Gerald Galway

Memorial University of Newfoundland · Faculty of Education

This case study examined distance education (DE) teachers using remote science inquiry instruction (RSII) to support a hands-on lab for motion on an inclined plane. The RSII lesson was developed as part of an online lesson study (Lewis & Hurd, 2011). The activities of the teachers and students, collectively the case, are reported by the phase of le...

For this study, set in the Newfoundland Labrador context, we surveyed 151 undergraduate engineering students on demographic, social, economic, family, school-based, and personal influences relating to their decision to pursue an undergraduate engineering degree. Following Bourdieuan theoretical framework, we offer qualitative analysis of quantitati...

In this yearlong qualitative study, situated within cognitive and social constructivist theory, the authors investigate the adoption of tablets (iPads) by a group of nine teacher educators for use in pre-service teacher instruction. Using data gathered from focus groups following each of three teaching terms, the authors examined how teacher educat...

The present study explores business school graduates’ experiences in acquiring computing skills, as well as employers’ experiences with the computer proficiency of recent business school graduates. Following on the work of Gibbs, Steel & Kuiper (2011) this study examines the experiences of business graduates from Memorial University of Newfoundland...

This chapter outlines the status of science education in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Starting with pre-Confederation, to Newfoundland joining the Confederation of Canada, and then to recent educational reform, Goodnough and Galway situate science education within the broader context of educational change. A description is provided of...

In this paper, we examine the role of makerspaces as a form of co-curricular experiential learning for shaping the pedagogical practices of pre-service teachers. We recruited six (6) pre-service technology education teachers to act as facilitators for a series of intermediate level (grades 7-9) maker sessions, conducted over two semesters, in our t...

The global demand for science and engineering professionals is at its peak, yet relatively few Canadian students choose post-secondary programs in certain STEM-related fields leading to an under capacity in the labour market. In this study we used a quantitative research methodology to investigate the influence of family determinants on the decisio...

The story of teacher education in Newfoundland and Labrador is firmly rooted in the province’s sometimes-turbulent educational history. Some five hundred ago the Europeans first established settlements on the eastern edge of island of Newfoundland; however, the formal education system was slow to develop. Well into the twentieth century the former...

In recent years, publicly funded school boards in several Canadian provinces have been consolidated into larger regional school boards, as each provincial government with legal authority for public education has sought to rationalize education delivery. Nowhere has this loss of regional authority for education been demonstrated so clearly than in N...

Within the context of an apparent transnational agenda of accountability, standardization, and increased government control of public education in many countries, including Canada, a growing number of constituencies question the legitimacy of school boards and argue for their elimination. Herein the authors report results of their pan Canadian stud...

In this paper we compare the use of research and other evidence in the decision-making practices of two groups of education policy elites, situated in different contexts – provincial education ministries and school districts. Data are derived from two pan-Canadian studies: Galway (2006) and Sheppard, Galway, Brown and Wiens (2013). The findings sho...

This chapter explores several questions inherent in the discourse surrounding teacher supply and demand with a focus on the Atlantic Provinces. I examine the demographic context of education in Atlantic Canada and discuss some of the indicators and historical trends that bear on the employment outlook for new teacher graduates. Based on the availab...

Across Canada there have been numerous recent examples of incidents where the political and ideological interests of provincial governments have run counter to the mandates of school districts. In this pan-Canadian study, focus groups were conducted with school board trustees and school district superintendents to examine the relationships between...

Between 1970 and 1990 enrolment in Newfoundland and Labrador schools dropped by 22 percent. The first wave of major educational reform (1990 to 2000) saw massive reductions in public school expenditures and the reduction of more than 1650 teachers. Facing continued enrolment loss and a large current account deficit, in 2004, government again consol...

The title of this presentation is Evidence-Based Policy Development for Literacy and Numeracy and while the focus of this conference is how, through policy and practice we can improve literacy and numeracy levels across Canadian provinces, the question of policymakers’ use of research-based evidence is broader than literacy and numeracy. So I suppo...

Newfoundland and Labrador has many rural communities, low literacy rates, high unemployment, declining enrollment and population, and teacher shortages. Policy responses have been to consolidate schools, increase rural teacher pay, increase teacher recruitment, implement distance learning and distance professional development, intensify assessment,...

Discusses teacher supply-and-demand issues in Canada. Includes a review of current research, the consequences of a teacher surplus, and efforts to address teacher shortages in Newfoundland and Labrador. Suggests teacher labor-market policy implications involving school districts, provisional governments, and teacher-training institutions. (PKP)

This study was undertaken to determine whether or not changes occur in blood vessels, axons or glia of the optic nerve as the result of streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Diabetes was induced in 4 weeks old Sprague-Dawley rats. At 12 and 16 weeks of age, the rats were killed and the optic nerves prepared for examination. The number and density of blo...

The relationship between sympathetic innervation and arterial medial development has been examined in normotensive, hypertensive, and diabetic rats. Using the jejunal artery as a model, the number of nerve fibres innervating the artery as determined from fluorescent preparations, and the medial thickness and lumen diameter as measured from resin em...

The movements of harbour seals and grey seals through a narrow channel connecting their hauling grounds with the sea were recorded during the daylight hours from 14 to 27 June 1980. There was only a slight increase in seabound travel after the seals were disturbed by humans, and the animals did not necessarily go to sea when the sand flats they hau...

Evidence is given which suggests that harbour seals use some form of echolocation. When visual cues are reduced, these seals make click vocalizations similar to those of animals which are known to echolocate. They are able to find live fish in total darkness, producing clicks while doing so.