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Support for, and success of, Indigenous students in access programs at four Canadian universities: educators’ perspectives and practices
Get PDFIndigenous and Northern Affairs Canada’s recent report on Indigenous Post-
Secondary Education reported that 10% of Indigenous peoples in Canada hold a
university degree, compared to 26% of non-Indigenous people. Yet, Indian and Northern
Affairs (2011) contend that education is key to future employment and income for
Indigenous peoples. To address this gap, some post-secondary institutions in Canada
provide access programs for Indigenous students. This thesis explored access programs
within four postsecondary institutions in Canada. I asked how educators viewed their
roles in providing academic, cultural, and personal support for Indigenous student
success in these programs. The methodology used was Indigenous Métissage (Donald,
2009) with a desire-based framework (Tuck, 2009). Methods were interviews with
educators using conversation method (Kovach, 2009). Four themes emerged: 1) Building
and maintaining relationships, 2) Responding to the whole student, 3) Empowering
students, and 4) Student success in access programs. The findings reflected educators’
multiple roles within access programs and evoked wise practices (Wesley-Esquimaux &
Calliou, 2010), which informed data analysis. Educators’ practices illuminated
relationality with students in access programs through locally and culturally responsive
practices that strove to balance student needs with university requirements. Conclusions
and recommendations follow. This study contributes educators’ perspectives on
relationality and success for Indigenous students in access programs in Canada
The role of culture in parenting: some Ojibway parents' perspectives
No full textA child welfare court decision to grant the adoption of two Aboriginal children to non-
Aboriginal parents despite the extended family's ability to care for the children and the
community's leaders desire to repatriate their citizens raises two key issues that will be
addressed in this study. The first key issue examines Ojibway parenting and their
responses to common family challenges. The Ojibway culture had and continues to have
pre-existing parenting and child development knowledge but it is largely unknown to
professionals who provide various services to this population, i.e., judges, social workers,
and psychologists. The history and context of Aboriginal families in Canada and the
influence of culture in parenting is explored in the literature. The historical pattern, when
dealing with Aboriginal families in Canada, is to favour ideas or solutions that can be
called "European," or "Western" in origin. This means that Aboriginal ideas or solutions
to their family or parenting problems are ignored or devalued. The second key issue is
that Aboriginal families, First Nations leaders, and Aboriginal service providers have
encountered child welfare court decisions, child welfare policies, and social work practice
that rely on the premises of attachment theory. The (over) reliance on attachment theory
has meant that Aboriginal children have been removed from their parents and/or their
communities when alternative solutions exist. For the above reasons, this study explores
the role of Ojibway culture on urban Ojibway parents' perspectives utilizing a Talking
Circle format. Ojibway participants' words and the meanings attributed to parenting
practices are compared to attachment theory's sensitivity and security constructs.
Urban Ojibway parents lean towards the Ojibway culture for information on parenting
values, practices, perspectives, ceremonies and customs. Relying on Ojibway parenting assumptions and practices that are not supported in an urban environment produces a
discontinuity from participant's childhoods and parenting assumptions. Thus, the urban
context exerts its influence by creating conditions of parenting that previous generations
of Ojibway parents in First Nations communities did not have to consider and solve. The
implications for Ojibway parenting perspectives and practices and the consideration of
using knowledge developed outside of their culture are considered.Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-230)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Youth perspectives of schooling in a Northern-Ontario community
Get PDFIn Ontario, northern, rural youth face disadvantages due to their geographic
location, as the majority of students attending high school, if not relocated to another
community for their studies, must endure daily commutes ranging from 60 to 130
kilometers in order to attend classes. Yet, student-youths’ perspectives on how their
geographic location influences their schooling experiences are currently absent from our
understanding of educational equity in northern, rural contexts. While the literature on
northern, rural education has focused almost exclusively on teacher, leadership and
community perspectives, this study utilized a critical consciousness framework and
interpretative phenomenology analysis with photovoice methods to explore youths’
perceptions of rural education.
Five participants shared their thoughts and experiences through photovoice,
individual interviews and focus groups to explore their rural educational experiences. The
objective of this study was to illuminate the barriers to educational success from an
equity standpoint and to explore innovative approaches with photovoice to capitalize on
the strengths of these students in order to address disparities and to create opportunities
for change in educational policy and practice. The findings highlighted some of the ways
in which spatial, socio-cultural and physical obstacles to learning affect youth
development while emphasizing how the school's climate and teachers contribute to
fostering educational equity and a sense of belonging. Findings also revealed that youth
encounter numerous challenges in their pursuit of secondary education. However, they
manage to overcome these obstacles through the support of their schools, which serve as
safe havens fostering strong relationships within the school community, or by benefiting
from a flexible approach to their education.
In the realm of equitable rural education, this study significantly contributes to the
existing body of literature. Specifically, the present study implies that educational equity
requires a lot of work. It encompasses various aspects, including a willingness to learn,
cooperation, sharing of power, finding resources, harnessing creativity and imagination,
and adjusting attitudes. Lastly, this study amplifies the voices of youth in the discourse
surrounding educational equity in northern, rural schools
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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