Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Canadian Refugee Policy: The Politics of the Frame

Year: 2013, 2013

Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

Name(s): Creator (cre): Colson, Jo Anne, Thesis advisor (ths): Torgerson, Douglas, Thesis advisor (ths): Struthers, James, Degree committee member (dgc): White, Melissa A., Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University

Abstract: <p>This dissertation is an inquiry into the politics of the frame in Canadian refugee policy. It is focused on "framing," thereby taking up the stance of critical policy studies while pressing the contribution of Donald Schön and Martin Rein in a critical and politically inflected direction. The dissertation unfolds as a political history of Canadian refugee policy that provides a… more

Not In Their Classrooms: Class Struggle and Union Strength In Ontario's Elementary Teachers' Unions, 1970-1998

Year: 2013, 2013

Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

Name(s): Creator (cre): Hanson, Andy Bruce, Thesis advisor (ths): Palmer, Bryan, Degree committee member (dgc): Sears, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree committee member (dgc): Warskett, Rosemary, Degree committee member (dgc): Hobbs, Marg, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University

Abstract: <p>This dissertation examines the rise of teachers' union militancy in Ontario through a case study of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario (FWTAO) and the Ontario Public School Teachers' Federation (OPSTF) between 1970 and their amalgamation into the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) in 1998. It uses the archival records of the two… more