Pedagogical or punitive?: The academic integrity websites of Ontario universities

This study is a snapshot of how Ontario universities are currently promoting academic integrity (AI) online. Rather than concentrating on policies, this paper uses a semiotic methodology to consider how the websites of Ontario’s publicly funded universities present AI through language and image. The paper begins by surveying each website and documenting emerging language-based trends like interpellating different audiences, inducting students into a larger scholarly community, and appealing to peer disapproval. The paper also records how these websites visually communicate AI through images and video, arguing that image and text inform one another in a two-way relationship: for example, a punitive image may undermine an otherwise textually pedagogical website. Overall, the majority of Ontario websites have a decidedly educative mandate in their online AI resources, aligning with current AI scholarship that lauds education rather than after-the-fact punishment.  La présente communication fait le survol des moyens de promotion de l’intégrité académique sur l’internet par les universités de l’Ontario. Au lieu d’étudier les politiques officielles des universités sur le plagiat, l’analyse utilise une méthodologie sémiotique afin d’étudier comment les sites web des universités publiques de l’Ontario représentent l’intégrité académique à travers l’image et le langage. L’étude part d’une enquête de chaque site web et documente les modes de langage présentés tels que l’interpellation de divers audiences, l’inclusion des étudiants dans une communauté académique plus large, ainsi que l’influence de la désapprobation des pairs. La communication démontre aussi comment ces sites web représentent visuellement l’intégrité académique à travers des images et des vidéos. Elle démontre que le texte et l’image s’informent l’un et l’autre dans un discours à double sens : une image punitive pourrait aller à l’encontre du contexte textuel pédagogique présenté. Somme toute, la majorité des sites web universitaires de l’Ontario ont un mandat qui favorise la pédagogie dans les questions d’intégrité intellectuelle, s’alignant ainsi avec les positions des chercheurs qui privilégient l’éducation en matière d’intégrité intellectuelle plutôt que la punition après les faits

News from School: Language, Time, and Place in the Newspapers of 1890s Indian Boarding Schools in Canada

Though few documents remain showing exactly how English was taught at Indian boarding schools (a term that includes both residential schools in Canada as well as their counterpart in the U.S.), some schools produced newspapers. Newspaper production at boarding schools occurred for almost 100 years and in diverse regions across both Canada and the U.S. In this dissertation, I focus on five newspapers produced at four nineteenth-century Indian boarding schools in Canada, arguing that these documents and the printing programs that produced them afford a rare glimpse into language instruction in situ. They feature writing by teachers and students as well as audiences that included community members, governing bodies, and parents. These newspapers participated in an assimilative agenda but, I argue, also feature ways in which students resisted as well as resignified and repurposed English for their own needs. Despite the schools agenda to erase Indigenous languages, promoting what Andrea Bear Nicholas calls linguicide, students demonstrated in school newspapers their ability to maintain Indigenous languages and learn English. And while much research suggests a separation between boarding schools in Canada and boarding schools in the U.S., these newspapers reveal evidence of both commonalities and communication across the border, particularly as the two systems began. Through school newspapers, this dissertation aims to contribute to what Dwayne Donald calls excavating the colonial terrain. This research analyzes school newspapers as complex evidence of the disciplinary techniques driving discourses of settler colonialism as well as Indigenous students resistance and responses. By investigating their multiple purposes and audiences, I argue nineteenth-century school newspapers both represented and attempted to constitute language, time, and place for readers and served as a testament to linguicide. Yet even within the tightly controlled narrative of the newspaper, students resisted in their own ways and used newspapers to articulate something of their own experiences and strategies of survivance. This research asks how we might come to understand these documents in a post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission (but not post-truth and reconciliation) Canada today

Playfulness in Children’s Picture Books about Bedtime: Ambivalence and Subversion in the Bedtime Story

In children's picture books, the connection between play and the rituals associated with bedtime is frequently addressed. Despite the fact that bedtime would seem to have little connection with play, play is a significant element in the construction of meaning in those books that focus on that period of the day. Play is embedded in bedtime picture books in many ways, through the qualities of the written language and the illustrations, and through narrative sequences

Off to School: Filmic False Equivalence and Indian Residential School Scholarship

This article uses two short, mid-twentieth century documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada as an entry point into charting popular and scholarly representations of Indian residential schools. The article begins with a close reading of one 1958 film followed by an overview of how scholarship has changed over the last fifty years, particularly alongside and sometimes because of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The article advocates centring survivor testimony and provides major turns in considering as well as teaching about residential schooling and settler colonialism in Canada as well as ways of how to teach about and learn from it. The article concludes with a close reading of a second film, produced in 1971 by Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, which offers a decidedly different perspective from the film discussed at the beginning of the article.RésuméCet article utilise deux courts documentaires produits par l’Office national du film à l’époque du centenaire de la Confédération comme point de départ permettant d’étudier les représentations populaires et universitaires des pensionnats indiens. L’article s’amorce sur une lecture attentive d’un film de 1958, puis propose un aperçu des changements survenus dans la littérature académique au cours des cinquante dernières années, en particulier grâce à la Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada. Il met l’accent sur le témoignage des survivants et propose des changements importants, à la fois dans la façon de comprendre le système des pensionnats et le colonialisme canadien, de même que sur les façons de l’enseigner et les leçons à en tirer. L’article se termine par l’analyse d’un second film produit en 1971par la cinéaste Abénaquis Alanis Obomsawin, qui offre une perspective très différente de celui tourné en 1958

A study of the parishes of Rhiw and Llanfaelrhys 1782-1947.

This study examines the impact of change in Rhiw and Llanfaelrhys between 1782 and 1947 with particular respect to settlement pattern and land utilisation. Anticipated characteristics from this part of highland rural Britain requiring confirmation included dispersed settlement, interdependent agrarian communities, pastoral. farming with subsistent crop growing, poor overland communications and intermittent mineral extraction. Expectations included the slow diffusion of ideas with fewer, more gradual, less effective changes occurring later than in lowland Britain. Certain additional characteristics could be anticipated due to the Welsh context.Considerable evidence of a varied nature, including previously unpublished material has been examined. The period studied has been subdivided into five phases of approximately thirty years duration. In each phase the themes of continuity and change are examined with particular reference to settlement, economic affairs and social issues.The evidence indicates that the dispersed settlement pattern remained a constant feature. Throughout the study period agriculture formed the basis of the local economy. The stability given by the persistence in the siting of farmhouses, of land holdings and land ownership patterns and by the gradual acceptance of appropriate innovation underpinned other fluctuations in the economy. The Enclosure Acts heralded changes in the distribution of cottages and in the occupations and social status of their inhabitants.The impact of manganese mining fluctuated. In boom periods the influx of Englishmen brought new influences and increased earnings eased the cottagers' poverty. Later tourism became a secondary source of income. Despite these external forces the anticipated influence of religion, education, the Welsh language and culture combined to resist anglicisation.Change occurred but was absorbed within the economic and cultural background. This study illustrates that the concept of continuity was within the parishes of Rhiw and Llanfaelrhys, more influential between 1782 and 1947 than that of change

Examining the link between education related outcomes and student health risk behaviours among Canadian youth: Data from the 2006 National Youth Smoking Survey

This study examined whether student tobacco, alcohol, marijuana use and sedentary behaviour were associated with the educational outcomes of health-related absenteeism, truancy, and academic motivation in a nationally representative sample of Canadian youth. Descriptive analyses indicate a high proportion of students missed school due to health, and skipped class in the last month. Truancy increased with age, and male students are more likely to skip class, and be less academically motivated. Logistic regression models showed significant associations exist between substance use and all three educational outcomes. These findings support the need for coordinated action and funding in student health promotion.    Keywords: Adolescent, Youth, Truancy, Absenteeism, Academic Motivation, Tobacco, Marijuana, Alcohol Cette étude a examiné si le tabac, l'alcool, la consommation de marijuana, et le comportement sédentaire d'étudiants ont été associés à la réussite scolaire de l'absentéisme liés à la santé, l'absentéisme et la motivation scolaire dans un échantillon national représentatif de la jeunesse canadienne. Les analyses descriptives indiquent une forte proportion d'élèves ont manqué l'école pour raison de santé, et ont sauté de classe dans le dernier mois. L'absentéisme augmente avec l'âge, et les étudiants mâle sont plus susceptibles de manquer de classe et d'être moins motivés académiquement. Des modèles de régression logistique ont montré des associations significatives existent entre l'usage des substances et les trois résultats scolaires. Ces résultats confirment la nécessité d'une action coordonnée et de financement dans la promotion de la santé des élèves