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Writing the Futures Imaginary: Digital Arts-Based Inquiry and the Futures Literacies of Teacher Candidates
Author: Rachel Horst
Supervisors: Dr. Kedrick James and Dr. Leah Macfadyen

March 2024

(Re)Mapping Youth Mobilities and Citizenships with Young Adult Literature
Author: Caroline Hamilton
Supervisors: Dr. Theresa Rogers
March 2024
Living with Violence on Social Media: An Exploration of Colombian Young Adults’ Encounters with Online Harms
Author: Esteban Morales
Supervisors: Dr. Leah Macfadyen
January 2024
Illuminating (Dis)enlightenment: Critical Media Literacy and/or Conspiracy Theories?
Author: Yuya Takeda
Supervisors: Dr. Ryuko Kubota
September 2023
Transcultural Identity and Bangla Heritage Language Teaching
Author: Asma Afreen
Supervisors: Dr. Bonny Norton
July 2023
Digital Multimodal Composing with Youth from Refugee and Immigrant Backgrounds in a Metro Vancouver Secondary School
Author: Amir Michalovic
Supervisors: Drs. Maureen Kendrick and Margaret Early
May 2023
Reading the South in the North: A study of Latin American literature in Vancouver teaching contexts
Author: Magdalena Vergara
Supervisors: Dr. Teresa Dobson
March 2023
New hierarchies, new elites: A critical ethnography of English as a medium of instruction policy in Nepali public schools
Author: Pramod Sah
Supervisors: Dr. Guofang Li
May 2022
An Investigation Into the Nature of First Language Dissociation, and Its Causes in Japanese-English Late Plurilinguals
Author: Ashley Russell Moore
Supervisors: Dr. Ryuko Kubota
March 2022
Listening to Stories: Collaborating with Children and Their Teacher to Explore the Communicative Repertoires of Young Emergent Bilinguals
Author: Harini Rajagopal
Supervisors: Dr. Maureen Kendrick and Dr. Jim Anderson
November 2021
English for Academic Purposes in Canada: Practitioners’ Assessment Practices and Construction of Assessment Literacy
Author: Shahid Abrar-ul-Hassan
Supervisors: Dr. Lee Gunderson
November 2021
‘All the feels’ — Exploring Educators’ Embodied Experiences of Sexual Education
Author: Kaye Hare
Supervisors: Dr. Kedrick James and Dr. Theresa Rogers
November 2021
Poetic Inquiry: Current Approaches and Future Applications
Author: Adam Vincent
Supervisors: Dr. Kedrick James and Dr. Derek Gladwin
August 2021
Transnational Long-Term Learners of Chinese as Peer Mentors: Language Socialization, Online Learning, and Identity
Author: Liam Doherty
Supervisors: Dr. Patricia Duff
July 2021
Exploring Teacher Candidates’ Responses to Teaching Sexual Assault Narratives
Author: Amber Moore
Supervisors: Dr. Mary K. Bryson and Dr. Annette Henry
June 2021
Pray Where Waters Meet: Land-Based Métissage, Ethical Relationality and Reconciliation
Author: Margaret McKeon
Supervisors: Dr. George Belliveau and Dr. Derek Gladwin
May 2021
Language and Literacy Practices (LLPs) of Hairdressers in the Botswana Multilingual Context: Implications for Occupational Literacy Development in Vocational Training
Author: Penny Moanakwena
Supervisors: Dr. Theresa Rogers
May 2021
After Exile: Heritage Language and Literacy Socialization Across Three Generations in one Chilean-Canadian Family
Author: Ava Becker
Supervisors: Dr. Patsy Duff
March, 2021
Rethinking “Family” in a Family Literacy Program: A Canadian Case Study
Author: Michelle Gilman
Supervisors: Dr. Bonny Norton
March, 2021
The Promise of Returning Home after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Author: Bonnie Nish
Supervisors: Dr. George Belliveau, Dr. Kedrick James
December, 2020
Managing the Gap: Exploring the Multimodal Literacy Instruction of a Student with Learning Disabilities
Author: Lisa Chang
Supervisors: Dr. Marlene Asselin
September, 2020
Forgotten Refugees: Understanding the Language and Literacy Practices of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan
Author: Assadullah Sadiq
Supervisors: Dr. Jim Anderson, Dr. Marianne McTavish
September, 2020
Reading the Cuts: A Novel Posthuman Digital Visual Method for Examining Images of the Self on Social Media
Author: Kathleen Warfield
Supervisors: Dr. Theresa Rogers
January, 2020
Using Digital Technologies to Enhance First-Year Students’ Learning in a Communication and Academic Literacy Course
Author: Brigid Conteh
Supervisors: Dr. Theresa Rogers, Dr. Marlene Asselin
December, 2019
Multilingual Undergraduate Writers’ Discourse Socialization in a Sheltered Academic English Program
Author: John Haggerty
Supervisors: Dr. Ling Shi
October, 2019
Embodying Indigenous Coast Salish Education: Travelling with Xe:ls the Sister, Mapping Katzie/qicəy Stories and Pedagogies
Author: Kerrie Charnley
Supervisors: Dr. Jim Anderson, Dr. Archibald Jo-Ann
October, 2019
The Virtual Renaissance: Self-Consciousness Through Literacy/Technology
Author: Kyle Stooshnov
Supervisors: Dr. George Belliveau, Dr. Kedrick James
September, 2019
Cancer’s Margins: Sexual and Gender Marginality and the Biopolitics of Knowledge
Author: Evan Taylor
Supervisors: Dr. Mary Bryson
August, 2019
Exchanging Stories: A Narrative Ethnography of Immigrant Seniors’ English Language Learning Experiences
Author: Natalia Balyasnikova
Supervisors: Dr. Ryuko Kubota
July, 2019
Poetic Inquiry: My Journey in Language
Author: Botao Wu
Supervisors: Dr. George Belliveau
May, 2019
Processes of Academic Source-Based Writing in Graduate School: A Socio-Pedagogical Approach to Students’ Interactions with Source Texts
Author: Nasrin Kowkabi
Supervisors: Dr. Ling Shi
March, 2019
DIGITAL IDENTITIES, EDUCATIONAL INEQUITIES: Investigating social class and new literacies of migrant Filipino youth in the knowledge economy
Author: Ron Darvin
Supervisors: Dr. Bonny Norton
December, 2018
Peer language socialization in an internationalized study abroad context: Norms for talking about language
Author: Victoria Surtees
Supervisors: Dr. Patricia Duff
November, 2018
Designing Learning Experiences with Equity-Seeking Youth: Strength-Based Strategies for Sustaining Culture, Community and Creativity
Author: Anna Keefe
Supervisors: Dr. Maureen Kendrick
October, 2018
Empire of the Son: Using Research-Based Theatre to Explore Family Relationships
Author: Tetsuro Shigematsu
Supervisors: Dr. George Belliveau
October, 2018
An Examination of Young Children’s Digital Literacy Practices in the Home Before and During the Transition to Kindergarten
Author: Laura Teichert
Supervisors: Dr. Jim Anderson
September, 2018
Visualizing Visual Literacy
Author: Ernesto Jose Pena Alonso
Supervisors: Dr. Teresa Dobson, Dr. Kedrick James
June, 2018
Red Tears of Pearl: Making Space for Afghan-Canadian Muslim Diasporas In Postcolonial Literature
Author: Rahela Nayebzadah
Supervisors: Dr. Carl Leggo, Dr. Paul St.Pierre
June, 2018
The Iconic Polar Bear: Visual Rhetoric in Environmental Documentaries
Author: Claire Ahn
Supervisors: Dr. Teresa Dobson, Dr. Kedrick James
May, 2018
From Language Learners to Bilingual Providers: Second Language Socialization of Bilingual Mothers in South Korea
Author: Bong-gi Sohn
Supervisors: Dr. Steven Talmy, Dr. Ryuko Kubota
March, 2018
Land Education and Reconciliation: Exploring Educators’ Practice
Author: Christine Bridge
Supervisors: Dr. Teresa Dobson, Dr. Jan Hare
March, 2018
Emerging Scholars’ Socialization into Scholarly Publication: Negotiating Identities and Investments in a Neoliberal Era
Author: Ismaeil Fazel
Supervisors: Dr. Ling Shi
February, 2018
Mapping the Early Literacy Ecology of Children with Disabilities in their Homes and Communities: Perspectives from Parents and Children’s Librarians
Author: Teresa Prendergast
Supervisors: Dr. Jim Anderson
February, 2018
Pedagogical Relations of Listening and Becoming in Children’s Everyday Literacies: In Conversation with Ted Aoki
Author: Janet Pletz
Supervisors: Dr. Carl Leggo, Dr. Erika Hasebe-Ludt
November, 2017
The African Storybook and Teacher Identity
Author: Espen Stranger-Johannessen
Supervisors: Dr. Bonny Norton
December, 2017
The Writing Center as a Global Pedagogy: A Case Study of an Internationalizing University in Japan
Author: Tomoyo Otani (Okuda)
Supervisors: Dr. Ryuko Kubota, Dr. Ling Shi
September, 2017
Who’s the ‘Write’ Girl: A Poetic Inquiry
Author: Abby Wener Herlin
Supervisors: Dr. Carl Leggo
July, 2017
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