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    Building Language Teacher Awareness of Colonial Histories and Imperialistic Oppression Through the Linguistic Landscape
    (Springer Nature, 2020) Sterzuk, Andrea
    This chapter considers the potential of the linguistic landscape to address the challenge of developing critical multilingual awareness in a predominantly English monolingual and white settler student body in a Canadian teacher education program. The chapter begins with a historical overview of colonial efforts to suppress multilingualism in the province through education, provides a review of relevant literature, and describes a teacher education linguistic landscape activity in relation to this literature. From there, the chapter provides details and findings from a small study of pre-service teachers. The chapter includes examples of student photo analysis as well as a discussion of the usefulness of “noticing” the textual practices of public spaces in helping student teachers to build their awareness of colonial histories and imperialistic oppression. In this way, the chapter addresses the question of how the linguistic landscape can become a productive site for project-based learning in language teacher education.
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    Chapter C: Region North America
    (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017) Bradley, Cara
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    Decolonization and Justice: An Introductory Overview
    (The University of Regina OER Publishing Program, 2022) Asadullah, Muhammad; Cortez, Charmine; Holding, Geena; Said, Hamza; Smith, Jenna; Schick, Kayla; Mudyara, Kudzai; Korchak, Megan; Kimber, Nicola; Shawush, Noor; Dawndyck, Stephanie
    "‘Decolonization and Justice: An Introductory Overview’ emerged from the undergraduate students’ final assignment in JS-419 on Advanced Seminar in Criminal Justice at the University of Regina’s Department of Justice Studies, Canada. This book focused on decolonization of multiple justice-related areas, such as policing, the court system, prison, restorative justice, and the studies of law and criminology. This is quite likely one of the few student-led book projects in Canada covering the range of decolonization topics. Ten student authors explored the concept of decolonization in law, policing, prison, court, mental health, transitional justice and restorative justice. We are grateful to receive funding support from the University of Regina’s OER Publishing Program Small Project Grant, which enabled us to hire a professional copy editor for the book."
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    Discernibility in the Analysis of Binary Card Sort Data
    (Springer, 2013-10-11) Hepting, Daryl H.
    In an open card sorting study of 356 facial photographs, each of 25 participants created an unconstrained number of piles. We consider all 63,190 possible pairs of photos: if both photos are in the same pile for a participant, we consider them as rated similar; otherwise we consider them as rated dissimilar. Each pair of photos is an attribute in an information system where the participants are the objects. We consider whether the attribute values permit accurate classification of the objects according to binary decision classes, without loss of generality. We propose a discernibility coefficient to measure the support of an attribute for classification according to a given decision class pair. We hypothesize that decision class pairs with the support of many attributes are more representative of the data than those with the support of few attributes. We present some computational experiments and discuss opportunities for future work.
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    English Monolingualism in Canada: A Critical Analysis of Language Ideologies
    (Springer Nature, 2021) Sterzuk, Andrea; Shin, Hyunjung
    This chapter examines the construction of English monolingualism as a historical and ongoing normative educational practice in Canada. Canada presents an interesting case because, at first glance, it might appear not to fit the English monolingual mold. Since 1969, Canada has been an officially bilingual country (English and French) with notable levels of multilingualism, in urban centres. Yet, currently, 56% of Canadians are English monolinguals (Statistics Canada, 2017). This chapter begins by examining the construction of English monolingualism as a historical normative educational practice in Canada with a particular focus on the policies and history of Saskatchewan, one province with particularly high levels of English monolingualism. Understanding the considerable state efforts towards producing Canada as a monolingual English country are useful for understanding the present-day monolingual mindsets of many Anglophone Canadians. Next, we explore how present-day Canadian official bilingualism policy is framed within ideologies of bilingualism as two parallel monolingualisms (Heller, 2007; Heller & McElhinny, 2017; Irvine & Gal, 2000). Finally, drawing from contemporary examples in higher education policy and practices in Saskatchewan, we discuss examples of equitable educational initiatives to better support plurilingual competence of all language learners through educational policy, curriculum, and practices.
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    Global Femicide
    (OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES PUBLISHING PROGRAM REGINA, 2022) Anderson, Brenda; Pete, Shauneen; Kubik, Wendee; Rucklos-Hampton, Mary
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    A Linear Model for Three-Way Analysis of Facial Similarity
    (Springer, Cham, 2018-05-18) Hepting, Daryl H.; Bin Amer, Hadeel Hatim; Yao, Yiyu
    Card sorting was used to gather information about facial similarity judgments. A group of raters put a set of facial photos into an unrestricted number of different piles according to each rater’s judgment of similarity. This paper proposes a linear model for 3-way analysis of similarity. An overall rating function is a weighted linear combination of ratings from individual raters. A pair of photos is considered to be similar, dissimilar, or divided, respectively, if the overall rating function is greater than or equal to a certain threshold, is less than or equal to another threshold, or is between the two thresholds. The proposed framework for 3-way analysis of similarity is complementary to studies of similarity based on features of photos.
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    Rendering Methods for Iterated Function Systems
    (North-Holland, 1991-12) Hepting, Daryl H.; Prusinkiewicz, Przemyslaw; Saupe, Dietmar
    This paper describes rendering methods for iterated function systems (IFS’s). The rendering process consists of the generation of a field of data using an IFS and its visualization by means of computer graphics. Two groups of methods are presented: 1. Rendering of the attractor A of an IFS. These attracting methods may visualize the geometry and additionally the invariant measure supported by the attractor. 2. Rendering the complement of the attractor. There are three approaches, namely methods representing Euclidean distance from A; repelling methods, computing the escape time of a point from A, and methods using (electrostatic) potential functions of the attractor. The last of these methods calculates integrals with respect to the invariant measure of the attractor. An algorithm which generates an approximation of such integrals with prescribed tolerance is presented. This provides an alternative to the usual approach based on Elton's ergodic theorem and time average of trajectories generated by the “chaos game", where no error bound is available. Algorithms specifying the details of all methods are presented, some of them in the form of pseudocode. Examples of images obtained using these algorithms are given. The relationship to previously developed methods for visualizing Mandelbrot and Julia sets is also discussed.
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    The Social Transformation of the Bulgarian Countryside
    (Hindustan Press, 1984) Smollett, Eleanor Wenkart; Lynch, Owen M.
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    Wena ka tapaymish ekwa kakway ka dipayhtamun? (Who Claims You and What Do You Claim?)
    (Canadian Scholars, 2024) Griffith Brice, Melanie; Fayant, Russel; Sterzuk, Andrea; Lewis, Patrick J