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The Representation of Home in Canadian Children’s Literature/La représentation du chez-soi dans la littérature de jeunesse canadienne
(Canadian Children’s Literature, 2001)
Les auteurs du présent article soutiennent que l'étude du «chez-soi» dans les romans pour la jeunesse permet d'accéder aux valeurs socioculturelles fondamentales que ceux-ci véhiculent. L'analyse porte tout particulièrement ...
Community Distress Towards a National Measure
(Policy Research and Coordination Directorate, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2008-01)
This report developed and tested a proposed Canadian Distress Index (CDI) model capable of exploring distress across and within Canadian cities. The proposed index is discussed in terms of its ability to inform policy ...
Work in Mennonite Theological Perspective
(Canadian Society of Church History, 2004)
Beyond Assimilation: The Immigrant Family and Community in a Canadian Metropolis
(Loyola College of Social Sciences, 2004)
This paper draws on an empirical research focusing on immigrant families in Winnipeg, Canada, which is based on a sample of 440 south Asian, Filipino, Middle Eastern, and Eastern European respondents. When immigrants are ...
The Brachistochrone Problem: Mathematics for a Broad Audience via a Large Context Problem
(Montana Council of Teachers of Mathematics & Information Age Publishing, 2008)
Large context problems (LCP) are useful in teaching the history of science. In this article we consider the brachistochrone problem in a context stretching from Euclid through the Bernoullis. We highlight a variety of ...
Attainable lengths for circular binary words avoiding k-powers
(The Belgian Mathematical Society, 2005)
We show that binary circular words of length n avoiding 7/3+ powers exist
for every sufficiently large n. This is not the case for binary circular words
avoiding k+ powers with k < 7/3
Housing Distress in Winnipeg: Implications for Policy Programs and Services
(2008-01-01)
This is the Final Report of the research project “Structural Causes of Housing Distress in Winnipeg: Implications for Policy Programs and Services” undertaken by the Institute of Urban Studies on behalf of the National ...
Subalternity and Language: Overcoming the Fragmentation of Common Sense
(Historical Materialism (Brill), 2009)
The topics of language and subaltern social groups appear throughout Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. Although Gramsci often associates the problem of political fragmentation among subaltern groups with issues concerning ...