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Academic Writing: A Self-Assessment Strategy for Cadence, Fluency, and Vocabulary Choice
(CreateSpace, 2011)Entering graduate students typically demonstrate a wide range of academic writing competencies. The purpose of the instructional practice described in this chapter is to close the writing literacy gaps and raise the standard ... -
Accommodation access by Southern California Community College students with specific learning disabilities
(2019-12-18)Despite the increase of students with disabilities (SWD) attending college, students who self-identify with specific learning disabilities (SLD) are not accessing the accommodations needed to assist them with their academic ... -
Action Plan for Integrating Information Literacy Instruction
(2006-04)Document details a vision formulated in 2006 for the information literacy program at City University (CityU) as a fully integrated, university-wide program that addresses core information literacy competencies and that ... -
Active Online Learning: Implementing the Case Study/Personal Portfolio Method
(CreateSpace, 2011)Students in online classrooms must be prepared with the skills necessary to be successful in the twenty-first century. Pink (2005) stressed that educators must provide learning that not only engages the left-brain thinkers ... -
Adapting the Islands of Safety Model for LGBTQ2S+ Communities
(2016-10-24)The purpose of this study was to gain initial feedback from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, two-spirit and other gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ2S+) counsellors, social workers and anti-violence workers on the ... -
Addiction and Recovery: Examining Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care and Recovery Management
(2021-05)This capstone explores addiction and recovery. The first chapter explores the history of substance use within North America to provide context to modern perceptions of addiction. The moral and disease models of addiction ... -
Addressing Bullying Behaviours Without Labeling the Individual
(2018-05-31)This thesis explores ways of addressing bullying behaviours without labeling the individual. There is a lot of information in the news, research and the media about helping victims of bullying but there seems to be little ... -
Addressing Faith in the Counselling Room: A Phenomenological Exploration of Lived Experience
(2019)Since a large percentage of the world’s population identifies with some sort of religious practice, I believe that as counsellors we need to feel comfortable and competent working not only with those from diverse ethnic ... -
Addressing Internalized Oppression in Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy: Towards a Liberating and Inclusive Clinical Practice
(2016)This document consists of five chapters that attempt to integrate liberating and anti-oppressive concepts and Cognitive-Behavioural principles in psychotherapy. Its purpose is to develop guidelines for cognitive behavioural ... -
Addressing the effects of social media use on adolescents
(2019-11)Communication is humans’ most basic desire and as technology advances, mobile phones and social media provide this by allowing people to connect and by giving a sense of belonging. As of January 2017, approximately 37% of ... -
Adolescent Bereavement: A Nuanced Landscape of Loss
(2015-04)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the topic of adolescent bereavement within the scope of three essays which together comprise a manuscript thesis. Drawing upon both structuralist and postmodern theoretical frameworks, ... -
Advances In Exemplary Instruction
(CreateSpace, 2015)This book is the fourth in the Proven Practices in Higher Education series dedicated to sharing a collection of practices from a group of faculty members at a single university. City University of Seattle (CityU) is a ... -
Advocating with Humility: Improving Access of Treatment Services for Filipino Immigrant Families with Autistic Children in Alberta, Canada
(2020-12-15)Different factors influence access to services for Filipino immigrant families with autistic children in Alberta, Canada. These include the immigration process, the immediate needs of the family as they settle down in their ... -
An Alternative Education Program for At-Risk Students Implemented in a Rural Alberta High School
(2016-03)For over 50 years, schools across North America have implemented a variety of alternative education programs to help address the needs of students who have struggled in traditional school settings. Students who do not ... -
An Analysis of Multiple Measures to Reduce Disproportionality in Accelerated Program Identification
(2021-04-14)Low-income students and students of color are disproportionately identified at lower rates for accelerated programs in K-12 education compared to their peers in the United States. A lack of equitable identification processes ... -
An Analysis of Successful Induction Programs for Early Career Teachers in Rural Central Washington State
(2016-06-25)This qualitative applied research study addressed the challenges public school principals in rural school communities face with regard to retention of provisional teachers. The two research questions that guided this study ... -
Ancestral Healing Supports Anti-Racist Solidarity Building for People of Colour
(2021)This manuscript-style thesis explores ways in which ancestral healing, as a set of practices and a resource, can expand capacity and generate possibilities for accessing and cultivating a felt sense of anti-racist solidarity ... -
Andragogy and the Adult Learner
(CreateSpace, 2016)Pedagogy and andragogy are two theories of learning. Pedagogy requires the students to be dependent upon the teacher for knowledge, and any experiences students may have yield little value. On the other hand, andragogy is ... -
Anti-Oppressive Therapies and Methods of Healing for 2SLGBTQ+ Youth
(2021-06)The resilience and activism stemming from 2SLBGTQ+ communities shaped the modern landscape of mental health counselling as we practice it today. A critical location for violence against 2SLBGTQ+ youth is within institutional ... -
Application of Family Systems Approaches on Intergenerational Conflicts in Asian Immigrant Families
(2021-06)Intergeneration acculturation discrepancy within Asian immigrant families is a major source of intergenerational conflicts, and subsequently, has adverse impacts on the parent-child relationship and immigrant children and ...
