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A Justification for Social and Emotional Learning in High Socio-Economic Status Student Populations in the Vancouver Area
(2013-05)The purpose of this study was to investigate current research on social-emotional learning to determine if it could support the academic success of students in high socio-economic populations in the greater Vancouver area. ... -
A Justification for Supporting Transgender Youth in Schools
(2015-06)This research project is an extensive literature review that explores the experience of transgender youth in an effort to illuminate how schools can better support the academic, social and emotional success of transgender ... -
A Kaleidoscope of Learning: Improving Student Engagement through Social Innovation
(CreateSpace, 2015)The nature and face of the educational landscape continues to change, and one of the ongoing challenges remains―how to best integrate social technologies as a tool for engaging learners in meaningful ways. Additionally, ... -
Keeping New Teachers in the Profession: The Importance of a Mentorship Program
(2014-08)Too many teachers are leaving the profession within the first 5 years after an extensive investment in their training. New teacher attrition rates are due to the overwhelming duties required and the lack of support that ... -
Keeping the Dream Alive: Can Positive School Culture be Restored Despite Significant Challenges a School May Face?
(2014-09)Rapidly declining student enrollment can be detrimental to a school, without the funding – provided by student membership – schools are unable to provide quality programs further reducing its desirability. The essential ... -
Kindergarten Letter-Sound Fluency and Multi-Sensory Intervention
(2018-06-09)This action research study tracks the letter-sound fluency of 21 kindergarten students from an upper middle class urban elementary school in the Pacific Northwest over an eight-week period. A multi-sensory intervention was ... -
Knitting as a Vehicle of Personal Transformation
(2016-08-30)This paper served to examine the potential of knitting, and by extension, other textile arts, to serve as a vehicle for personal transformation in a psychotherapeutic process. There is very little empirical research that ... -
Large Scale PBL Activity Develops Core Competencies in Students
(2017-07)This research specifically aims to see whether a large scale PBL activity naturally develops the core competencies of the new B.C. curriculum in secondary students. An online survey was created to gather the responses of ... -
A Lasting Legacy of Love: Parentally Bereaved Children's Experience of Legacy Gifts
(2009)This pilot case study of a parentally bereaved family explores how the children and surviving parent experience legacy gifts that their deceased mother has left for them. A literature search of bereavement, counselling, ... -
Leadership in the Era of Disruptive Technologies: Strategies for Educational Leaders
(CreateSpace, 2014)Despite the dramatic proliferation of technological innovation across society in the past three decades, American educational systems have been slow to adopt newly designed and marketed digital platforms and devices to ... -
Leadership Seven - Impacting Student Behavior and School Culture
(2015-06)This paper presents a description of the development of a Leadership Seven Course at Hatzic Middle Secondary. Through research it considers literature pertaining to effective principles and practices of effective leadership ... -
Leadership—New Adaptive Methods
(CreateSpace, 2014)This paper is focused on the meaning of the competitive advantage, utilizing leadership, knowledge, and the importance of creativity. At present, creativity is becoming the most important instrument of successful leaders, ... -
Lean on Me: The Importance of a Social Support Network for Adult Students
(CreateSpace, 2016)Social support and social support networks are important factors in creating positive feelings of self-efficacy and confidence and helping to mitigate negative feelings or behaviors. Typically used in health and wellness ... -
Learning Communities as a Vehicle for Improved Teaching and Learning
(CreateSpace, 2016)Learning communities are widely recognized as an effective tool for improved teaching and learning. To improve teaching and learning, intentional planning and implementation are required. Learning communities that are ... -
Legitimate Peripheral Participation: Learning Reconceived as a Transformation of Social Identity
(CreateSpace, 2013)This chapter responds to a critical and often overlooked dimension of the graduate education of professionals. It presents an approach to teaching and learning that is fully compatible with performance-based ideas and a ... -
Leisure and Recreation: A Look at the Importance of an Equal Opportunity to Participate for Aboriginal People and Communities
(2008-06)The benefits of recreation and leisure on one’s mental, physical, social and spiritual health and well-being are heightened if that experience is culturally and spiritually significant to the user. This thesis will explore ... -
Let’s Talk About Books . . . and You: A Literature Review of the Effects of Psycho-educational Book Clubs for Adolescent Girls
(2013-12)This paper investigates the existing literature on psycho-educational groups, bibliotherapy, and the extent to which bibliotherapy can be utilized in a psycho-educational group by a school counsellor as a means of creating ... -
Life in the Drive-Thru Lane: Research on Over-Scheduling in Families
(2011)This thesis explores a number of issues related to the concept of over-scheduling in children and youth. In particular, gender-work issues, media influences and family stress are considered. How over-scheduling is defined ... -
Lighting the Path: Making Friends with Fear
(2012)This thesis is a collection of essays that reflect upon the experience of anxiety as an emotional, mental, and physical experience as well as a relational, societal, existential, and spiritual phenomenon. I offer perspectives ... -
The Lincoln Paradigm: An Educational Vision for the Future
(CreateSpace, 2011)Drawing on lessons included in Abraham Lincoln’s works can help inform adult education practices. This chapter utilizes excerpts from one of Lincoln’s law lectures to highlight points that are important in the delivery, ...
