Research: Recent submissions
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Program Experiences of Men Completing the Reaching for a Good Life Program
(2014-01-16)This presentation will report the findings of a qualitative investigation into the experiences of thirty-one men completing the Reaching for a Good Life program as well as post-group quantitative measures of executive ... -
The utility of portable optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) readers in providing temporal contexts in clastic depositional systems: opportunities in geomorphology
(2014-01-16)The recent development ofa functional portable optically stimulated luminescence (POSL) readers has ushered in new opportunities in geomorphology. Although POSL readers do not necessarily provide absolute ages as in regular ... -
Be Like Winifred: Transferring Images of Colonial Africa to the South Pacific
(2014-01-16)European colonial history is filled with examples of attempts to transfer cultural values, attitudes and beliefs from the metropolis to the colonies. European publishers at first sent textbooks to the colonies without ... -
An Analysis of Client Realism, Virtue Ethics and Comprehensive Justice
(2014-01-16)In this paper I assert that at the foundations of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the Comprehensive Justice Movement (Comprehensive Law Movement / Non-Adversarial Justice) lies in the interplay between client realism and the ... -
Counsellor and Practicum Supervisor Critical Incidents in the Development of Multicultural and Social Justice Competency
(2014-01-16)In many countries, counselling psychology has increasingly attended to the diverse needs of clients within multicultural societies. In North America, emphasis has been placed on nondominant populations, whose experiences ... -
Two School-Based Mental Health Services: One Systemic Approach
(2014-01-16)This presentation focuses on the development, operation, and evolution of two school-based, mental health consultation services operating in private and charter schools in Calgary, AB, Canada. First, I describe the ... -
Matroreform: Evolving to a “New” Motherhood”
(2014-01-16)“New” motherhood is initiated through everyday maternal practices and evolves motherhood at its most fundamental level. In a process called matroreform, women unwittingly and/or intentionally choose what they do and do not ... -
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(2014-01-16)Chair the Section on Women and Psychology (SWAP) annual business meeting, organize and attend the (SWAP) Executive dinner, organize and Chair the (SWAP) Executive Business breakfast meeting at the 74th Annual Convention ... -
Kaska Elders’ Perception of Environmental Change
(2014-01-16)Vegetation change can be driven by recurrent disturbances, such as wild fire, landslips and avalanches, which are recognized by Kaska. Other changes may be driven by climatic change and shifts in weather extremes. All ... -
The Platonic and Aristotelian Mimetic Paradigms In Light of Gans and Heidegger
(2014-01-16)There is an inherent tension in the imaginal scene of representation between its mediating, violence-diffusing role and its sublimatory rendering of alternative satisfaction. A clearer understanding of the way this is ... -
Complexity, Healthcare Systems and the Aporias of Healthcare Reform
(2014-01-16)Paradoxically, “complexity” in health care systems has spurred both an application of complexity theory to health care organizations and a greater assertion of health care’s essentially political nature. This “increasingly ... -
Leading Pedagogical Change
(2014-01-16)According to Keller (2008), changes in many things including technology “constitutes [sic] the most consequential set of changes in society since the late nineteenth century, when the nation went from a largely domestic, ... -
ED.D. Orientation Week
(2013-09-03)Orientation Week for the Doctorate of Education in Distance Education students is a workshop focusing on instruction, distance education theory, program planning, discussions with faculty and colleagues, community-building ... -
Faith-Based Organizations Engaged in the Social Economy: The Example of Catholic Religious Orders and the Mennonites
(2013-08-18)This research report is the second phase of a two-part research program investigating the recent contributions of faith communities to social economy initiatives in Canada. The first phase broadly explored the involvement ... -
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(2013-07-10)Conference description The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers whose interests in the digital economy are positioned at the intersection of social media and the engaged university. Social media ... -
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(2013-07-10)CLA is very excited to launch the program for the 68th CLA National Conference and Trade Show. Outstanding sessions, networking opportunities and more await the attendees in Winnipeg. We look forward to welcoming you. ... -
Collaborating Towards a Global Community: Bridges to the Future Workshops
(2013-07-10)“Collaborating Towards a Global Community: Bridges to the Future” Workshops and sessions at the AACRAO Annual Meeting will demonstrate the development and implementation of a vision that guides decision makers toward ... -
Sharpest Knives in the Drawer: Culture at the Intersection of Oil and State
(2013-07-09)The infusion of the petroleum industry into the social and cultural imaginary goes deep in Alberta, where the oil economy and provincial governments have together shaped discourses of prosperity, identity and citizenship ... -
Information Access, Transparency, and Good Governance: the Alberta record
(2013-07-09)Access to information is recognized worldwide as a crucial component of a democratic state because transparency helps to expose corruption, ensures due process in law, and encourages the citizen engagement that is central ... -
Making Inequality Visible in Management Education, the Academy and the Global Workplace
(2013-07-09)Neoliberalism The neoliberal argument is essentially an economic and political philosophy advocating free markets, deregulation, privatization of public assets, more unencumbered free trade, and less government “interference” ...