• Remix + Praxis: A Rapademic Approach to Critical and Culturally Relevant Education 

  McGuire, Michael Douglas (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)

  A decade ago, the province of Nova Scotia identified what it designated as achievement gaps—a significant disparity in scholastic performance for Black and Indigenous students relative to those of European descent as a ...
• A Lunenburg County Settler’s Account of Her Role and Responsibility in Decolonization 

  Knickle, Margaret J. A. (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022-03-10)

  The goal of this study was to contribute to decolonization through an examination of a settler's recent decolonizing initiatives. This study examines the role of the author and her responsibility in decolonization, ...
• The Interrelationship amongst Depression, Loneliness, Self-Regulation, and Academic Achievement in Canadian and International Students 

  Shahidi, Mehrdad (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020)

  Background: The number of international students in Western universities was estimated to be 7.2 million (CBIE, 2017, 2018) or 8 million in 2025 (Quacquarelli Symonds, 2020). In Canada, this number was 642,480 on December ...
• How Objects in Spaces Help People in Places: Material Object Interactions Affecting Adults’ Informal Learning: Arts-Informed Research using Sculptural Mobile Forms 

  Mason, Stephanie M. (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2020)

  This work is a wide-ranging exploration into the ways adults can be supported to learn informally through material object interactions in public places. In keeping with my methodological lens of arts-informed research, I ...
• The Historical Formation of Adult Education Discourses in the Shift from Liberalism to Neoliberalism 

  MacPhail, Scott (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2019)

  This dissertation provides the theoretical under-labouring needed for adult education theorists to understand the ways in which adult education has become part of the ideological veil behind which capitalism maneuvers in ...
• The Role of Spirituality and/or Religion for Queer Individuals Negotiating Homonegative Beliefs and Values in Coming Out 

  Hattie-Longmire, Brenda (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2018-10-24)

  This dissertation investigates how out individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer who have been raised in a homonegative Christian faith and have experienced internal conflicts between their sexual identities and ...
• Learning to Lead in Health Care: A Narrative Inquiry of Physician Leadership 

  Jolemore, Shawn (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2018)

  Active physician leadership within health care organizations can shape the way health care is delivered and contribute to improving and strengthening the system. Yet physicians often struggle to be effective in organizational ...
• “Set our spirits free: Exploring the role of spirituality as an anti-oppressive agent in the formal education of African Nova Scotian learners” 

  Munroe-Anderson, Kesa (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2018)
• “It Just Happened”: How Motherwork is Learned and Experienced by Canadian Stepmothers in an Online Support Group 

  Careless, Erin Jennifer (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2018)

  This doctoral dissertation study explores the ways in which Canadian stepmothers learn and experience “motherwork” through the negotiation of their role and their participation in an online support group. Life history ...
• Children’s Shared Understanding of Media Marketing 

  LeBlanc, Lyse Anne (Mount Saint Vincent University, 2016)

  Through an examination of the contextual relationship between theory of mind and media literacy, this exploratory research study contributes to the fields of both education and psychology, as well as the broader digital ...
• Writing in the Key of Life: Inquiry into Writing Processes and Pedagogies 

  Domm, Kristin Bieber (Mount Saint Vincient University, 2016)

  This inquiry investigates the complexities of writing and teaching writing in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. What must we understand about language in order to teach writing well? How can inquiry into ...

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