Mahoney, Andrea(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)
Inclusive education is a contemporary health issue and has become a central goal of education systems and policies, influencing the roles and responsibilities of education systems and educators. Currently, in Nova Scotia, ...
Hollis, Heather(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022-09-11)
Children who do not learn to read by Grade 3 face increased barriers to achieving basic levels of literacy. The purpose of this dissertation was to determine how early elementary classroom teachers are instructing their ...
McKinstry, Renée(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)
Feminist philosophy continues to challenge gendered divisions of labour; however, at this
particular moment in time, some female teachers appear to be embracing a re-domestication of the professional space. A preoccupation ...
Laseinde, Ajoke M.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)
“When it comes to adjusting, I would take the race path, I guess. In Ghana, I was just female but when I came here (to Canada), I slowly realized that I'm not just a woman. I'm a Black woman. There's a difference with how ...
Green, Jared(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)
Social media platforms such as Pinterest are becoming a popular medium for locating and
consuming health information. Nonetheless, no studies to date have explored the accuracy of intervention information for reading ...
Neufled, Tim(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)
This thesis describes an investigation of international master’s students’ early stages of
language socialization in an EAP bridging program. The study primarily addressed perspectives of membership within the bridging ...
Comeau, Faith(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2021)
Home Literacy Environment (HLE) includes all aspects of the child’s environment provided by the parents/guardians that would facilitate the child’s acquisition of reading skills. Despite knowing that children with enriched ...
Kharbach, Mohamed(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)
Over the last few years, ISIS terrorism has been the subject of a growing interdisciplinary
scholarship, one that was disproportionately focused on the group‘s media discourse covering topics such as ISIS propaganda, its ...
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 ...
Walker, Paige(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)
Research examining the web accessibility of postsecondary institutions has primarily focused on the homepage of the website, with few examining Canadian institutions. This study explored how easy it is to locate the homepage ...
Haidar, Pascale Marie(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022-06)
Mental well-being is a predictor of life satisfaction, academic achievement, and self-esteem but little is known about the mental well-being of Nova Scotian youth. Additionally, socioeconomic status can be a predictor of ...
Britten, Allison(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022-06)
How are the students doing? Of particular concern during the Coronavirus global
pandemic, mental health crises are occurring worldwide, affecting individuals in a variety of
ways. The objective of this study was to provide ...
Jewer, Seana(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)
When Executive Directors take on leadership roles at non-profit organizations, they
quickly learn there are numerous tasks ranging from those that are more directly related to
carrying out the mission of the organization ...
Kim, Hanseung(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022)
The Canadian government has focused on international students’ transition to permanent
residency in the last decade in order to attract foreign skilled workers into the Canadian labour market. As immigration programs ...
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, ...
Rafuse, Al(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022-04-25)
Nonformal learning contexts provide opportunities for participants to acquire knowledge
and skills, and also encounter complementary, alternative, or opposing points of view. Taekwon Do (TKD), is but one example of a ...
Chater, Raquel M.(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2021)
Canadian schools are becoming more diverse due to increasing immigration rates. With the influx of immigrant children in schools, school staff must recognize their experiences and help facilitate a positive transition, ...
Gilroy, Corinne(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2022-04-13)
Informed by the methodologies of lyric scholarship and poetic analysis (elided here to lyric analysis), and written in a concrete, visual, calland-response format, this project provides a critical, lyrical, and material ...
Dywer, Angela(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2021-09)
This paper and video presentation present a reflexive inquiry into my teaching as an adult
music educator, through the lens of play. My goal as an educator is to create the environment that
encourages students to create ...
Greenham, Julia(Mount Saint Vincent University, 2021-09)
This study examined the existing literature of teacher and pre-service teachers’
knowledge of behavioural interventions for students with ADHD. Five hundred ninety-seven
peer-reviewed studies of teacher knowledge of ...