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About Dying And Death: Thanatology's Place In Medical Curriculum, Jill Dombroski Sep 2023

About Dying And Death: Thanatology's Place In Medical Curriculum, Jill Dombroski

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This study explored how healthcare providers engage in advance care planning and end-of-life care conversations. The research explored what shapes their understanding and the extent to which concepts from thanatology they intuitively bring in, explicitly bring in, and maybe fail to recognize. To achieve this, constructivist grounded theory (CGT) methodology guided the design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation of the findings, which allowed for iteration across interviews and analysis with existing theories and data in the literature. The CGT design encouraged further engagement with the literature in an ongoing iterative fashion as well as with the analysis of the data. …


Reimagining Climate Relations With Feminist Earth-Based Spirituality Through Common Worlds Ethnography With Young Children, Meagan Montpetit Jan 2023

Reimagining Climate Relations With Feminist Earth-Based Spirituality Through Common Worlds Ethnography With Young Children, Meagan Montpetit

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Children are set to inherit a socially and ecologically damaged world. This thesis responds to this urgent concern by reimagining pedagogical and curriculum practices with educators and young children. Derived from pedagogical research at a childcare centre in London, Ontario, this thesis proposes engagement with common worlds frameworks and feminist earth-based spirituality as possible interventions to the dominant discourses of our times: capitalism, neoliberalism, settler colonialism, and anthropocentrism. A collection of scholarly book chapters and journal articles, this work advocates for situated and responsive pedagogical engagements that refute singular onto-epistemologies and speculate hopeful possibilities for more livable futures. In each …