STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM 15TH APRIL 2023 z TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT Capilano University is named after Chief Joe Capilano, an important leader of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) Nation of the Coast Salish people. We respectfully acknowledge that our campuses are located on the territories of the Lil’wat, Musqueam, Sechelt (shíshálh), Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh) and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ TABLE OF CONTENTS Territorial Acknowledgment 1 SRS Schedule – an Overview 1 What is SRS 2023? 2 Support for the SRS 2 Speakers 3 Conference Organizers 4 Moderators and Volunteers 2 Special Thanks 2 Student Supervisors 4 Excellence in Research Award recipients 5 Bachelor of Arts Degree - Applied Behaviour Analysis (Autism) 5 Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Interdisciplinary Studies 5 Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Psychology (Honors) 5 Bachelor of Communication Studies Degree 5 Bachelor of Early Childhood Care and Education Degree 5 Bachelor of Motion Picture Arts program 5 Student Panel Presentations 6 Session A: 10:15 – 11:15 AM 6 Session B: 11:30-12:30 PM 9 Lunch 12:30-1:30 PM: (BR cafeteria) 11 Session C: 1:45-2:45 PM 12 Session D: 3:00-4:00 PM Thank you & Wrap-up Celebration 4:00-5:00 PM 15 18 Abstracts 19 Publish your work in the CapIlano University Institutional Repository 59 HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ SRS SCHEDULE – AN OVERVIEW Time Activity Location Registration Opens at 8 amand will close at 3 pm Birch Cafeteria 9:00-10:00 Opening Ceremonies and Awards Ceremony Birch Cafeteria Lower Level 10:15 – 11:15 am Session A Concurrent Student Panels Birch 162, 166, 203, 247, 263, 265 11:30 – 12:30 pm Session B Concurrent Student Panels Birch 162, 166, 203, 247, 263, 265 12:30– 1:30 pm LUNCH for Presenters, Moderators, Volunteers and VIPS (coffee and tea Birch Cafeteria available for attendees in the classrooms) 1:45 – 2:45 pm Session C Concurrent Student Panels Birch 162, 166, 203, 247, 263, 265 3:00 – 4:00 pm Session D Concurrent Student Panels Birch 162, 166, 203, 247, 263, 265 4:15-5:00 pm Wrap-up Celebration Birch Cafeteria 8:00 am HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ WHAT IS SRS 2023? Welcome to the seventh annual Student Research Symposium. The symposium is an opportunity for Capilano University students completing research projects or capstone projects to share their findings with their peers, faculty, family, friends, and the wider community. This year’s Symposium features the work of more than 80 students. The 2023 presenters include students from the Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Applied Behaviour Analysis & the PostBaccalaureate Diploma in Applied Behaviour Analysis, Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Interdisciplinary Studies, Associated of Arts, Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Psychology, Bachelor of Communication Studies, Bachelor of Early Childhood Care and Education, and Bachelor of Motion Picture Arts. SUPPORT F OR THE SRS We would also like to extend our thanks to Dawn Whitworth, Associate Vice President, Creative Activity, Research and Scholarship, Laureen Styles, Vice President Academic & Provost and Paul Dangerfield, President, for the resources and funding required to host this event. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ SPEAKERS Opening Ceremony Thank-you/wrap up session & Awards Ceremony Elder Latash Nahanee (Squamish Nation) Dr. Kym Stewart Dr. Pouyan Mahboubi Dr. Doug Alards-Tomalin Dr. Richard Stock Dr. Kathleen Kummen Dr. Michael Thoma Dr. Cass Picken Dr. Annabella Cant HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ SRS committee CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Dr. Kym Stewart Dr. Annabella Cant SRS, Faculty Lead Zabir Montazar SRS Research Assistant Maia Sanchetta Lomelino Dr. Cass Picken HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Dr. Richard Stock SRS Research Assistant MODERATORS AND VOLUNTEER S Dr. Richard Stock Sophia Zhang Megan Johnson Dr. Annabella Cant Shawn Dyer Veronica Ibanez Dr. Sylvia Kind Kingto Li Jordon Lee Rachel Yu Ananya Sharma Emily Meers Dr. Kathleen Kummen Smiledeep Kaur Danil Turkov Dr. Michael Thoma Jasnoor Kaur Charanpreet Sharma Sue Dritmanis Ayush Sharma Cheuk Yan Yeung Dr. Cass Picken Jocelyn Sanchez Megan Johnson Dr. David Matijasevic Greg Wilcox Esther Karasenty Dr. Bo Sun Kim Puneet Kaur Cheska Retita Michael Laurence Elizabeth Cooper Amanda Zhen Dr. Doug Alards-Tomalin Louisane Kaniki Colleen Ha Jane Ince Jana Aviado Dana Lee Krysten Henne Jiyeon Kim Annie Zhou Monika Karpinska Behnaz Lotfi Dr. Lori Walker HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ SPECIAL THANKS Elder Latash Nahanee Dr. Dawn Whitworth Andrea Heaney Squamish Nation Assoc. Vice President, Creative Activity, Research and Scholarship Research Grants Officer Creative Activity, Research and Scholarship Dr. Laureen Styles Dr. Pouyan Mahboubi Paul Dangerfield Vice Provost & AVP, Academic Associate Vice Provost & AVP, Academic President Capilano University Brittany Fox Dr. Chris Turner Dr. Cassidy Picken Administrative Assistant, Office of Vice-President, Academic & Provost Officer of the Research Ethics Board Supported students in the development of their abstracts Sabrina Wong Jane Ince Kristine Nyborg Supported students to publish in the Cap U institutional repository Supported students via an Public Speaking workshop Photojournalist who provided support for ethical use of photos in research Dr. Ki Wight Imelda May Instructor School of Communication Capilano University Bookstore Manager Sohaib Anwar & IT Support Irina Dordic & Reece Cheng Shailesh Dalvi Food Service Director Alumni Relations Officer Capilano University IT Services Patrick Ho and Brook Davison Supervisor, Facilities Services Cheryl-Ann Henning Katie Harris Student Recruitment & transitional supervisor, Registrar’s office Manager, University Events & Ceremonies Shawn Watson, Sanda McRae, Sparky Lawrence Mimi Yong Tanya Bovenlander Vogt Support Services Manager, Contract Administrator Marketing Operations Specialist, Marketing & Digital Experience BlueShore Financial Centre for Performing Arts HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Vanessa Massi Campanholo Events Specialist, University Events HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ STUDENT SUPERVISORS Dr. Richard Stock Dr. Annabella Cant Dr. Josema Zamorano Rachel Yu Dr. Kathleen Kummen Dr. Michael Thoma Dr. Sylvia Kind Brian Ganter Dr. Cass Picken Dr. David Matijasevich Dr. Bo Sun Kim Michael Laurence Dr. Doug Alards-Tomalin Dr. Michael Markwick Nanci Lucas Charles Greenberg Dr. Adele Barclay Dr. David Weston HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ EXCELLENCE IN R ESEARCH AWARD RECIPIENTS BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE - APPLIED BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS (AUTISM) BRYN KINDERS BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH A MAJOR IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES MARIA MULDER BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH A MAJOR IN PSYCHOLOGY (HONORS) MARSHALL MARTIN SHELLEY FERGUSON BACHELOR OF EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION DEGREE TONI DICASTRI KAREN TADOKORO BACHELOR OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS PROGRAM AVERY FROESE HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ STUDENT PANEL PRESENTATIONS Session A: 10:15 – 11:15 AM BR 263: ABA Verbal Behavior Kerstin Armstrong (ABA) A Literature Review: Response Interruption and Redirection (RIRD) as an Intervention for Vocal Stereotypy. Vanessa Herley (ABA) Using FCT to decrease SIB Crystal Siew (ABA) Using Discrete Trial Training to Teach Tacts Elora Hobbin (ABA) Comparing the Picture Exchange Communication System and Speech Generating Devices to increase vocal output in children with Autism Annie Partridge (ECCE) Finding Our Ēthea: Attuning to Our Relations With Nature Christina Davidson (ECCE) Assemblage of an Urban Park: Understanding our relationship to place and power dynamics that live here Zoe Linford (ECCE) The Transformative Outcomes of Welcoming Time into Art Encounters BR 265: HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ BR 247 Ali Morrow (ECCE) Drawing - Places: Drawing as an Emplaced Practice Eliza Mui (ECCE) Drawing as a Social Practice Jimin Kim (ECCE) The story of earth and life underground Salima Kara (ECCE) "More than ages and stages: beyond the image of the Rousseau’s child Taylor Pennykid (ECCE) Storying Fabric Ilam Muralidharan (ECCE) & Ashleigh Davies (ECCE) Disruption in the classroom: Radical dialogue on the image of the educator BR 203 HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ BR 162 Zanthia Bérubé (MOPA) Death-time Stories - A look at the use of filmmaking and storytelling to create a sense of meaning through escapism and imagination to help humanity cope with difficult existential questions such as the fear of death. Malina Mujdei (MOPA) The emergence of film noir significantly impacted social structures and societal belief towards a more nihilistic, and existentialist state of living. Jason Tam (INT) The Functional Constituencies System in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong: Evolution, Rationales, and Outcomes BR 166 HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Samantha Hughes (CMNS) Being My Brother's Sister: An Exploration of Ableism Within the Canadian Medical System Andrew Shoring (CMNS) What is the Cost of our Human Dignity? Camie Ward (CMNS) The Scarborough Charter’s role in Disrupting Modern Anti-Black Racism in Canadian Universities Session B: 11:30-12:30 PM BR 263: Happiness, Peers, Siblings, and Parents Jack Greene (ABA) Katie Bataligin (ABA) Happiness indices The Effectiveness of Peer-Mediated Interventions for Improving Social Skills for Children With Autism Eliana Guzman (ABA) Evaluating the effectiveness of behavioral skills training to improve social skills in children with autism Amaya Robles Delgado(ABA) Comparison of Parent Training Methods to Increase Language and Communication Skills in Children with Autism Julie Ngo (ECCE) A Pedagogy of Inclusion: Exploring ASL with Music and Movement Jenna Mobilio (ECCE) Children's Movement in a Social Constructivism Perspective Br 265: Jennifer Walsh (ECCE) Zuyu Liang (ECCE) HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Children’s dance: Embodied movements, responses, emotions through Music and Materials Reconceptualizing Nature, Materialist Perspectives and Art BR 247: Toni Di Castri (ECCE) Art as Event Melissa Elder (ECCE) How Did That Paint Happen? Yvonne Ma (ECCE) Drawing with a Tree: Drawing as Social Practice Br 203: Enesia Chitheka(ECCE) & Danielle Perea(ECCE) Disrupting race and racism in early childhood education Bianca Go (ECCE) & Matilda Wong (ECCE) “So, everyone’s straight, right?” : An inquiry into the discourse of heteronormativity in early childhood education. Aryanna Chartrand (ECCE) Language Matters: Public Policy and the Emergence of Slow Violence in Education BR 162 Darcy Smith (INT) Rachel Nitura (English) Cassidy Mauza (INT) HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Embracing Change Studying 18th Century London with Geospatial Intimacy Queer Picnic BR 166: Lunch HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Shelley Ferguson (PSY) The Roles of Indigenous Post-Secondary Employees in Supporting Student Mental Health Annelise Nomura (CMNS) Media as a Tool of Oppression and Violence: An Analysis of Russian Propaganda and Its Effects on Western Audiences Gabrielle Rossignol (CMNS) The Moral Imperative of Anti-Racist Solidarity 12:30-1:30 PM: (BR cafeteria) Session C: BR 263: 1:45-2:45 PM Practical Functional Assessment, Stereotypy, and Medical Procedures Sara Biluk (ABA) Implementing Practical Functional Assessment for Challenging Behavior: A literature review Mackenzie Tremblay (ABA) Practical Functional Assessment (PFA): A literature review Mariana Flores Castaneda (ABA) A Literature Review of Treatments for Stereotypy Madison Hauki (ABA) A review of behaviour analytic interventions to increase compliance with medical procedures for individuals with ASD Daisy Niu & Yonglin Zhen (ECCE) How children build relationship around them Christina Grasso (ECCE) Paint as a Social Practice Kaci Van Horlick (INT) Quality Learning BR 265: HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Br 247: Ai Paul (ECCE) Community as a Relational, Emergent, and Living Entity Karen Tadokoro (ECCE) Becoming A Community With Clay Marshall Martin (Psy) Being mindful of time: How attention to time mediates meditation’s influence of time perception Saba Askari (MOPA) The Problem with the Oedipus Complex; Western Society’s Subconscious Disdain for the Family Unit Sophie Parke (INT) Electoral Reform in Canada Dom Bergeron (MOPA) Sound: The Second Half of Cinema Emma Jones (INT) Exploring Best Practices for Social Justice in K-12 Education Kayleigh Walton (INT) Decolonizing the Fashion Industry Br 203: Br 162: HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Br 166: Jenelle McComb (CMNS) Subsidiarity Against Environmental Racism Hannah Jeffery (INT) Tulsa Race Massacre: A Case Study of White Victimhood, Racism, and Violence Allyah Lewis (CMNS) HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Cultural Erasure in Vancouver’s History Session D: 3:00-4:00 PM BR 263 Anxiety, Feeding, Phobias, and Vocational Skills Bryn Kinders (ABA) Using an ACT protocol to reduce symptoms associated with anxiety: A review of the literature Bree Ramsey (ABA) Behavioural interventions for Paediatric Feeding Problems: A Literature Review Sydney Stromberg (ABA) The use of Behavioral Interventions for Phobias Alessandra Pinto Rosendo (ABA) The use of video modeling for teaching vocational-related skills to individuals with ASD. Crystal Dong (ECCE) & Joanne Chen(ECCE) How to Live Well with the Playground Dwellers Manuela Salinas (ECCE) Tshishalh: sxwaxweyam Wesley Dekleer (INT) Drought in the desert: Growth never stops in Phoenix Arizona, even when the water does. BR 265 HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ BR 247: Carol Ann Misquitta (ECCE) Walking with salmon in Squamish: creating stories with multiple perspectives in early childhood curriculum Shelley Cranstone (ECCE) Thinking, Constructing, Wondering-Drawing TOGETHER Tamarapreye Wilson (INT) Food Safety Omar Pintos (INT) Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture: Solutions for the Global Food Crisis Tierney Crickmay (INT) Oneness vs the 1%, Vandana Shiva Br 203: HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Br 162: Ana Maria Caicedo (INT) Approaching Memoir Through the Personal Photographic Archive Kaylin Schorber (MOPA) Life in the Global Village: Why Comedy is Crucial to Coping in the Era of Modern Technology Avery Froese (MOPA) Life Just Isn’t What It Used to Be: An Exploration of the Maternal, the Mirror Stage, and Cinematic Suture Meagan Briggs (CMNS) The Discourse of Freedom Following the Overturn of Roe. V. Wade Julian Forero (CMNS) A revision of cultural traditions to reinvent the way manhood is understood Lilian CormierStumpf (MOPA) Beauty and the Sublime in Relation to Woman, Man, and God Br 166: HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Thank you & Wrap-up Celebration 4:00-5:00 PM HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ ABSTRACTS NAME TITLE ABSTRACT This project is an attempt to re-conceptualize what community means through the lens of place-based pedagogies. As a daily ritual, the neighbourhood walks are integral to children’s and educators’ lives at Learning Tree Daycare. By attuning to the act of walking and to our surroundings, we seek to understand what makes our community a community. As we engage with our sensory perception and lived experiences, the singularities of our Community as a place and community are very much in focus. Rather than viewing Relational, Ai Paul a community as static and already existing, the children and the Emergent, and educators start conceptualizing a community as relational and Living Entity emergent. Does a community exist solely for humans and their needs? Thinking with the myriad stories and interconnections with more-than-human worlds, we decentre ourselves from human exceptionalism and from a human-centric view of the world. With a pedagogical intention and act, the concept of community as an assemblage helps us dismantle and disrupt what it means to listen, encounter others and think of the place we live in. This presentation will concern a literature review related to the use of video modeling intervention for training vocational skills with individuals with ASD. Video modeling, an evidence-based The use of video procedure, has been proven as an efficient tool for teaching several modeling for skills to a large population, and studies have shown that individuals Alessandra teaching with ASD can significantly benefit from it to learn social skills Pinto Rosendo vocational-related necessary for their inclusion in the work setting. For this, eleven skills to individuals studies with single subject research design will be addressed and with ASD. reviewed, focusing on the procedural variations of video modeling, the results found and the effectiveness of the interventions utilized. Implications for professional practice and the Social Validity of enhancing vocational-related skills are also discussed. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Ali Morrow Allyah Lewis AMAYA ROBLESDELGADO This collective inquiry invited young children and their educator to foster a practice of drawing to create new understandings as they walked and visited particular places. This presentation will share how drawing as an emplaced practice is founded in relational experiences of felt-sensing or bodied ways of knowing. We thought Drawing - Places: through new and meaningful places as we engaged with materials Drawing as an such as chalk pastels. As an emplaced practice, drawing brought Emplaced Practice attention to the particular qualities of the West Coast of BC, such as rain, the seasons, and the nuanced changes to the spaces. This curriculum inquiry works to highlight what is possible when educators pay attention to embodied ways of knowing and how through drawing, new ways of being are created. This essay aims to shed light on the government's active attempts to erase its anti-Black history. It focuses on the province of British Columbia and its dispossession of the Black population that occupies the province. A large majority of Canadians who identify Cultural Erasure in as Black live in Toronto (42%) and Montreal (23%) which has led Vancouver’s the comparatively small population in Vancouver (2.5%) to be History forgotten. Vancouver’s Black community followed the US trend of slum clearance, however they weren’t relocated together, but rather dissipated. This essay will be discussing the government's attempts at removal as exampled in the destruction of Hogan’s Alley, and the lack of Black presence in city archives. Comparison of Parent Training Methods to Increase Language and Communication Skills in Children with Autism HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ This presentation will review ten single subject research studies on three methods of parent training to increase social, language and communications skills in children with autism. The three methods of training that will be reviewed are the Early Start Denver Model, Pivotal Response Training, and Behavioral Skills Training. The presentation will also discuss the social validity, implications for practitioners and the status of the methods of parent training as evidence based. Ana Maria Caicedo Andrew Shoring For the past decade, I have been recording my life through photography. This year, I decided to create a memoir-photobook using these images. The book, titled 18-28, traces seminal Approaching relationships and events of the past decade of my life, including my Memoir Through experience of Bipolar Disorder. In assembling the book, I articulate the Personal a photographic language that allows me to describe lived Photographic experiences of kinship, instability, loneliness, and transformation. Archive Drawing on Buddhist texts and ways of understanding—including the notions of interbeing and karma—the book considers the link between photographs and impermanence and explores the potential of the autobiographical photograph as a karmic residue. Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia have an obligation to honour the Human Rights Code. One of the ultimate aims of the Code is to “to foster a society in British Columbia in which there are no impediments to full and free participation in the economic, social, political and cultural life of British Columbia.” My research examines the ways in which the accommodation of “mental or physical disability”, as required by the Code is honoured in postsecondary education. I argue that Capilano University, in its creation and implementation of Student Accessibility Services, has made strides to create equality. However, whilst taking a positive step forward, Student Accessibility Services is a place that still harbours and perpetuates inequality. There are still injustices and What is the Cost of inequalities being imposed on those who sign up for Accessibility our Human Services at Capilano University. Signing up for these services is Dignity? supposed to give those who are at a disadvantage some sense of belonging and respect for their self-worth. However, the actual process of signing up for Accessibility Services is actually stigmatizing, transactional and promotes inequality. For someone who already has to deal with so much, to be required to hand over their dignity in a simplistic and transactional method is traumatic and has the ability to have lifelong consequences. Using an analytical framework that engages Elizabeth Anderson, Michael Sandel and Iris Marion Young, among others, I argue for a bottom up approach to identify and eliminate systemic barriers that impinge upon the duty to accommodate. In this way, postsecondary education could truly become anchored in the imperative HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ of “full and free participation”. Annie Partridge Annelise Nomura This living inquiry explores the dynamics and exchanges that take place with children and the outdoor environment at the Margaret Heights Daycare Centre (Lonsdale Creek Daycare Society). Throughout these interactions with nature, there is a strong sense of what Gert J.J. Biesta refers to as “coming into presence” that invites children and educators to ruminate with the space and with others. It is not a matter of asking, “Where am I?” but, “Where are Finding Our Ēthea: you?” The intention of this inquiry was to invite children and Attuning to Our educators to decentre oneself in a space with other entities, in Relations With which the human and the more-than human share a way of being in Nature the world together. This inquiry opened up new ways of understanding the outdoor environment and what it means to collectively come together with the more-than-human entities, such as trees, bears, and snow. Furthermore, it challenges the idea of what it means to cultivate a relationships with the outdoor environment, generating alternative ways of knowing and being together. This study aims to investigate the impact of media forms on political messaging and their use as tools of oppression and violence. The focus is on the effects of Russian war propaganda on Western audiences, specifically through the lens of agenda-setting and framing. The theoretical frameworks of Jacques Ellul and Media as a Tool of Giorgio Agamben will guide the study's critical analysis of the Oppression and propaganda's impact. Ellul's concept of technological society and Violence: An Agamben's ideas of "state of exception" and "bare life" will be used Analysis of Russian to explore the ways in which media can be used to shape public Propaganda and Its opinion and perpetuate oppression. The study will use a critical Effects on Western realist discourse analysis to analyze Russian propaganda's impact Audiences on the Canadian trucker protest in 2021. The findings of this study will provide important insights into the ways in which media can be used as a tool of oppression and violence. It has the potential to inform future research and policy initiatives aimed at promoting media literacy and critical engagement with media content, particularly in Western audiences. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Aryanna Chartrand Ashleigh Davies Early childhood education and early childhood educators are shaping and being shaped by language. This inquiry aimed to disrupt the narratives being produced through policy and provoke critical thinking into the power language holds as an agentic force in early childhood education. By paying attention to language, this group of educator-researchers engaged with the tensions and Language Matters: frictions of universal child care infrastructure and the early Public Policy and childhood educator who is emboldened to reimagine early the Emergence of childhood education through pedagogy and practice thinking with Slow Violence in the BC Early Learning Framework, the United Nations Declaration Education on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action, the ECEBC Position paper: Who is the Early Childhood Educator, and the Indigenous Early Learning Child Care Framework. Further, we considered what slow violences emerge through policy choices that prioritize neoliberal agendas and how might language create conditions for slow violence or transformative change. This inquiry project considers the image of the early childhood educator, and how colonial forces and neoliberal discourses have and continue to shape our role. While this image dictates policies, it does not reflect the lived realities of educators currently working in the field. From November 2022 to February 2023, a collective group of eight educators gathered to engage in radical dialogue relating to the image of the educator. In an effort to form a Disruption in the democratic, agonistic space (Mouffe, 2000), educators were invited classroom: Radical from a variety of positionalities, sociocultural backgrounds and dialogue on the roles within ECE . Through our conversations, the tensions and image of the discord came to be valued as productive discourse which educator highlighted the complexities of our role. We argue that we need to move away from the idea of a universal image of the educator, embrace the fragmentation in our field, and engage with more than the dominant cultures in society. We pose a reconceptualization of the image of the educator that acknowledges and values the multiplicities and singularities of educators, including the silenced and the marginalized. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Avery Froese Have you ever wished to return to days past? Has the popular idiom describing a healthier and more vibrant grass on the opposite side of a dividing fence ever applied to your life? Does the idea of repeating the innocent days of youth sound appealing? It is very common for these questions to be answered with a reminiscent “yes”, and while most adults, if questioned, would likely not wish to return to their childhood bodies and forfeit the rights and freedoms granted by maturity, few will deny the desire to reclaim the innocence and whimsy held within the years of infancy. Indeed, no cognizant experience can compare to the unconscious delight experienced by an unborn child, safely nestled Life Just Isn’t What within the womb of their It Used to Be: An caretaker, with nothing but the muffled sounds and distant Exploration of the experiences of the mother to create a Maternal, the soundtrack to a blissful state that can only be described as being. Mirror Stage, and However, this elation has a Cinematic Suture very early expiry date, terminating once the newborn has left the womb and experiences themselves in the form of Jacques Lacan’s mirror stage, where their own vision forever alters the onlooker’s perspective of reality. Nevertheless, there is a unity within these opposite occurrences. Although sound plays an integral part in the tranquility of maternal existence, and sight assists in the angst and uncanny sustained by the mirror stage’s outcome of self-realization, the two senses combine, in the form of cinema, and suture the viewer back to a near-tranquil experience, which is as close as we can come to achieving the carefree life we all once lived. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Bianca Go Dominant discourses of early childhood view children as innocent, passive, and asexual, deeming topics of gender and sexuality irrelevant to young children’s lives. Notions of desired heterosexual expression flourish throughout all aspects of society and are constantly reinforced throughout children’s lives, and yet, the regulating discourse of heteronormativity is rarely considered within mainstream early childhood spaces. This inquiry explores the seemingly invisible discourse of heteronormativity from “So, everyone’s reconceptualist perspectives that argue against the normalization of straight, right?” : heterosexuality as the only acceptable form of sexual expression. An inquiry into the We conducted a five-month-long inquiry with a group of eight discourse of early childhood educators exploring the pervasiveness and effects heteronormativity of heteronormativity on our understandings and daily educational in early childhood practices. We engage with Mindy Blaise’s Playing it Straight to education think with feminist poststructuralism and queer theory to rethink dominant developmental perspectives on the construction of children’s gender identities. Considering our ethical responsibilities as early childhood educators, we examine the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the ECEBC Code of Ethics, and the British Columbia Early Learning Framework to disrupt stereotypical understandings of gender and sexuality to create more equitable and livable early childhood spaces. Bree-Ann Ramsey Behavioural interventions for Paediatric Feeding Problems: A Literature Review HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ This presentation will review the literature on behavioral interventions to support feeding challenges in children. Four major evidence-based practices will be reviewed, as well as the social validity of each intervention. This presentation will examine the literature and comment on the effectiveness of using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a protocol for reducing symptoms associated with anxiety and anxiety disorders. The presentation will compare 12 studies that examine various symptoms, all of which are associated with anxiety or stress related conditions. This presentation also aims to evaluate ACT as an evidence-based practice and will discuss the social validity of this approach and the future implications that expanding the field of Applied Behaviour Analysis to also address covert behaviours might have. Bryn Kinders Using an ACT protocol to reduce symptoms associated with anxiety: A review of the literature Camie Ward This study investigates the systemic and historical anti-Black racism ingrained in various aspects of Canadian society, particularly in the education system. Despite commitments to equity, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI), the normativity of whiteness and white supremacy remains a significant challenge for Black students and faculty members in post-secondary programs across the country. To better understand how Canadian universities The Scarborough address this issue, this study employs critical realist discourse Charter’s role in analysis. Specifically, it investigates the Scarborough Charter, Disrupting Modern which was adopted by the Ontario College of Art and Design Anti-Black Racism University to promote Black inclusion and excellence. in Canadian Additionally, the study explores the mental and physical trauma Universities that individuals who have experienced racial discrimination may face and its impact on their well-being. By highlighting these issues, this study aims to contribute to meaningful solutions that can promote a more inclusive and equitable education system in Canada, where Black students and faculty members can succeed. The findings of this study can be used to inform policies and practices that foster anti-racism in education, promote equity, and advance social justice. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Carol Ann Misquitta Cassidy Mauza This pedagogical inquiry with salmon was co-constructed with children, parents, and educators on the lands now known as Squamish, British Columbia. It emerged when a group of children, aged two years to five years, explored their neighborhood dyke Walking with along the Mamquam River. We were drawn to the life cycle of the salmon in spawning Pacific salmon that swim upriver to find their places of Squamish: creating birth. This created pedagogical conditions for educators and stories with children to consider ways to move from the colonial discourses of multiple pre-planned curriculum to a living curriculum. As we walked along perspectives in the river, thought with Indigenous Elders and storytellers, and early childhood engaged with artistic practices, generative stories emerged. There curriculum were many joys and challenges on our journey, highlighting what is possible when early childhood curriculum is co-constructed with materials, histories, children and educators in their local communities. We were brought closer into kinship and many possibilities were generated. Purpose for inquiry: To understand why queer joy is important for the queer community, and how it not only leads to a wider understanding and recognition for the queer community, but can also function to protest narratives about queer people. Perspectives/methodology/theoretical framework: As a queer person and writer, I aim to take on this project from not only my own perspective, but also from those within the community. Some authors that I have specifically used to build up my framework are Frankie Barnet, Carmen Maria Marchado, and Alice Oseman. In general, my main way of working has been to study how queer joy Queer Picnic looks from many different perspectives, and how some works successfully weave it into their narrative, or what certain shortcomings are. Specifically, I am looking to argue that the picnic can function as a setting for queer joy, and how communities within the LGBTQIA2S+ space weave together to make resistance through joy. Anticipated Results/Warrants for Arguments/Point of view: My anticipated findings are that queer joy is an important place of resistance and acts as active resistance in the current day, as the rampant narrative of queer sadness has the ability to perpetuate further harm. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Anticipated Artistic Significance: The significance of this project to me, is to create more space for queer liberation stories, and stories surrounding the queer narrative that does not have to be about our struggle and our pain.It is important for queer people to take up space not only for our pain, but also to tell stories of our joy. Our joy is a form of activism and liberation. Christina Davidson Christina Grasso Crystal Siew Assemblage of an Urban Park: Understanding our relationship to place and power dynamics that live here This inquiry project unpacks the relationship between children and place within an urban setting with specificity. It asks what does it mean for these children to have a relationship with George Wainborn Park, and what does is mean to be part of the active assemblage that makes this park. This inquiry has been coconstructed with children and examines lively power dynamics and human centricism. Paint as a Social Practice The intention of my graduating project was to explore with children and educators how paint can be considered a social practice within the context of Early Childhood Education. I have been thinking with a materialistic perspective. This materialistic perspective leads to five themes: experimenting the expressions of paint, dialogue of expressions through paint, painting as a language of stories, transformative processes of paint and paint and materials co existing. Our intention was not to find answers but to explore an idea that is lived through our processes, observations, and documentation through our work with children. Using Discrete Trial Training to Teach Tacts This presentation will review the literature on teaching tacts to individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities using discrete trial training (DTT). It is a teaching procedure that uses structured and repetitive trials to teach new skills or behaviours to individuals with developmental or intellectual disabilities who may struggle with traditional teaching methods. It focuses on developing the ability of individuals with disabilities to label objects, actions, events and concepts using verbal behaviour. This approach can be effective who struggle with communication, social HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ interaction and learning. By improving their ability to tact, individuals can understand and navigate their environment and also communicate more effectively with others. The results of this literature review will include the overall summary of findings, with a focus on the variations of stimuli used, the type of single-subject research design employed, the effects of tact training and its status as an evidence-based procedure. Social validity and clinical implications will also be reviewed. Crystal Dong How to Live Well with the Playground Dwellers HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ This inquiry with young children took place over a period of five months and comprises a series of encounters about how to live well with the garden dwellers at the playground. As environmental and climate crises and human-caused species extinctions draw increasing attention worldwide, it prompts us to think about how to create livable worlds in early childhood care and education. We tap into the children's fascination with the travelling ants, curling-up roly-polies, and wriggling worms and invite the children to experiment with different ways of thinking and doing while encountering the living and non-living beings habiting in the playground. The inquiry closely follows the BC Early Learning Framework principles and common worlds pedagogies, thinking with scholars such as Affrica Taylor, Miriam Giugin, and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, to help understand and trace the entangled and uneven relations between humans and garden dwellers at the playground. Through this process, the educators and children reconceptualize how to live well with who and what we may not have noticed before. From November 2022 to March 2023, Enesia Chitheka and Danielle Perea met with a group of educators from different ethnic groups, to discuss how race has been viewed and represented in early childhood classrooms. As the majority of the Canadian education system is based on Eurocentric view of education, the group of educators have closely analyzed how the current early childhood education curriculum may portray race and diversity in Disrupting race and an ecce classroom. Through our exploration it became evident that racism in early Danielle Perea we all have different ways in which we discuss race with children childhood in our practice as early childhood educators.This is due to different education geopolitical positionalities and relationships that we hold about race. We also discovered that educators may be hesitant to actively discuss race with children due to the intensity of emotions and sensitivities tied to educators and children’s experiences. Our group came to recognize the importance of reshaping our way of connecting with a complex web of experiences and relations that are tied to the discourse of race. Darcy Smith The object of my research is to bring awareness to the lack of progression in the elementary school system in British Columbia. We are doing the children of today a disservice by holding them back from the proper education they should be receiving. We are living in such a progressive and fast-paced society, but we are still teaching children the way we taught them 50 years ago, in a classroom. I am using my own personal experience and knowledge, as I have worked for the North Vancouver School District for the past 3 years. I am also combining research from experienced Embracing Change professionals in special education, Indigenous education, and technological education. I believe that with these three forms of education in mind, we can transform the curriculum and teaching methods in British Columbia, and across Canada. My anticipated findings will likely make a case for the importance of progressive classrooms, which will include the previous forms of education just mentioned. My hope is also to gain more knowledge and present solid arguments on how the system and myself can implement better practices in education. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ This paper seeks to disprove the longstanding assumption that visuals alone are the most significant manner in which meaning is created within cinema. Instead, through integrating and synthesizing the research of other scholars in analyzing the various aspects of sound and the means by which they can affect the human psyche, this paper investigates how cinema utilizes each of these qualities in order to create powerful meanings both separate to, and Sound: The Second in conjunction with the film’s visuals. In exploring the material Dom Bergeron Half of Cinema aspects of film sound, its relationship to the human voice, and its validity as a semiotic system, the conclusion forms that the auditory aspect within cinema is as effective, if not more so, than its cinematography and mise en scène in the articulation of meaning. This paper serves as a method of communicating the concepts and tools available to filmmakers within an acoustic context for the purpose of conveying specific ideas, emotions, and tones. Eliana Guzman This presentation will review the literature on behavioral skills Evaluating the training (BST), a method used for teaching new skills that consists effectiveness of of four components: Instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback. behavioral skills Ten studies will be reviewed with a focus on using BST to teach training to improve social skills for children with autism. The results concluded from social skills in each study will be examined to prove or disprove the effectiveness children with of BST as a teaching approach. Both Social validity and autism implications for practitioners will also be addressed/discussed. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Elora Hobbin This presentation will review the literature on vocal output using Comparing the either the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) or a Picture Exchange Speech Generating Device (SGD) among children with Autism. Comminication Five studies from each communication system, 10 total studies, System and Speech will be reviewed with a focus on which intervention increases vocal Generating Devices output, the effectiveness of each approach, and its status as an to increase vocal evidence-based procedure. Social validity and implications for output in children children, their parents and caregivers, as well as practitioners will with Autism also be addressed. Emma Jones My project was aiming to identify key social justice education practices used by K-12 educators in the US. I researched this topic using an interview research method, as well as a literature review of many books, articles and educational documentaries. The person I chose to interview is a top educator from the United States who has extensive experience both, personal and professional, with social justice education. Following the interview, I created a Exploring Best transcript of the interview so that I could analyze it. I compared the Practices for Social findings of my literature review with the interview analysis to Justice in K-12 discover consistent themes. Some of my research questions Education included: From an administrative standpoint, what steps do you take to ensure social justice practices extend outside of the classroom? Do you believe there needs to be a shift in educational policy to enhance social justice outcomes? Would this include a greater focus/shift towards social justice education? What would this look like? What I discovered is that there are core elements to successful Social Justice education practices, but the extent of impact is largely based on state policy and social structures. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Enesia Chitheka Gabrielle Rossignol From November 2022 to March 2023, Enesia Chitheka and Danielle Perea met with a group of educators from different ethnic groups, to discuss how race has been viewed and represented in early childhood classrooms. As the majority of the Canadian education system is based on Eurocentric view of education, the group of educators have closely analyzed how the current early childhood education curriculum may portray race and diversity in Disrupting race and an ecce classroom. Through our exploration it became evident that racism in early we all have different ways in which we discuss race with children childhood in our practice as early childhood educators.This is due to different education geopolitical positionalities and relationships that we hold about race. We also discovered that educators may be hesitant to actively discuss race with children due to the intensity of emotions and sensitivities tied to educators and children’s experiences. Our group came to recognize the importance of reshaping our way of connecting with a complex web of experiences and relations that are tied to the discourse of race. Witnessing an individual exhibiting racist and discriminatory behaviour can be confusing, alarming, infuriating, and daunting. Being a bystander can be difficult because deeply entrenched racist structures have trained us to be uncomfortable or afraid to speak out against acts of racism. In response to this, an important question to ask ourselves is: What does democratic inclusion theory ask of us when individuals “perform” racist structures, if we are to be anti-racist? This research question stems from a recent personal interaction with a family member who demonstrated racist The Moral behaviour. This situation inspired a deeper analysis to reflect on Imperative of Antione’s inability to react to and combat racism and presented the Racist Solidarity opportunity to understand the deeper White supremacist structures manifesting in individual racist behaviour. Research conducted through a critical realist lens reveals that democratic inclusion requires from us solidarity and allyship if we are to be anti-racist, and to recognize that for oppressive systemic structures to change, they must be named and restructured. This research demonstrates that personal transformation is an act of anti-racism, and if we are not actively anti-racist individuals, then we ultimately contribute to the systemic racism that is fostered within our institutions. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Hannah Jeffery Ilam Muralidharan In 1921, a young Black man tripped on his way into an elevator, grabbing the arm of a young white woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This event triggered widespread anger in the white community of Tulsa, leading to a massacre that would leave hundreds of Black Greenwood residents deceased. After years of deliberate censorship and silence, the story of what happened in Tulsa began to be Tulsa Race uncovered by Greenwood residents unafraid of sharing their truth. Massacre: A Case From efforts of historians like Scott Ellsworth, a movement Study of White towards reconciliation and truth came to light. For the purpose of Victimhood, this research project, I have gathered primary and secondary source Racism, and material on the subject of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Through Violence photographs and written accounts, I have learned of the deliberate and concerted effort to cover-up the brutality of the Tulsa Race Massacre perpetuated by its white residents. My objective for this research project is to demonstrate the severity and lasting impact of the Tulsa Race Massacre, and to examine the ways in which lynching and violence has been perpetrated against African Americans for hundreds of years. This inquiry project considers the image of the early childhood educator, and how colonial forces and neoliberal discourses have and continue to shape our role. While this image dictates policies, it does not reflect the lived realities of educators currently working in the field. From November 2022 to February 2023, a collective group of eight educators gathered to engage in radical dialogue relating to the image of the educator. In an effort to form a Disruption in the democratic, agonistic space (Mouffe, 2000), educators were invited classroom: Radical from a variety of positionalities, sociocultural backgrounds and dialogue on the roles within ECE . Through our conversations, the tensions and image of the discord came to be valued as productive discourse which educator highlighted the complexities of our role. We argue that we need to move away from the idea of a universal image of the educator, embrace the fragmentation in our field, and engage with more than the dominant cultures in society. We pose a reconceptualization of the image of the educator that acknowledges and values the multiplicities and singularities of educators, including the silenced and the marginalized. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ The purpose of the literature review is to display the benefits and understanding of happiness indices of supported individuals. Through ten independent resources, I will provide a brief summary of the results. With an emphasis on happiness indices recorded. Each article brings its own social validity, which I will discuss as well. Jack Greene Happiness indices Jason Tam This paper examines the Functional Constituencies (FCs) system from the Legislative Council of Hong Kong since its launching in 1985. The research investigates the origins and developments of the FC system, its electoral procedures and the sectors it represents. The thesis also explains the political rationale for its launch and how the present situation aligns with the outcomes of what the The Functional designers wanted. The thesis employs a qualitative research Constituencies methodology which includes a review of different literature such as System in the think tank reports and books, and analysis of official government Legislative Council reports and Hansards from the Legislative Council. The research of Hong Kong: aims to find out the effects of the FCs over time: Why there are Evolution, such changes? How does it turn the FCs more “democratic” and Rationales, and “representable”? The thesis concludes that the present situation Outcomes does align with the outcomes of what the designers wanted, but with unintended effects. The FC system is not just putting the business sectors and elites as the frontline to support the government, but also maintains its corporatist nature in order to secure votes in the Legislative Council, benefitting the colonial government and the current SAR government. Jenelle McComb This paper examines environmental racism in Canada. Events of environmental racism can be all over Canada, specifically in areas where marginalized communities live such as in Africville, Nova Scotia. Looking at and analyzing cases of environmental racism in Africville can be applied to other communities that face similar forms of discrimination. The factors that play into environmental racism will be examined in this research. Modern racism, which contributes to environmental racism, is subtly done and puts blame on racial groups. The critical realist model is also imperative to this research. The critical realist model is used to decode racist systems and frameworks that allow for the continuation of environmental racism. Some frameworks include the UNDRIP and DRIPA. These Subsidiarity Against Environmental Racism HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ frameworks are in place to set out the rights of Indigenous peoples but have made little impacts. This paper calls for subsidiarity, which could include radical changes to these frameworks. There is a need for the people who are most impacted to be given the resources and support needed to address it. Work being done by people such as Augy Jones, who is forming a panel of historians, lawyers, medical professionals, and communities’ members is critical, when looking at subsidiarity. Children's Movement in a Jenna Mobilio Social Constructivism Perspective Children’s dance: Embodied movements, Jennifer Walsh responses, emotions through Music and Materials HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ The intention of my graduating project was an inquiry with children and educators about embodied movement and its interaction with various materials and in multiple environments in relation to Early Childhood Education. Through this inquiry there was an exploration of dialogue and interaction between children and materials, all while examining this through the lens of social constructivism. More specifically, I looked at social interaction between the children as they engaged in play and the knowledge that they collectively co-created together. This project was guided by a series of questions regarding how the children embodied their movement, how they engaged in dialogue, and how the children's movement with different materials would different in both outdoor and indoor environments. My embodied movementinquiry invited the children to create relationships and exploration. Between the explorations, collective wonderings, and curiosities that arose, our intention was not to focus specifically on body movement, but rather how the children moved in a variety of different encounters. Children use many different forms of language, including artistic languages such as dance, music, and art, to help them make sense of the world and to communicate and build meaning with each other. This project explored how children observe and respond to each other and the environment around them through movement and art making to different genres of music. Within a social constructivist framework, it considered how children co-construct their understanding and meaning of the world around them, and Jimin Kim The story of earth and life underground HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ embody this social learning and their emotions through movement and materials. Over the course of several visits, I played different genres of music and participated with the children as we moved together and used different drawing materials including oil and chalk pastels and pencil crayons on paper. Open ended dialogues encouraged the children to create and embody their mutual understanding through their movements and art. Open ended dialogue encouraged the children’s creativity and interactions with each other, the other educators, and me. Activities occurred inside and outside the centre, to enable experiencing and responding to music in different environments. Challenges with centre support limited attainment of the project goals, however what was achieved was noticing how a small group of children responded through movement and art making, individually and together, to different rhythms, volumes, and genres of music in different surroundings. The music and the environment in which they listened to it strongly influenced their movements and the art they created, although it was difficult at times to clearly observe and interpret the embodiment of their emotions and understandings in their physical responses. This project explores the story of earth and life underground by interweaving the concepts of drawing as a language and social practice with a group of three to five years old children in Oak Room at Capilano Children’s Centre since October 2022. We investigate and attend to diverse meanings of aliveness through a guiding question: “What does it mean to be alive?”. The ritual visits during winter months to the garden provoke further investigation and experimentation in the Oak Room, and children’s drawing visualizes and magnifies their concepts of underground life. During the co-composing inquiry process, children’s drawing becomes a way of engagement, which includes varied ways of thinking, knowing, and doing. The essence of this project is that drawing becomes the central language to investigate what aliveness means and does as it engages multiple ways of sensing, planting, creating stories, and enacting aliveness. We are developing how aliveness is understood and how drawing-painting takes shape as a collective and social practice. Joanne Chen Julian Forero This inquiry with young children took place over five months and comprises a series of encounters about how to live well with the garden dwellers at the playground. As environmental and climate crises and human-caused species extinctions draw increasing attention worldwide, it prompts us to think about how to create livable worlds in early childhood care and education. We tap into the children's fascination with the travelling ants, curling-up rolyHow to live well polies, and wriggling worms and invite the children to experiment with the with different ways of thinking and doing while encountering the playground living and non-living beings habiting in the playground. The dwellers inquiry closely follows the BC Early Learning Framework principles and common worlds pedagogies, thinking with scholars such as Affrica Taylor, Miriam Giugin, and Veronica PaciniKetchabaw, to help understand and trace the entangled and uneven relations between humans and garden dwellers at the playground. Through this process, the educators and children reconceptualize how to live well with who and what we may not have noticed before. As I read the news of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian women who died in a hospital of Tehran after being brutally beat by the morality police, I felt ill. I wanted to know why men would feel A revision of entitled to treat women in such a way. I couldn’t come up with an cultural traditions answer. I figured the reason was deeper than their government, or to reinvent the way their job. Their violence and hatred implicate the ways they manhood is understand themselves as men, a dehumanizing masculinity. This understood made me question my own identity as a man, especially because everything in me rejects what their murder of Mahsa Amini reveals. And then it hit me. I couldn’t even answer that question HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ myself. I am attempting to answer this by means of a critical realist auto-ethnography, guided by two fundamental questions. What does it mean to be man? And can masculinity be a driver of equality? My work draws on the ways masculinity is formed in the Indigenous, Colombian traditions of my own family, set against North American beliefs and the dehumanizing aspects of the dominant masculinist culture. Julie Ngo A Pedagogy of Inclusion: Exploring ASL with Music and Movement Kaci Van Horlick Quality Learning The intention of this inquiry was to invite children at Champlain Preschool to explore American Sign Language (ASL) with music and movements. The inquiry's lens will be Max Van Manen’s concept of hermeneutic phenomenology of lived experiences, more specifically, the reconceptualizing of how we communicate with others in the world. Reconceptualizing how we communicate with others generates ways of living, understanding, and being in the world in ways that create inclusive pedagogical environments. A way of communicating with ASL invites children to be imaginative and creative while co-constructing ideas with others and thus generating multiple ways of expression through music and movement. The inquiry generated a metaphorical bridge between the two worlds: the hearing and non-hearing ones. The 21st century has renewed interest in North America about gender and sexual identities in the classroom. Lawmakers, teachers, parents, and social media platforms have become involved in conversations about how gender and sexual identity, particularly among non-binary, queer and trans youth, should be brought into the formal school curriculum. My study will explore and illuminate what is at stake in this conversation in rural/non-Metro BC communities. I plan to use feminist, decolonizing, and other methodologies to analyze how conversations about 2SLGBTQIA+ identity play out inside and outside the classroom. I will use solicited interviews with students, parents and K-12 educators; documentary films; fictional accounts; BC education policy documents; and scholarship in trans/queer theory; to review these materials. The perspectives that we will be considering are the ones of HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ students, teachers and guardians. Our questions will be designed differently for each group. Using google forms, we will be able to accumulate different anonymous opinions and answers on the experience with education on gender identity. We anticipate that there will be different opinions based on the experiences of different groups. We believe there will be more information that we do not anticipate whether participants feel comfortable or appreciate the education offered at their school. Karen Tadokoro Becoming A Community With Clay HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ I anticipate that there is more that the education system can do for its students. I anticipate teachers and students could have more information about personal pronouns and abilities to educate each other on gender identity fully. The significance of the work can enlighten school districts on the opinions and ideas of their staff, students and parents. This co-composed inquiry project reconceptualizes the idea of a community in early childhood contexts through working with clay. Building a sense of community is a dominant idea commonly brought up in early childhood care and education but is seemingly static and rarely reconsidered. To further delve into this idea of a community, one group of infants and toddlers at Simon Fraser University Childcare Society has worked with clay as a big block over several months. Thinking with place-based pedagogy, we attended to how our particular place – our program, identities, and community – becomes cultivated relationally and materially. This attention allowed us to move beyond viewing clay as modelling material and community as strictly human-centred, also bringing attention to the agency of non-humans and matter. Working with clay became a vibrant social practice where our thinking, bodies, and connections with place are interconnected, transforming our understanding of how a community lives in our program, with each other and the world around us. By attending to the many ways in which a community has taken shape alongside our work with clay, the project aims to illuminate the complexities and possibilities of early childhood communities. The Effectiveness of Peer-Mediated Interventions for Katie Bataligin Improving Social Skills for Children With Autism Kayleigh Walton Kaylin Schober This presentation will review the literature surrounding peermediated interventions for the development of social skills for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Ten single-subject research design studies have been chosen and reviewed to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention, and whether it meets criteria for evidence-based practices. Social validity of these studies will also be reviewed. The idea of sustainable fashion encompasses the uses of sustainable practices, products, and a mindset that looks to achieve an environmentally friendly, social justice-centred and equal industry. The purpose of this project is to investigate ways the fashion industry can become decolonized and sustainable. This project assembles perspectives coming from different disciplinary lenses such as social science, humanities, history, economics, Decolonizing the anthropology, and psychology. It aims to explore a well-rounded Fashion Industry overview on the problems and possible solutions on several fronts of the fashion industry and its effects. An underpinning consideration of this project is the need to find new ways to support the environment and its people instead of destroying and exploiting it. Along with these environmental concerns, the project explores what we can learn from First Nations peoples and their sustainabletraditional practices surrounding clothing and fashion. As many benefits as there are to living in the modern age, we are also living in an era where frustration and anxiety seem to be the default mental state. One prominent and especially relevant theory Life in the Global in relation to many of our modern problems is Marshall McLuhan’s Village: Why Global Village. This is the idea that we are currently living in Comedy is Crucial village conditions, but at a global scale, and this is a life which we to Coping in the are not mentally equipped for. Whether it’s from the sheer amount Era of Modern of information we are constantly receiving, the endless politics we Technology are expected to keep up with, or the fact that we are exposed to so many other people’s lives that we begin to lose our own; it is no wonder that our mental health is struggling despite all these technological advancements that were meant to improve our lives. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ This has become prolific to the point where it is impossible not to be a citizen of the global village, so how can we survive in this while still maintaining our sanity? The answer to this lies in humour. From allowing us to bond with larger groups of people, helping us understand politics and other perspectives, and permitting us to be more self aware; in this age it is crucial that we give ourselves the space to laugh. Kerstin Armstrong A Literature Review: Response While reviewing ten peer-reviewed studies, this presentation will Interruption and assess the effectiveness of response interruption and redirection Redirection (RIRD) (RIRD) as an intervention for vocal stereotypy. Assessing the as an Intervention intervention as an evidence-based procedure, social validity, and for Vocal considerations for practitioners will be disseminated to viewers. Stereotypy. Lilian CormierStumpf The association of women inside the frame, or as the form and beauty rather than the ponderer of the boundless has its roots in many factors, but namely; Christology and religion. Women are associated with form and beauty due to various religious practices, Beauty and the namely the representation of a singular-male God in Christianity Sublime in Relation promoted throughout art. The sublime and boundlessness are to Woman, Man, associated significantly more with a male experience through this and God religious connection. This association can be proven and explored throughout the analysis of beauty and the sublime, religious representation of God and women, and films that attempt to portray this disparity such as Men (2022), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and The Wonder (2022). HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ In early education, children's development is hardly separated from the world surrounding them. Children's lives are shaped by the places they live in (Somerville, 2010). This living inquiry explores how children use their ways to build relationships and understanding with the world around them. For the living inquiry, How children build we have worked with children and educators in Smiling Star the relationship Daycare-Pemberton, and discovered more possibilities that children luyao niu with the world build relationships in various ways. For children, words are not the around them? only way to communicate and express themselves, they also use body language, eye contact, facial expression, and some arts such as drawing and music to explore the world and build relationships with others. In daily life, children construct meaning and build knowledge about the world through interactions with educators, peers, and their surrounding environment This presentation will review literature on the practical functional assessment (PFA), a procedure for decreasing distressed behavior and increasing functional communication responses. Ten studies Practical will be reviewed with a focus on different applications of the PFA, Mackenzie Functional the effectiveness and social validity outcomes. Tremblay Assessment (PFA): Important elements of this presentation will include A literature review 1. Literature review 2. EBP 3. Social Validity The Effectiveness This presentation will review the literature on graduated of Graduated exposure to increase compliance during medical procedures for Exposure to individuals with Autism. Ten studies will be reviewed with a focus Madison Increase on graduated exposure on its own, or combined with other Hauki Compliance with behaviour analytic interventions. The results from each study will Medical Procedures be analyzed to determine the effectiveness of the approach, and for Individuals with its potential as an evidence based practice. Social validity ASD and implications for practitioners will also be addressed. The emergence of In today’s discussion I will be exploring the emergence of nihilism film noir and existentialism, the origin story of film noir, its cause and effect significantly on the everyday person, and the societal impact of these influences Malina Mujdei impacted social evident to this day and age. structures and By researching the basis of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard’s societal belief philosophies, and the historical events leading up to the emergence HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ towards a more nihilistic, and existentialist state of living. Manuela Salinas shishalh: sxwaxweyam A Literature Review of Mariana Flores Treatments for Stereotypy HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ of film noir, I was able to uncover the origin story of this genre, one that found itself prevalent following the Great Depression, and the first World War. The average American became engulfed with the threat of atomic war, an unstable economy and ptsd- all worries that began to manifest themselves into the medium of art. Significantly, the modern world is built upon the beliefs reflected of that time. One that became more than just an adaptation of philosophies and the vast mentality into film, but also a way to drive the ever changing role of men and women, the notion of the traditional family, and demonstrate a direct effect of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard’s work. This pedagogical inquiry attunes to shishalh Traditional Storytelling at mem7iman’s early years Centre. The practices of this inquiry, in an early childhood centre, honour storytelling as a traditional and holistic way that the shishalh people have shared knowledge in time immemorial. At mem7iman, an early years centre, situated at the heart of the shishalh Nation, an abundance of rich storytelling is nurtured and cherished. Collectively the children, educators, Elders and community members heard and told stories through song, dance and art. We labour together to pay close attention to holistic shishalh pedagogies as we actively disrupted the colonial legacy that attempted to erase knowledges. This inquiry is both an act of resistance and celebration of the shishalh way of being. In this paper, I will be reviewing the literature on treatments for stereotypy. One of the major contributing factors as to why I wanted to review treatments for stereotypy was mainly ethics. Is it ethical to be seeking treatment for a stereotypy like hand-flapping if the individual is not bothering anyone? Are there some things that we, as a society must learn to adjust to, just as individuals with developmental disabilities have had to learn to the social norms society has set up? However, I had to realize that stereotypy can be troublesome, especially for the individual engaging in it. For example, if an individual is engaging in hand-flapping behaviours while waiting for a coffee, they are in fact not bothering anyone. Furthermore, most of my clients engage in stereotypy and it has been a target behaviour(s) the parents of my clients have wanted to focus on. In this paper, I will be focusing on reviewing treatments for automatic, vocal, and object stereotypy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities. Marshall Martin I decided to focus my research on three types of stereotypies, automatic, vocal, and object. When doing my research, I used the database “PsycInfo.” I started with object stereotypy and quickly found it a bit challenging. When just using “object stereotypy” the results were not promising, however, I used synonyms and used “items” and “toys” instead of “object.” This helped me find one valuable study by Flavell, 1973. Although it is older and quite short, it was helpful when comparing this study to more recent studies such as McNamara and Cividini, 2019. I wanted to find a mix of older studies and recent studies to compare. I did find it easier to find studies about treatment for automatic stereotypy. Previous studies that look at meditation’s influence on subjective measures of time perception show mixed results. Some say that meditation leads to a feeling of a slower passage of time, while others say it leads to a faster passage of time. A new model proposed by Sedlmeier and colleagues (2020), known as the augmented Buddhist meditation model (ABMM), aims to explain Being mindful of these discrepancies in part through the factors of level of time: How attention meditation experience, type of meditation practice, and attention to to time mediates time during meditation. This study aims to directly test this ABMM meditation’s model and Sedlmeier and colleagues' unique self-reported influence of time “attention to time” factor. Based on predictions of the ABMM for perception our sample of beginner-level meditators practicing focused attention style meditation (breath focused), we predict that greater reported attention to time will lead to subjectively longer meditation sessions in retrospect. We hope our findings add to the current theoretical landscape of meditation’s effects on time perception and help clarify what role the ABMM model should have in guiding future research. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Dominant discourses of early childhood view children as innocent, passive, and asexual, deeming topics of gender and sexuality irrelevant to young children’s lives. Notions of desired heterosexual expression flourish throughout all aspects of society and are constantly reinforced throughout children’s lives, and yet, the regulating discourse of heteronormativity is rarely considered within mainstream early childhood spaces. This inquiry explores the seemingly invisible discourse of heteronormativity from “So, everyone’s reconceptualist perspectives that argue against the normalization of straight, right?” : heterosexuality as the only acceptable form of sexual expression. An inquiry into the We conducted a five-month-long inquiry with a group of eight Matilda Wong discourse of early childhood educators exploring the pervasiveness and effects heteronormativity of heteronormativity on our understandings and daily educational in early childhood practices. We engage with Mindy Blaise’s Playing it Straight to education think with feminist poststructuralism and queer theory to rethink dominant developmental perspectives on the construction of children’s gender identities. Considering our ethical responsibilities as early childhood educators, we examine the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the ECEBC Code of Ethics, and the British Columbia Early Learning Framework to disrupt stereotypical understandings of gender and sexuality to create more equitable and livable early childhood spaces. The Supreme Court of the United States, in reversing Roe v. Wade, has become a driver of the subjugation of women, specifically minority women. In Dobbs v. Jackson, the Court has made women even more vulnerable to men’s violence against them. Similarly, I am finding in myself discomfort and confusion about how to make my concerns and outrage known, how to exercise my democratic The Discourse of power as a female. My research makes use of Catherine Meagan Freedom Following MacKinnon’s analysis of deeply entrenched structures of women’s Briggs the Overturn of oppression, and Loretta Ross’ anti-racist feminist analysis of Roe. V. Wade reproductive justice. It uses Amber Fletcher’s model of critical realism to further understand the implications of the ruling, and what it means for the future of women in America. Together, these three approaches allow me to examine the ways that the impact of Dobbs must be understood as part of the misogynistic structures, including the exploitation of women and girls in pornography, and HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Mei Shan Eliza Mui Drawing as a Social Practice Melissa Elder How Did That Paint Happen? HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ the ongoing ways the criminal justice system fails to hold men accountable for their violence against women. As an American woman, my work is situated in the generations long struggle for the equality of women in my country, recognizing that this fight for equality and winning it are drivers of the possibility of a free, just and democratic United States. Drawing brings children, educators, and materials together in early learning spaces. Situated within a social constructivist framework, this inquiry project with children aims to reconceptualize drawing as a social practice through which children co-construct meaning in a collective space of becoming. Over four months, the children and educators of The Village @ Frog Hollow have been wondering, speculating, and drawing the mystery of flight together. Drawing has created a social avenue for them to generate, exchange, elaborate, and complexify their thoughts and imagery. One child’s idea could initiate a new wave of inquiry which proliferated in multiple aspects. New thoughts have been activated, animated, and transformed through drawing stories collectively. Our experience helps us rethink drawing as material, relational, storytelling, as well as continuously unfolding. This perspective reminds educators to embrace pedagogical thoughtfulness to listen to and attune with children and their drawings. Paint is a lively material. Paint moves, guides, flows and sticks not only to brushes and surfaces but to thoughts and memories. Working with a materialist perspective, this inquiry project considered several children's interactions working with tempera paint from October 2022 to February 2023. This inquiry highlights and draws attention to what happens when paint meets brushes, bodies, and paper and the challenges that erupt when paint meets enough. Each event with paint offers opportunities to embrace and deepen relationships. This artistic inquiry calls those involved to rethink experiences and to pay attention to how paint becomes carried even after brushes, pallets, and hands have been washed. Nicola Screpnek Paint Stories Omar Pintos Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture: Solutions for the Global Food Crisis HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ This artistic inquiry took place over four months at North Shore Neighbourhood House - Centreview with children between the ages of three and five. Together, we worked with paint to understand how knowledge and learning can be socially and materially constructed. Through exploring the qualities of paint, we began to see how paint facilitates the construction of ideas, what paint allows children to do, and how paint enables children to construct ideas, theories, questions, and curiosities collaboratively. Through the inquiry, themes such as reflection, shadows, transparencies, hide and seek, and storytelling came about. The liveliness and the movement of paint gave life to the story unfolding. As paint spreads, ideas, curiosities, and stories spread with it. Food insecurity is one of the biggest challenges worldwide connected to the environmental emergency. The impacts and effects of unsafe agricultural practices, climate change, the socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scarcity of water resources, soil degradation, and rising food prices caused by the war in Ukraine have increased food insecurity in the last few years. I am exploring food security through an interdisciplinary lens. In my project, I am discussing sustainable agricultural practices needed for the future of humanity. I am exploring food security via a holistic approach by combining arguments from qualitative and quantitative information with my own lived personal experience. I will gather data from books, articles, videos, and films to recollect information about food security and sustainable farming and link this to my personal experiences with agriculture and food security, including a community engagement project with the Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation, which was the core of our INTS 335 Grand Challenges course, as well as planting and practicing agriculture in Mexico. I aim to offer solid arguments for educating people about food security and add to the efforts in showing the relevance of making this topic a common requirement of the curriculum at the university level. First coined by famed - and often contested - psychologist, Sigmund Freud, the “Oedipus Complex” is a psychoanalytic concept that describes the unconscious sexual desires that a son might feel for their mother as they enter adolescence. It details the male sexual fascination with one’s maternal figure and the subsequent disdain that they may then feel towards their father, who they associate as having satiated certain physical desires of the mother that they, themselves, are unable to. Though this concept The Problem with has since been rendered unsupported by the general academic the Oedipus community, it has since been co-opted by Western - meaning North Complex; Western American - society, and is instead often colloquially applied to any Saba Askari Society’s close family unit in a rather derogatory manner. Any fatherSubconscious daughter or son-mother relationship that is seen as being Disdain for the interdependent or exceptionally loving is intensely mocked and Family Unit plagued with an Oedipal Complex label. This is starkly contrasted with Eastern - meaning Asian - society, in which not only is a close family unit expected, but such complexes are entirely unheard of altogether. In this essay, various texts and other forms of media from each culture were analyzed carefully to prove the discrepancies between the two societies, only to prove the general assumption that close family units are, most often, derided in Western society and celebrated in the Eastern part of the world. My research aimed to accurately investigate significant historical and cultural locations in London, England 1660-1800 in order to synthesize these findings for the construction of an original map of London. I drew on my historical analysis skills to source archival maps, architectural drawings, and images of London during the period. When I needed further information on locations, I used my Studying 18th training in literary analysis to review first-hand accounts. This Century London Rachel Nitura research led to new discoveries about the locations of several with Geospatial significant London spaces and refutes the findings of an often-used Intimacy 2002 map of the city. This new map will appear in the Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (Edition 2), co-edited by David Weston and Diana Solomon. By establishing a geospatial map of the most significant locations and business that were likely frequented by, or known to authors of the period, my research will help other students better understand this HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ period and its literature. Salima Kara Samantha Hughes The purpose of this inquiry is to engage with the discourse of progress and to investigate the dominant image of the child that is prevalent in the field of Early Childhood Care and Education. This project attempts to critically examine the domination of Eurocentric, romanticized view of children and childhood. A group of early childhood educators gathered to discuss how Rousseau’s image of the child as nature, who is pure and innocent, impacts our More than ages and work as early childhood educators. Affrica Taylor (2013) and her stages: beyond the book Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood inform us that the image of the image of the nature’s child produce understanding that all children Rousseau’s child progress through ages and developmental stages. Domination of Rousseau’s image of the child as nature and being universal provoke the single story (Adichie, 2009) where it assumes that all children develop and learn the same. Through our discussion and engagements with the inquiry from October 2022 through February 2023, our group was able to recognize that it is important for us to understand and actively work with children’s diverse ways of being and knowing that is beyond the single story of the child. Ableist conventions towards patients within the Canadian medical system are commonly experienced and even more commonly undocumented, leaving an already vulnerable community unsure of any agency and protection they have inside these institutions. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of institutional Being My Brother's design code, public discourse and legal rights of patients on the Sister: An wrongful continuation of ableism in the medical system. Exploration of Using literature review, conversational yarning and Ableism Within the autoethnography, this study will explore how patients recalled Canadian Medical incidents of ableism related to the Canadian human rights code and System institutional limitations for penalizing certain ableist practices and behaviours. This study is from the perspective of conjecture and is written in chronological order of findings. While maintaining formality, this work is personal and intended to represent the contradictions and loopholes that exist within the institution and HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ my findings. This study acts as a first step in dismantling ableism within the Canadian medical system, by providing details of ableist behaviours and uncovering why they continue to happen. Further studies must be conducted to establish a call to action regarding progress toward reform. Sara Biluk Shelley Ferguson This presentation will review the literature on the procedure of Dr. Implementing Hanley’s Practical Functional Assessment – Skills Based Training Practical (PFA-SBT) in eliminating problem behavior while establishing Functional functional communication in individuals with autism. Ten studies Assessment for will be reviewed with a focus on the effectiveness of functional Challenging communication training, delay and denial toleration, the efficiency Behavior: A of reducing problem behavior, and the status as an evidence-based literature review procedure. In addition, social validity, limitations, and the ramifications for clinicians will be among the topics discussed. The grim discoveries of unmarked children’s graves in Canada have shed light on the neglect and abuse that occurred in residential schools. The proposed project aims to examine the challenges postsecondary Indigenous Student Service employees have and continue to face working at publicly funded post-secondary throughout BC in supporting the mental health of their students following the publicized discoveries of mass gravesites on former The Roles of residential school sites. Twelve employees will be asked openIndigenous Postended qualitative questions in focus groups to learn about their Secondary experiences supporting the mental health of Indigenous students Employees in using Indigenous research methods. This project will partner with Supporting Student Qayqayt Nation and follow OCAP principles. I aim to investigate Mental Health Indigenous employees and students’ mental health and wellness to discover what works and what does not work within BC postsecondary schools. Since unmarked graves are continuously being discovered at former residential schools, understanding the emotional and physical toll this has and continues to take on students is vital for providing a safe learning environment for Indigenous peoples in Canadian post-secondary institutions. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Shelley Cranstone Sophie Parke Thinking, Constructing, WonderingDrawing TOGETHER Thinking about how knowledge is constructed and how children learn in early childhood is changing. An alternate narrative, grounded in the reconceptualist perspective is unfolding, which has at its foundation, that knowledge is socially constructed together with others. Thinking about early childhood education through this paradigm reframes the past way of thinking about learning as being provided for children through presenting facts and information to children; to the possibilities and potentialities of thinking and constructing knowledge WITH children. What emerges when children, educators and families create and coconstruct knowledges in the places and communities, they live in, through drawing together? In this project drawing table became our place, children, educators and families, to gather together, wondering, talking, listening, constructing knowledges and thinking together over a four-month period. Mysteries unfolded, stories came about, with a continued invitation to think together. Canada’s electoral system is one of the only single-member plurality (SMP) systems left in modern democracies. Although it is not without certain benefits, many people over the years have critiqued the government for failing to address the significant shortcomings of SMP. As early as 1921, scholars, committees, and advocacy groups have pushed for electoral reform at both the provincial and federal level to embrace a more proportional system. Now more than ever, Canadians need to understand what it means to vote under our current system and the consequences of a Electoral Reform in changed system, both positive and negative. The Canadian public Canada at large has been excluded and under-informed on the importance and relevance of their electoral system. This paper uses an interdisciplinary framework to critically evaluate current scholarship on electoral reform and what it may or may not be able to accomplish for Canada. It will also identify critical gaps in the research, including but not limited to minority participation in government, youth engagement, and Indigenous representation. Until now, the debate around electoral reform has been too narrowly focused on political institutions when it should be centered on the benefit and participation of all Canadians, HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ especially those who have been historically excluded from political processes. Sydney Stromberg The use of Behavioral Interventions for Phobias Tamarapreye Wilson Food Safety Taylor Pennykid Storying Fabric HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ This presentation will review the literature on the use behavioural interventions for a variety of phobias. A phobia is the extreme fear of something, often of a specific object or situation. A phobia can be related to an anxiety disorder because of the severity of it and its effect on people. A total of ten studies will be reviewed with a focus on the overall findings, the behavioural intervention used, the type of single-subject research design employed, social validity, inter-observer agreement, as well as implications and recommendations. The purpose of this project is to find ways to help inform people in Canada about the uses and importance of practicing other healing systems through herbal plants and ways to implement them in different kinds of food for healthier living. Herbs are an essential part of the human diet. They have been used for centuries to treat a wide variety of ailments. There are many different herbs, but they all have similar properties and effects on the body. This paper will focus on mostly lived experiences and conversations with an old aunt who specializes in herbal healing called Agbo. Agbo is considered an alternative/herbal medicine in the western world. Still, it has been used in Africa to treat hundreds of sicknesses and diseases in African countries like Nigeria and is still used as a form of treatment. I'm looking forward to bringing some of these learned ideas and experiences into the Canadian culture and showing the public alternative ways to have a healthy nutritional diet and medicines when sick through herbs for better well-being. The area of focus for my inquiry is on the untold stories of fabric and the role fabric plays in an early childhood space. The theoretical framework of this inquiry is heavily embedded within a Post-humanist and Materialism perspective. Olsson (2009) refers to Deleuze and Guattari in expressing the need to meet materials, to meet fabric as something new to discover and explore. What we set out to discover through our ongoing encounters with fabric were the emerging curiosities and wonders that fabric evokes within the educators and children, and how stories flourished throughout these moments of meeting. Our journey together led us down a path of discovery, one which invited the children and educators to pay attention to not only the fabric itself but what these encounters are telling us. Our stories created a space for an unravelling of ideas and an invitation to explore our imagination. The children and educators learned from the fabric's unique materiality, leaning into the different characteristics of each diverse fabric. Tierney Crickmay This project is a visual depiction of the written work by Vandana Shiva from her book titled "Oneness vs. the 1%". It is a series of Oneness vs the 1%, poignant quotes, with a related image and set to music. This project Vandana Shiva is meant to be an experiential learning piece that encompasses the overall tone of the book and highlights key factors Toni Dicastri Art as Event This presentation focuses on Art as Event in an early childhood setting. This shapes art as a highly relational practice that is based on post humanism and new materialist theories. This inquiry draws attention to how very young children’s artistic processes are situated within a network of relations. Children are in a cocollaboration with human and more than human others, and relationships are created through these events. In this network of relations there are not only other children, but educators, materials, places, spaces, time, histories and other entities. Meanings are composed together with others inside of these events. Each art event is situational and nuanced. Vanessa Herley Using FCT to decrease SIB A review of the literature about using functional communication to decrease self-injurious behaviours in children, youth and adults. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ My research seeks to uncover how the state of Arizona and its capital city Phoenix have found themselves in a historical drought. I will demonstrate how neoliberalism, ‘The Gospel of Growth, and western development have combined to create a situation where drought in the desert has become a historical catastrophe rather than a simple environmental truth realized long ago. My research Drought in the details the embraced and ignored beliefs, policies and ideas of desert: Growth influential leaders that helped shape the desert mega-city. Water Wesley never stops in resources have never been taken seriously as Phoenix grew Dekleer Phoenix Arizona, infinitely outward and I will call into question just how a drought even when the can be called a crisis when water supply has been mostly ignored. I water does. expect my research will reveal the consequences of approaching landscapes and geography through the modernist paradigm; seeing problems as something to be solved or tamed. Finally, it will discuss the Indigenous tribes located in the area and how they approach water. The lessons learned from these of tribes will provide not only a conclusion for the project, but also a plan for Arizona’s water future that avoids repeating past mistakes. In early education, children's development is hardly separated from the world surrounding them. Children's lives are shaped by the places they live in (Somerville, 2010). This living inquiry explores how children use their ways to build relationships and understanding with the world around them. For the living inquiry, we have worked with children and educators in Smiling Star How children build Daycare-Pemberton, and discovered more possibilities that children Yonglin Zheng relationship around build relationships in various ways. For children, words are not the them only way to communicate and express themselves, they also use body language, eye contact, facial expression, and some arts such as drawing and music to explore the world and build relationships with others. In daily life, children construct meaning and build knowledge about the world through interactions with educators, peers, and their surrounding environment HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Teaching Social Skills to Yung-chi Hsu Adolescents with ASD Yvonne Ma Drawing with a Tree: Drawing as Social Practice HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ The purpose of the research is to find out ways to teach adolescents with autism spectrum disorder social skills. What kind of intervention is the best way for them to learn social interacting skills, and how can we help them to deal with the failures (bullying or ending friendships)? The research was done through singlesubject research designs, including multiple baselines and alternating treatment designs. We are looking forward to finding a beat intervention that can help adolescents with autism spectrum disorder interact with others, make friends, and have conversations independently without prompts and helps. The result that we are looking for is I would like to find the best way to support the children and apply the interventions to my clients and others, that can help them react to others more naturally and not need to ask for help and be alone in the class without teacher assistants or other adults and teachers around. 1. This inquiry focuses on drawing as social practice as a group of children explore their relationship with a tree in their playground. 2. Using social constructionist perspectives and drawing as a language, this inquiry project explores how children’s how knowledge and learning are co-constructed through drawing with others. It situates learning as a collective process where ideas are communicated and co-constructed, reconsidered, and reconstructed with others. 3. Drawing together invited an investigation of colour and tree relationships through noticing, speculating, and experimenting. 4. This inquiry project is significant because it explores a possibility in early childhood education where spaces for thinking, investigating, and inviting relationships are created through drawing with others. Zanthia Bérubé This essay aims to explore how humanity has developed storytelling as a way to cope with existential dread and the fear of death. It argues that humans have a unique ability to project Death-time Stories themselves and identify within stories, which entices us to imagine - A look at the use a better ending to our own lives. This essay uses theories put forth of filmmaking and by modern anthropologists, psychologists like Freud and storytelling to philosophers like Carl Yung and Heidegger to explore our need for create a sense of meaning-making and understand just how important storytelling is meaning through for our fears. Other than being a great way for humanity to escape, escapism and it was found that stories also help deconstruct philosophical imagination to help concepts to make them more accessible. They may also do the humanity cope with opposite and make us aware of our impending doom, making us difficult existential more mindful and appreciative of the present moment. This essay is questions such as pertinent as it helps storytellers understand the power they hold on the fear of death. the audience to convey messages regarding the fear of death, whether it is to shock or to soothe, every story has an impact on its audience. Zoe Linford The intension of this inquiry was to explore what it might mean to invite time as an equal participant in our daily art experiences, The Transformative specifically in relation to watercolour paint. Clock time is always Outcomes of present in our lived experiences. With this in mind, we moved Welcoming Time through an inquiry with time and watercolour paint to discover how into Art Encounters we can challenge concepts of productivity and what we label as worthwhile ways to spend time. HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ Zuyu Liang The living inquiry mainly focuses on how children between zero and three develop a deep understanding of nature to materialist perspectives in early childhood contexts. Later, we connect what we encounter and experience with art. Meandering is the beginning point of this inquiry. During the meandering, we slow down to present and notice the surroundings rather than hurry to the Reconceptualizing destination. Meandering is a way to learn because it allows us to Nature, Materialist notice and discover something new such as the life of materials. Perspectives and Materials as living objects rather than static and wait for us to do Art something. They can act and respond in different encounters. As children create art based on their experience (Burton, 2000), we begin focusing on how art tells daily experiences with nature. As children under three scribble with painting and drawing, they narrate their ideas rather than doing nothing. Marking is more than just making. Scribbling with drawing and painting carries significant meaning HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ PUBLISH YOUR WORK IN THE CAPILANO UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY https://capu.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/capu%3Astudent-research HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/ HTTPS://SRS.CAPILANOU.CA/