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Direct linkLandry, Danielle – Research Papers in Education, 2023
How might those of us located within post-secondary institutions support students who have experience of the mental health system in a meaningful way? Drawing on scholarship in social movement studies and a case study in Ontario, Canada, I distinguish between the prevailing mental health and wellness offerings of educational institutions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Mental Health Programs, Wellness
Daignault, Pénélope; St-Arnaud, Valériane C. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2022
This mixed-methods study relates to the first French Canadian Web media dedicated to promoting climate action in the province of Quebec. The main objectives were to 1) realize a psychographic portrait of Quebeckers regarding climate change information; 2) identify target segments and evaluate their level of interest for different frames and themes…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Climate, Internet, Web Sites
Cindy Hanson – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2024
My social position emerges from years of activism and a rural, working-class history. For decades, I have worked in adult/lifelong learning and development--inside communities and post-secondary institutions--always with the goal of achieving a more just and equitable world. While I aspire to these ideals, I have also had to learn that acts of…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Change, Activism, Global Approach
Liang Cao – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
Drawing on ethnographic data, this article chronicles a Japanese queer immigrant's English learning experiences in a metropolitan area in western Canada. Informed by sociocultural theories and identity-centred approaches to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, I highlight the significance and interconnection between social identity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, LGBTQ People, English Language Learners
Download full textOstertag, Julia; Ammendolia, Justine; Vance, Alexandra; McPherson, Kerri; Hamelin, Kayla M.; Cousineau, Maryse; Daoud, Dounia; Morissette, Lyne; Orren, Kimberly; Hill, Amy; VanderKloet, Evelien; Whoriskey, Fred; Iverson, Sara; Sutherland, Maggie; Denny, Shelley; Beland, Joseph; Syliboy, Alanna; Stokesbury, Michael J. W.; Porter, Darren – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
In this article, we consider the role of ocean literacy in coastal communities as an approach that fosters relevant, community-based learning. We also propose solutions to challenges facing human-ocean relationships by cultivating common understanding and collective action. We present four examples of community-based ocean literacy in…
Descriptors: Community Education, Oceanography, Foreign Countries, Social Action
Moore, Amber – Teaching Education, 2023
This paper explores how teachers in training co-created a canon of texts for teaching about trauma issues, including sexual violence. This paper represents a piece of a larger feminist study where 23 teacher candidate participants took up readings in a sexual trauma text set and responded to pedagogy for teaching such texts with Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Career Readiness, Trauma
Moore, Amber – Action in Teacher Education, 2023
Rape culture and sexual violence have especially entered popular discourse in recent years, largely due to the significant activism of Tarana Burke's #MeToo movement. As such, because educators are increasingly taking up these topics, approaches to such intense subject matter in literacy learning need to be creatively and critically (re)considered…
Descriptors: Rape, Sexual Abuse, Secondary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Tiera Tanksley – Urban Education, 2024
Grounded in critical race theory and a burgeoning field of Black feminist technology studies, this article takes a techno-structural approach to understanding the promise and peril of internet technology to support activism, transformational resistance and counter-storytelling for Black college-agewomen. Qualitative interviews with 17 Black…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Justice, Racial Factors, Social Media
Landry, Julien; von Lieres, Bettina – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
Participedia is a collaborative, digital learning tool for the co-production of knowledge about new forms of citizen participation across the world (www.participedia.net). In this paper, we analyse using the platform as a learning resource for adult learners who are democracy practitioners and for undergraduate students. We examine Participedia's…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Adult Learning, Democracy, Undergraduate Students
McKernan, Christine; Gleddie, Douglas; Storey, Kate – Health Education Journal, 2020
Objective: The school and home environments play a significant role in shaping the health behaviours of children. Understanding students' home environments is essential for teachers to recognise and meet their students' needs, while collaborative partnerships between the school and home have been shown to result in academic success and improved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Centered Learning, Photography, Social Action
Jennifer Gruno; Sandra Gibbons – LEARNing Landscapes, 2024
Experts in public health and education alike have long advocated for the engagement of youth in nature to foster movement, human-nature connectedness, and mental wellbeing. Physical and health education teachers in school-based programs continue to find a variety of ways to help their students be physically active in the natural environment due to…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Community Education, Participatory Research
Styres, Sandra – Power and Education, 2020
This article emerges from an analysis of the data from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded research project that examined the ways two universities were taking up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its Calls to Action. This article focuses on reconcili"action" as critical social action. A…
Descriptors: Universities, Social Action, Foreign Policy, Violence
Lorusso, Jenna R.; Johnson, Ashley M.; Morrison, Hayley J.; Stoddart, Alexandra L.; Borduas, Christopher; Cameron, Nicole; Lim, Christopher; Price, Caitlin – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2020
Background: Over the past couple decades, concerns have been raised regarding graduate student wellbeing and attrition in Canada and abroad. Although research on graduate education has increased in response to these concerns, these works are often focused upon a narrow aspect of the multifaceted reality of graduate education and have not been…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Experience, Photography, Social Action
Poitras Pratt, Yvonne; Danyluk, Patricia; Beech, Sarah; Charlebois, Sarah; Evans, Clancy; Fehr, Alyssa; Nielsen, Amanda; Sanregret, Angela – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2019
In 2016, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars came together to imagine a better world through a bold approach to education at the Werklund School of Education. This imagining took the form of a newly designed graduate pathway program which focused on meaningfully and actively responding to Canada's Truth and Reconciliation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Graduate Students, Service Learning
Kee, J. Célèste; Carr-Chellman, Davin J. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2019
Using several case studies drawn from Freire's cultural context and contemporary Canadian Indigenous resistance movements, this article questions whether a Freirean approach to critical literacy can work with Indigenous literacy needs without reproducing colonial power structures. It also seeks to examine current scholarship in the literacy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Critical Theory
