RSS 1.0Portfolios (Master of Education)
Recent Submissions
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Where I sit: an autoethnography of being/becoming a neurodiverse student
(2025)This SSHRC-funded autoethnographic portfolio explores the lived experiences of a neurodiverse university student through transformative multimedia story-making. Drawing from the researcher's personal journey with anxiety, ... -
Teaching through the tensions: dwelling in multiple accountabilities and responsibilities as a scholar-activist educator
(2025)This portfolio explores the experiences of a twenty-first century educator (myself) in my role as a white settler educator working in a unique high school education model, in a diverse urban context in Winnipeg, Manitoba, ... -
Developing ecologically conscious macro-models embedded in Gandhi’s educational philosophy for Indian K12 Schooling: a Teacher’s handbook
(2024)The need for a transformative approach to environmental education has become more pressing as traditional teaching methods often fail to foster deep ecological understanding and sustainable behaviors among students. This ... -
Project-based learning activities as a pedagogy that encourages future 'change makers'
(2024)This portfolio argues that project-based learning is an effective environmental education pedagogy to empower future change makers. The deliverables of this portfolio are two cross-curricular resource bundles, Stephany ... -
Integration and experiences of immigrants within Canada
(2024)This portfolio was created with the goal of better understanding and closely examining the various difficulties and barriers that newly landed immigrants face upon entering Canadian society. Immigrants make up a large ... -
Literature instruction: using a critical and social lens
(2024)Social change depends on the actions of the citizens of tomorrow. Without creating changes to the curriculum and to the perspectives from which we teach, the likelihood of producing social change is lessened. The main ... -
Awakening Ontario educators to treaty stories: exploring the possibilities of disruptive treaty scripting as professional development
(2024)I need to tell you a story. My name is Denise Petitpas and I am a French-Canadian, Ontario school teacher. Specifically, I am Franco-Ontarian, and my surname Petitpas, comes from one of the first forty families to settle ... -
Decolonizing environmental science education: (Re)storying relations for settler educator unsettling
(2024)The purpose of this portfolio is to emphasize, demonstrate, and role-model the inherent responsibility that all settler educators have in decolonizing their own ways of knowing, being, doing and belonging before they can ... -
Changing channels: altering the dis-course of “invasive” species education
(2022)This portfolio is focused on two discourses around "invasive" species, namely the dominant Western science narratives that emphasize elimination, control, and management and an Indigenous perspective that takes a longer ... -
Embracing neurodiversity in education: promoting the inclusion of autistic students in education through podcasts
(2023)The purpose of this portfolio is to share how students with an autism diagnosis can benefit when their teachers, principals, guidance counselors, and peers learn about neurodiversity. In my project, I asked the following ... -
Malleable multiplication: the use of multiplication strategies and gamification to create conceptual understanding
(2023)I have always considered math to be both my friend and foe. The parts of math I enjoy are algebra, trigonometry, and multiplication. I could find solace in math that was formulaic and had clear instructions. At times ... -
Environmental emotions, environmental social justice, and hope
(2023)Educators are faced with teaching their students about subjects such as climate change, the mass extinction of species, and environmental degradation while trying to encourage a love of nature and pro-environmental ... -
Labyrinth learning : a 360-degree community service digital ecology
(2022)Labyrinth Learning – A 360 Degree Community Service Digital Ecology is a Master’s Portfolio organized around the Lakehead Labyrinth Project at Lakehead University’s campus between 2017-2022. With text, images, video, ... -
Power in the Image | Visual Literacy in the Age of COVID-19
(2022)The aim of this portfolio is to explore a journey of research examining the role of photography and visual literacy in contemporary society through the lens of COVID-19 media coverage, attending to the misrepresentation ... -
Say my name: name-based racial microaggressions in Ontario’s K-12 school system
(2022)Names have long been connected with an individual’s perception of themselves and their identities. Studies have shown that negative experiences with one’s name can impact a student’s sense of self and belonging, and their ... -
Critical assessment for transformative education: for people and the planet
(2022)The purpose of this portfolio is to review the relevant academic literature from environmental and social justice education, as well as assessment and evaluation, to make the case for critical assessment and evaluation ... -
Decolonizing (for settlers): a pedagogical framework for enacting responsibilities
(2021)The first section of this portfolio offers a grounding of core concepts central to the framework, specifically an explanation of settler colonialism, why use the terms Indigenous and settler, and what decolonization ... -
A guide to teaching in Nunavut
(2021)What you can expect from this portfolio is a personal introduction, a brief summary on the near absolute lack of Nunavut teaching guides, followed by a Nunavut teaching guide. More accurately, I’ll be providing a cultural ... -
Restoring falsifiability to high school physics education
(2021)The idea that scientific theories and conclusions are provisionally true is essential for students to understand. There are limitations as to what passes for science and epistemological limitations to scientific knowledge. ...
