The aim of this thesis was to better understand the impact of different evaluative tasks on student learning by considering the role that learners’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing might have in this relationship. This study explored whether students’ task…

Consensus on physical mechanisms linking work posture to discomfort and disorder risk has not been reached. The objective of this dissertation was to use a series of laboratory studies to identify measurements associated with discomfort and disorder risk in lower…

Resumen en español: En la actualidad existe una amplia gama de estrategias para la conservación del medioambiente diseñadas principalmente sobre criterios de tipo puramente económico, que representan una amenaza tanto para los estilos de vida de numerosos pueblos indígenas como…

Esta investigación ofrece primeramente una categorización de las estrategias de desinformación más comunes, explicadas a la luz de teorías de diferentes campos del conocimiento y contextualizadas a través de análisis de casos históricos y contemporáneos. Posteriormente se ofrece un estudio…

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) have the potential of radically change governments and the way they interact with citizens, businesses and other levels of government. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the conditions, factors, and aspects that are…

La tesis doctoral titulada Conocimientos. representaciones y actitudes de los estudiantes de titulaciones educativas sobre el VIH/SIDA, pretende analizar dos cuestiones fundamentales. La primera de ellas consiste en determinar aquellos conocimientos que poseen ios estudiantes sobre el VIH/SIDA y que…

In 2008, a new course entitled Ethics and Religious Culture was introduced in Quebec for students from first grade to secondary five, with the exception of secondary three students. The implementation of the course was controversial and many parents and…

Situated in a Canadian multiethnic urban neighbourhood, this exploratory study examines the experiences of youth dancing Hip Hop. Critical and performance ethnographic research was conducted at a drop-in Hip Hop class at a community centre using participant observation and dyadic…

This thesis synthesizes different elements of Bourdieu’s writings on practice, politics, and charisma to provide a new interpretation of Egypt and Syria’s three-year merger into a unified state, the United Arab Republic (UAR). It begins with a theoretical chapter that…

This thesis examines variations in specific framing used by the Obama administration and New York Times journalists during the public legitimation process of armed unmanned aerial vehicles. It employs a theoretical framework that examines the socially thick agency created through…