M.A. Child and Youth Studies
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Priming Prosocial Behavior to Augment Bystander Interventions in Bullying Situations
(Brock University, 2014-08-19)Bullying is a harmful phenomenon wherein victims have difficulty defending themselves. Bystanders have been identified as a potentially effective group for reducing bullying. The goal of this research is to determine whether ... -
Predicting Physical, Verbal, Social, Racial, and Sexual Bullying with Individual and Environmental Factors from an Evolutionary Ecological Framework
(Brock University, 2014-08-18)Evidence exists for subtypes of bullying, but there is a lack of studies simultaneously investigating the factors that influence each subtype. The purpose of my thesis was to investigate how individual and environmental ... -
In danger of jammed minds: A deconstructive discourse analysis of the criteria for early onset schizophrenia and imagination in children's literature
(Brock University, 2014-07-25)The purpose of this research is to expose and complicate those discourses of childhood imagination as demonstrated in the diagnostic criteria for early onset schizophrenia by using an antipsychiatry perspective. This will ... -
Task-Dependent Oscillatory Brain Activity During Oculomotor Delayed Response Task
(Brock University, 2014-05-01)This study used three Oculomotor Delayed Response (ODR) tasks to investigate the unique cognitive demands during the delay period. Changes in alpha power were used to index cognitive efforts during the delay period. ... -
Bridging the Conceptualization of Youth with Intellectual Disabilities to Sentencing under the YCJA
(Brock University, 2014-04-29)The current study examined how disability and the concepts of risk, need and responsivity are understood by criminal justice professionals and inform their perceptions of young offenders with ID at sentencing under the ... -
A Masters Student’s Journey: Trying to Balance Two Eyes of Research
(Brock University, 2014-04-26)This project is about a reflective research journey taken by a Masters student in the Child and Youth Studies Department at Brock University in St. Catharines Ontario. This journey consisted of a mixed method approach using ... -
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Critical Media Literacy and Disney Female Characters
(Brock University, 2014-04-01)The purpose of this research project was to use a qualitative approach to explore Critical Media Literacy (CML) with young girls by collaboratively analyzing Disney animated films. My goal was to provide a safe and encouraging ... -
Bullying, cyberbullying & sexuality: “Everyone needs a good friend”
(Brock University, 2014-03-24)Bullying is a pervasive social issue that occurs in numerous contexts and is particularly recognized in populations that are easily targeted. Individuals who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Questioning (LGBQ) are ... -
A Case Study of the "Who is NOBODY?" Project: A Character Development Program for Children with Learning Disabilities
(Brock University, 2014-02-21)This research study explored a support system for children with learning disabilities. The Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara Region (LDANR) recently expanded its Better Emotional and Social Times (B.E.S.T.) ... -
Handwriting Intervention: Impact on the Reading and Writing Abilities of High School Students
(Brock University, 2013-10-09)Handwriting is a functional task that is used to communicate thoughts using a written code. Research findings have indicated that handwriting is related to learning to read and learning to write. The purposes of this ... -
Electrophysiology of Oculomotor Delayed Response Tasks: A Model for the Maturation of Visual-Spatial Working Memory Networks
(Brock University, 2013-09-11)In the literature, persistent neural activity over frontal and parietal areas during the delay period of oculomotor delayed response (ODR) tasks has been interpreted as an active representation of task relevant information ... -
A Continuum of Traversing Lines: Youth Political Participation in Gaia Online
(Brock University, 2013-09-11)This qualitative research project uses a Deleuzo-Guattarian theoretical framework to address the question: “How are the politically oriented social forums in Gaia Online experienced as a continuum of overlapping of lines, ... -
Weighing the Details: Gender Dualisms in Lightweight Women's Rowing
(Brock University, 2013-09-11)The purpose of this research project was to explore how women lightweight rowers in Ontario negotiate their gender and body identity. Through a feminist post-structural lens I investigated both ‘acceptable’ and contradictory ... -
Exploring perspectives about sexuality among Ghanaian youth living in Canada: Understanding the impact of cultural contact.
(Brock University, 2013-09-11)Research on sexuality in Ghana has been scanty due to the nature of the Ghanaian society where sensitive issues like sexuality are not openly discussed and researched. This qualitative study examined how social contact ... -
Unaccompanied minors in Canada: How social and legal services affect their lives in Ontario
(Brock University, 2013-09-11)This qualitative research examines how service provisions affect lives of unaccompanied minors in Canada. In this study I utilized a semi-structured individual interview method. Among thirteen participants in my study, ... -
Reading Rocks Junior: A Mixed-Methodological Study of the Efficacy and Accessibility of an Emergent Literacy Intervention
(Brock University, 2013-07-11)This thesis explored early literacy development in young vulnerable readers. More specifically, this thesis examined an emergent literacy program called Reading Rocks Junior offered by the Learning Disabilities Association ... -
Self-Regulated Learning and Children At-Risk for Learning Disabilities: Using Motivational Tactics to Support "Reading Rocks!"
(2013-05-07)This project explored self-regulation among children impacted by leaming disabilities. More specifically, this thesis examined whether a remedial literacy program called Reading Rocks! offered by the Leaming Disabilities ... -
Closing the Summer Learning Gap for Vulnerable Children: An Examination of a Summer Family Literacy Program for Junior Kindergarten Children At-Risk for Reading Difficulties
(2013-04-19)The learning gap created by summer vacation creates a significant breach in the learning cycle, where student achievement levels decrease over the course ofthe summer (Cooper et aI., 2000). In a review of 39 studies, ... -
Bringing Zombies Back to Life: An Autoethnographical Exploration of Alienation and Political Dis/Engagement in Emerging Adulthood Within Late-Stage Capitalism
(2013-04-19)In this thesis, by employing an autoethnographic methodology, I am exploring why certain understandings, or assemblages, of political engagement come to have greater meaning in my life and why other assemblages may be ... -
Back to School, Back to Normal? Exploring the Lived Experiences of Childhood Cancer Survivors and their Families Throughout the School Re-Entry Process
(2013-04-10)This study investigated parent and child perspectives of childhood cancer survivors' return to school. Four specific areas were examined including cognitive and academic concerns, social issues, perceived support, and the ...
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