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- Alice Macpherson (Author)
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- Peer Tutor Training and Education, The Learning Centres, Integration, Level III
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- The Tutor Training Integration Exercises continue from the Tutor Foundation Training and can be implemented through face-to-face sessions or by using a learning Management System for exercises and documents as well as working with a Tutor’s Instructional Associate, other members of the Learning...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 49.1044302, -122.80109400000003
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- Christopher Howell (author)
- Author Keywords
- anarchism, communal anarchism, authoritarianism, Canadian state, coercion, cohesion, community, KPU Critical Criminology Working Group
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- Anarchism is a radical social-political theory that aims to deconstruct the State in order to empower every one; empower by granting liberty and equality. An old saying of Bakunin is paraphrased, “equality without liberty is tyranny, liberty without equality is gross injustice” (Shantz, 2013)....
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- info:fedora/kora:studentwork
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- Christina Page (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2020-08-24
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- Writing and learning centre professionals have expertise in supporting the development of academic literacies but are typically positioned outside of departmental contexts, limiting their interaction with instructors in the disciplines. Small scale initiatives towards meaningful collaboration...
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- Noemi Gal-Or (author)
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- terrorism, anti-terrorism law, anti-terrorism security, international relations
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- The events of 9/11 have forced upon the entire community of Western states a re-assessment of their respective anti-terrorism policies and laws. It released an intense discussion seeking to update and recharacterize the post-9/11 state of international relations producing a wave of renewed...
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- Gira Bhatt (author), Randal G. Tonks (author), John W. Berry (author)
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- acculturation, Canada, cross-cultural psychology, culture, cultural psychology, history, indigenous psychology, intercultural psychology, multiculturalism
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- Culture as a theoretical construct and an empirical variable evolved steadily in the history of psychology in Canada. This historical account is offered to record important contributions made by Canadian psychologists to the understanding of culture, both within the Canadian context, and...
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- Roger Tweed (Author), Robert Biswas-Diener (Author), Darrin R. Lehman (Author)
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- homelessness, homeless, strengths, character strengths, positive psychology, community psychology
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- This study examined self-perceived strengths among 116 people who were homeless. Those who had experienced a longer period of current homelessness tended to report fewer personal strengths(r= -0.23). Nonetheless, in spite of their marginalized position in society, the vast majority of...
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- 49.2827291, -123.12073750000002
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- Jacqueline Whyte Appleby (Author), Jeanette Hatherill (Author), Andrea Kosavic (Author), Karen Meijer-Kline (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2018-01-08
- Author Keywords
- library publishing, journal hosting, journal publishing
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- INTRODUCTION This paper explores the variability in self-identifying practices of academic libraries engaged in journal publishing and hosting activities. We were interested in how libraries characterized their efforts in this area and looked at whether there is an unspoken threshold for...
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- Päivi Koskinen (author), Solveiga Armoskaite (author)
- Author Keywords
- ideophones, morphology, Finnish language
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- Gira Bhatt (author), Roger Tweed (author), Steve Dooley (author), Jodi Viljoen (author), Kevin Douglas (author), Nathalie Gagnon (author), Kashmir Besla (author)
- Author Keywords
- Adolescence, Gender differences, personality, Character Strengths, adolescents - attitudes, Violence
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- Most gang-involved youth in Canada are predominantly males (94%) and between the age of 16 and 18 (Youth Gangs in Canada, 2007). However, young adolescent girls are now increasingly seen among youth gangs (Girls, Gangs, and Sexual Exploitation in British Columbia, 2010). Within the strength-based...
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- info:fedora/kora:atcura
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- 49.183333, -122.85000000000002
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- Alice Macpherson (Author)
- Author Keywords
- Tutor Training and Education, The Learning Centres, Level III
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- Tutoring is a key element in the wide range of student learning support services provided by the Learning Centres at KPU. The word tutor comes from late Middle English: from Old French tutour or Latin tutor, from tueri 'to watch, guard'. Ross MacDonald, in his guidebook The Master Tutor, refers...
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- 49.1044302, -122.80109400000003
- Contributors
- Alice Macpherson (Author)
- Author Keywords
- Peer Tutor Training and Education, The Learning Centres, Level I
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- The Peer Tutor Trainer Handbook is the supporting documentation for Trainers working with Tutor Trainees to develop their capabilities as Peer Tutors within Learning Centre environment. This begins with the Tutor Foundation Training and is recommended to be implemented through face-to-face...
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- 49.1044302, -122.80109400000003
- Contributors
- Alice Macpherson (Author)
- Author Keywords
- Peer Tutor Training and Education, The Learning Centres, Level II
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- The Peer Tutor Trainer Handbook is the supporting documentation for Trainers working with Tutor Trainees to develop their capabilities as Peer Tutors within Learning Centre environment. This begins with the Tutor Foundation Training and is recommended to be implemented through face-to-face...
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- 49.1044302, -122.80109400000003
- Contributors
- Alice Macpherson (Author)
- Author Keywords
- Peer Tutor Training and Education, The Learning Centres, Level III
- Abstract
- The Peer Tutor Trainer Handbook is the supporting documentation for Trainers working with Tutor Trainees to develop their capabilities as Peer Tutors within Learning Centre environment. This begins with the Tutor Foundation Training and is recommended to be implemented through face-to-face...
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- 49.1044302, -122.80109400000003
- Contributors
- Alice Macpherson (Author)
- Author Keywords
- multicultural education, discrimination in higher education, affirmative action programs
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- This thesis is a qualitative study of the experience of nine facilitators using Gender And Diversity, Creating Inclusion In The College Environment curriculum in BC south coast post secondary institutions. This self-selected group of nine instructors from various post-secondary institution...
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- 49.183333, -122.85000000000002
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- Natalie (Tally) Wade (author), Alice Macpherson (author)
- Author Keywords
- emergency communications, police call taking, public safety communications, 911, call processing
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- The Call Taking Basics for Emergency Services – Police presents an overview of the knowledge that police call takers will need beginning their careers. Topics identified include: teamwork, critical incident stress, questioning techniques, problem solving, liability, criminal and civil law, as...
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 49.1016121, -122.72071240000002
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- Yang (Karl) Li (Author), Greg Simmons (Thesis advisor)
- Date Issued
- 2022-06-30
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- Criminology is presently contested in ways beyond ethical and political argument, often ranging to implicit ontological wrangling. This thesis is an attempt to more explicit these and other issues. This project investigates phenomenological intersubjectivities and invariances with contemporary...
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- info:fedora/kora:theses
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- Jana Skorstengaard (Author)
- Date Issued
- 2019-04
- Author Keywords
- prison, feminist theory, corrections, alternative interventions, correctional programs, women, Indigenous women, Corrections Canada
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- Prisons are spaces of violence that strip autonomy and a sense of personal identity from prisoners. Art and arts-based programming can not only be a way to combat the monotony of prison life, but to build communication skills, increase self-esteem, and help prisoners to build better relationships...
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- Noemi Gal-Or (author)
- Author Keywords
- regional market integration, alternative dispute resolution, free trade, arbitration, mediation, non-tariff barriers, NAFTA
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 48.9569842, -120.77880299999998
- Contributors
- Shelley Boyd (author)
- Author Keywords
- Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam, breakfast, storytelling, reproduction, egg symbolism, overconsumption, ustopia, hope, utopia, dystopia
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- In the third novel of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, breakfast creates a sense of hope and adaptability in the most dire of dystopias. In this postpandemic world where civilization is all but destroyed, the human survivors, who form a makeshift community with the Crakers, initially cling to...
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- Cherylynn Bassani (author)
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- primary education, textbooks, cultural diversity, ethnic representation
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- info:fedora/kora:publications
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- 53.7266683, -127.64762059999998