assessing the Influence of First Nation Counsellors on First Nation Post-Secondary Students and their Program Choices
Christopher Whitaker, The Nature of Dual Credit Programs in Ontario and their Contribution to Improved Transitions and Access to College: A Case Study Perspective
Jian Liu, Expansion and Equality in Access to Chinese Higher Education: A Cultural Perspective
Zahra Hojati, Ironic Acceptance – Present in Academia Discarded as Oriental: The Case of Iranian Female Graduate Student in Canadian Academia
Klaus Schneider, Ontario Colleges in the Digital Age: Understanding the Student Experience, Perceptions and Attitudes of Online Learning at one Ontario College
Sabrina Elzpeth Saunders, The State of First Nations Education: Two Conversations About Education Post-RCAP
Marguerite Donohue, Transfer of Learning from the Classroom to the Cooperative Education Workplace in a Baccalaureate Program in an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology
Anne Caroline Charles, Policy Windows and Changing Arrangements: An Analysis of the Policy Process Leading to the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Act, 2002
2011
Nona Robinson, Values of Canadian Student Affairs Practitioners
David William Gasteiger, An Automated Enrolment Projection System
Elyse K. Chaplin, The Experience of Students with Learning Disabilities Transitioning to Postsecondary Education
So-Yan Seto, A “Tricky Business”- Knowledge Production in Children’s Environmental Health
Pamela Gravestock, Does Teaching Matter? The Role of Teaching Evaluation in the Tenure Policies at Selected Canadian Universities
Jeanette McDonald, Becoming an Educational Developer: A Canadian University Perspective
Laurentiu David, The Managerial Roles of Academic Deans in Ontario
Tracy Ryder, Accomodating The Ethno-Cultural Differences of Students: An Analysis of Ontario Community Colleges
Nancy Mcnaughton, A Theoretical Analysis of the Field of Human Simulation and the Role of Emotion and Affect in the Work of Standardized Patients
Meggan Madden, Exploring Higher Education Regionalization through a Study of the Asia Pacific Quality Network
2012
Leila Rachel Lax, Knowledge Building in Continuing Medical Education
Sharon Leonie Brow
Julian Weinrib
Ching-Hsiao (Wes) Chiang
Bryan Gopal
Laura Lauchi