Education Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Education, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A Situational Analysis of Municipal Early Childhood Education Policy Documents, Maureen Cullen
Teachers’ Professional Practice, Policy Enactment, And Indigenous Education In Ontario: A Case Study, Natalie Currie-Patterson
Immigrant Perpetrators of Domestic Homicide: Unique Risks and Service Needs, Randal David
Barriers to Policewomen's Promotion: An Ontario Case Study, Susan Dick
Teaching for Equity: A Case Study of Teachers’, Vice Principals’, and Principals’ Perspectives in Three High-Poverty Elementary Schools in Ontario, Canada, Abhilasha Duggal
How to support caregivers and the bereaved: Psychoeducation and personal coping techniques, Vanessa Eva Marie Eyre
The Predictive Validity of IELTS Scores: A Meta-Analysis, Tomlin Gagen
An Analysis of Social Media Use Within and Outside of College English Classes in China, Yuze Gao
An Exploration of Collaboration In Indigenous Language Revitalization In A First Nation Community, Sara General
Inclusion of Muslim Students in Ontario Public Education: A Qualitative Inquiry of Elementary School Principals, Farah Ghonaim
Prior Help-Seeking and Intuition of Danger in Domestic Homicide Victims., Kristina Giacobbe
Experiences of Social Inclusion and Exclusion of Deaf Children, Nicole R. Hiebert
A Critical Analysis of OECD's 'Global Competence' Framework, Britney Hunter
To What Extent Do L1 Speakers and L2 Learners Have Productive Derivational Knowledge, Emi Iwaizumi
Seeking the Global Generation:A Comparative Case Study of Youth from Canada, Georgia, and Saudi, Eva Jaberi
School Success After Trauma: Examining the Parallels Among Trauma, Bullying, and School Disengagement, Mikayla Jeffery
Help Wanted: Investigating Help-Seeking Behaviour Among Post-Secondary Students in Relation to Their Mental Health and Well-Being, Stephanie Karam
English Language Teacher Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Michael James Karas
Pilot and Adaptation of a Social-Emotional Learning Program in Youth Justice Settings, Amanda J. Kerry
Can I Lend a Hand? Investigating the Promotion of Student Resiliency in a University Setting, Kevin Spencer Kilarski
Investigating The Design Of An Aesthetic Mathematical Experience, Maryam Koozehkanani
Death of the Clinic: Trans-Informing the Clinical Gaze to Counter Epistemic Violence, Diana E. Kuhl
Growing Citizens: Students’ Social Emotional Learning via School Gardens, Kathryn Markham-Petro
The Association Between Child and Youth Mental Health Service Urgency and Exposure to Childhood Interpersonal Trauma, Catherine Marshall
Inclusion and Policy Enactment in Teacher Education: A Focus on Pre-service Teacher Preparation for the Inclusive Classroom, Ayman Massouti
Promoting Mentally Healthy Classrooms: Evaluation of Online Mental Health Literacy Instruction in Pre-Service Teacher Education, E. Robyn Masters
The Educational Experiences of Female Latin American Students in Ontario: An Intersectional Analysis, Phillipa Myers
The Role of Child Protection Services in Preventing Child and Adult Domestic Homicides: Missed Opportunities and Barriers to Change, Laura Olszowy
Exploring the Perceived Effects of Student Online Sharing of Environmental Artwork, Jocelyn Perras
Intercultural Experience and Learning Among EAP International Students, Joan M. Plonski
The Impact of Maltreatment on Children and Youth: Exploring the Potential Mediating Effects of Resilience to Traumatic Life Events, Rebecca Pschibul
Dating Violence and Homicide with Younger Adults: Are We Taking the Dangers Seriously Enough?, Corinne Qureshi
Exploring the Relationships among Executive Functioning, Behaviour, and Adaptive Skills in Young Children, Melissa Read
Missed opportunities for saving children from domestic homicide: Implications for prevention, intervention, & community collaboration, Katherine Reif
Social-Emotional Competencies In Pre-service Teachers, Lilia Arely Rodriguez Alcocer
Female and Male Perpetrators of Domestic Homicide: A Gendered Phenomenon?, Jackie Salas
Police Prevention of Domestic Homicide: Missed Opportunities and Barriers to Change, Michael D. Saxton
Reading Comprehension and Strategy Use in English Language Learners and Monolingual Children, Katherine Schmidt
Adolescents’ Perceptions and Responses to Peer Mental Health Challenges and Problematic Behaviours Following a Social-Emotional Learning Program, Jessica Sommers
A Developmental and Symptom-level Approach to Comorbid Mental Health Disorders in Children, Elizabeth Thornley
Multimodal Dissertations: Opportunities for Multimodality in Higher Education, Annie Tran
Investigating the Effects of Parent Dispositional Mindfulness, Parent-Child Conflict and Stress on Children's Self-Regulation, Cassandra Trevisani
Reflections of Mentoring for Indigenous Youth In the Fourth R, Elisa Trovarello
Does Lexical Frequency affect rater judgement of essays? An experimental design using quantitative and qualitative data, Mohammad Muneer Ul-Huda
Interrupting the "Model Minority" Narrative: The Voices of Vietnamese Canadian Youth, Vi Vo
From Expectation To Experience: My Changing Identity As A Chinese International Student, Yin Wang
Nonsuicidal and Suicidal Intent Among Children and Youth with Histories of Trauma: The Role of Protective Factors, Rebecca West
Adolescents with FASD: Education-Based Strategies for Social Skills Development, Samantha Louise Wiendels
Routes to a Western Undergraduate Degree: Chinese Families’ Mobilization of Capital and Flexible Citizenship, Qinghua Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Ontario Teachers' Understanding and Practices of Reform Instruction: A Case Study of Constructivism, Nehal Aldamigh
A Mixed Methods Study: The Impact of Self-Regulated Learning on L2 Writing and Strategy Use, Mohammed Almazloum
Discourses of Creativity in Ontario Kindergarten Curriculum, Beatrix Bocazar
Post-Traumatic Growth and Pregnancy: Exploring the Experiences of Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, Alexandra Canzonieri
A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Current Anti-bullying Policies in Ontario, Zhu Cheng
The ‘Meanings’ and ‘Enactments’ of Science and Technology: ANT-Mobilities’ Analysis of Two Cases, Farrukh Chishtie
Students' Perspectives on Educational Acceleration, Lynn Dare
Sahuhlúkhane’ Ukwehuwenéha They Learned to Speak it Again: An Investigation into the Regeneration of the Oneida Language, Rebecca Doxtator
A Case Study of Students' Experiences and Nursing Educators' Leadership Practices to Facilitate RPN to BScN Professional Socialization, Susan L. Eldred
Reading Comprehension and Strategy Use in Fourth- and Fifth-Grade French Immersion Students, Bailey Frid
Syrian Refugee Women’s Perspectives About Their University Experiences: A Case Study at a University in Ontario, Huda Ghadban
A study of respiratory therapy and medical radiation technology faculty who transitioned from clinical practice into academia: their transition experiences, and perceptions of students with disabilities., Christine M. Griffith
Measuring Mental Health Literacy in Education, Amy K. Hatcher
Barriers and Facilitators to Positive Mental Health on a University Campus, Sheldon Hill
Incidental Vocabulary Learning through Listening to Teacher Talk, Zhouhan Jin
Learning lessons from The Impacts of Relocating Indigenous Scholars For Academic Appointments, Andrew Judge
Risk Factors for Domestic Homicide: Immigrant & Canadian-born Populations, Sakthi Kalaichandran
An Exploratory Case Study of a Quality Assurance Process at an Ontario University, Grase Kim
Social Emotional Learning Policy and Its Implementation in One School District in British Columbia, Jenny Kim
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Crossover Youth: The Pathway to Development and the Relationship with Life-Time Offending, Hailey Kolpin
Social Transformation and Investment in Spanish Language Learning Through International Service Learning: A Case Study, Jennifer Kozak
Multiliteracies meaning-making: How four boys’ video gaming experiences influence their cultural knowledge—Two ethnographic cases, Carol Ann Lane
Gay-Straight Alliances and Student Activism in Ontario Public Secular and Catholic High Schools, Alicia A. Lapointe
Third- and Fourth-Graders’ Perspectives on Social Exclusion: A Group Concept Mapping Study, Tsz-Wing Zita Lau
Community of Practice: Adult’s Informal Learning in an Online English Learning Community in China, Ran Li
Disabilities, Masculinities and Schooling: A Narrative Inquiry into the Stories Lived by Boys and Men with Physical Disabilities, David J. Mara
Exploring Teachers’ Experiences of Parental Leave Policies in One School Board in Ontario, Rachelle Martin
Leadership in a Complex Adaptive System: An Exploratory Case Study of One Faculty at a Canadian Post-Secondary Educational Organization, Helen Mawdsley
Skills and Student Affairs: A Discourse Analysis, Shannon McKechnie
Trends, affordances, and implications for learners' literacy and identity options: A systematic review of studies on transnational education, Bethany C. McKishnie
The Currents of Learning Motivation: Learners’ Stories From Arts-Integrated, Regular Classroom Landscapes, Irene Melabiotis
Exploring Dimensions of Vulnerability in Victims of Domestic Homicide, Natalia Musielak
Comorbid Depression and Substance Abuse in Perpetrators of Domestic Homicide, Casey Oliver
Students’ and Parents’ Perspectives on the Social Inclusion of Secondary School Students with Learning Difficulties, Jennifer E. Richardson
Pre-service Teachers' Science and Web 2.0 Affect and Aspiration: A Survey Study, Yu Song
Exploring Children’s Self-Regulation for Learning within a Mindfulness-Based Social and Emotional Learning Program, Devon M. Trower
Incidental learning of L2 technical vocabulary through repeated reading of academic texts, Yuning Wang
Strategic Leadership Approaches at High-Performing Ontario Public Colleges, Jeffrey D. Wright
The Quest for World-Class Universities in China: Examining Faculty Members’ Subjectivities under the Logics of Neoliberal Globalization, Bailing Zhang