Deborah Simmons

Biographic Data

ID3607178
NAMEDeborah Simmons
GIVEN NAMESDeborah
FAMILY NAMESimmons
SIGNATURESIMMONS D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Manitoba
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS24
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • In Pursuit of “A Good Life”

    Open AccessSuzanne Mill, Deborah Simmons et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2023

    This article adopts a cross-cultural lens to understand why Inuit women enter and leave mining jobs in Inuit Nunangat (Inuit homelands), Canada, using Nunavik as a case study. Previous research has often depicted Indigenous women as either victims of mining or as anti-mining activists. Interviews with ten Nunavimmiut women (Inuit women of Nunavik), who had worked or were currently working at one of two mines in Nunavik, complicate these portrayal…

  • Creative convergence

    Open AccessJean L Polfus, Deborah Simmons et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017Cited by: 3

    Polfus, J. L., D. Simmons, M. Neyelle, W. Bayha, F. Andrew, L. Andrew, B. G. Merkle, K. Rice, and M. Manseau. 2017. Creative convergence: exploring biocultural diversity through art. Ecology and Society 22(2):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08711-220204

  • Eghágots'enetę (Learning Together)

    Open AccessJean L Polfus, Micheline Manseau et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2016Cited by: 2

    Polfus, J. L., M. Manseau, D. Simmons, M. Neyelle, W. Bayha, F. Andrew, L. Andrew, C. F. C. Klütsch, K. Rice, and P. Wilson. 2016. Łeghágots'enetę (learning together): the importance of indigenous perspectives in the identification of biological variation. Ecology and Society 21(2):18.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08284-210218

  • Working with Northern Communities to Build Collaborative Research Partnerships

    Open AccessJ M E Tondu, A M Balasubramaniam et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2014

  • Improving Reading Comprehension and Social Studies Knowledge in Middle School

    Open AccessSharon Vaughn, Elizabeth Swanson et al.ARTICLEReading Research Quarterly2013Cited by: 13References: 21

    This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a content acquisition and reading comprehension treatment implemented by eighth‐grade social studies teachers. Using a within‐teacher design, the eighth‐grade teachers’ social studies classes were randomly assigned to treatment or comparison conditions. Teachers ( n = 5) taught the same instructional content to both treatment and comparison classes, but the treatment classes used instructional practic…

  • Partnerships for Social Change in the Canadian North

    Open AccessKen J Caine, M J Salomons et al.ARTICLEDevelopment and Change2007Cited by: 4References: 32

    In the two decades since Alexander Lockhart's seminal article on the insider-outsider dialectic in native socioeconomic development, a great deal of change has occurred in the Canadian North and new challenges have emerged for community-based participatory research and development. This is particularly the case in the Northwest Territories, where Aboriginal communities are facing for the first time the triple challenges of Aboriginal land claims …

  • In Tribute to Howard Adams

    Deborah SimmonsARTICLEStudies in Political Economy2002

    Howard Adams-Metis academic, activist and leader of the Red Power movement in Canada during the 1960s and 1970s-died of a sudden stroke on his 80th birthday, 8 September 2001

  • Bibliography of Julian D. Hayden

    Deborah Simmons, Deborah L SimmonsARTICLEKIVA1998

  • Teaching in Natural Areas

    Deborah SimmonsARTICLEEnvironmental Education Research1996Cited by: 1

    This paper describes and discusses a study of urban teachers’ perceptions of the use of various natural settings for environmental education. In the study 59 teachers were interviewed. Each teacher was asked to examine a set of black and white photographs depicting four different natural settings. For each setting the teacher made a judgement as to whether particular subject areas (e.g. science, social studies and art) and lesson activities (e.g.…

  • Whakairo

    Peter Gathercole, Deborah Simmons et al.ARTICLEMan1989Cited by: 1

    This is the first analysis of Maori carving styles by tribal area ever written. Simmons draws on the work of Kendall and an important new source to provide a coherent analysis of style and symbolism in Maori carving. The first part of the book discusses the mythological context and symbolism in Maori art, and the second is a painstaking analysis of the older serpentine and more recent square styles by tribes following the main lines of intertriba…

  • Whakairo

    E M Shaw, Deborah Simmons et al.ARTICLEThe South African Archaeological…1987