First Nations Education in Canada
Title | First Nations Education in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Battiste |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Total Pages | 378 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0774844388 |
Written mainly by First Nations and Metis people, this book examines current issues in First Nations education.
The New Buffalo
Title | The New Buffalo PDF eBook |
Author | Blair Stonechild |
Publisher | Univ. of Manitoba Press |
Total Pages | 201 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 088755377X |
Post-secondary education, often referred to as "the new buffalo," is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain that access to and funding for higher education is an Aboriginal and Treaty right, the Canadian government insists that post-secondary education is a social program for which they have limited responsibility. In "The New Buffalo, "Blair Stonechild traces the history of Aboriginal post-secondary education policy from its earliest beginnings as a government tool for assimilation and cultural suppression to its development as means of Aboriginal self-determination and self-government. With first-hand knowledge and personal experience of the Aboriginal education system, Stonechild goes beyond merely analyzing statistics and policy doctrine to reveal the shocking disparity between Aboriginal and Canadian access to education, the continued dominance of non-Aboriginals over program development, and the ongoing struggle for recognition of First Nations run institutions.
Knowing the Past, Facing the Future
Title | Knowing the Past, Facing the Future PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Carr-Stewart |
Publisher | Purich Books |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2019-11-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0774880376 |
In 1867, Canada’s federal government became responsible for the education of Indigenous peoples: Status Indians and some Métis would attend schools on reserves; non-Status Indians and some Métis would attend provincial schools. The chapters in this collection – some reflective, some piercing, all of them insightful – show that this system set the stage for decades of broken promises and misguided experiments that are only now being rectified in the spirit of truth and reconciliation. The contributors individually explore what must change in order to work toward reconciliation; collectively, they reveal the possibilities and challenges associated with incorporating Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous teaching and healing practices into school courses and programs.
Education, Dominance and Identity
Title | Education, Dominance and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Diane B. Napier |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2013-02-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9462091250 |
This volume is a collection of research cases illustrating the interrelationships among education, dominance and identity in historical- and contemporary contexts. The cases reflect particular ways in which local-, group, and indigenous identities have been affected by a dominant discourse, how education can support or undermine identity, and how languages (including dominant and sub-dominant languages) and the language of instruction in schools are at the centre of challenges to hegemony and domination in many situations. Examining the issues in their research, the contributors reveal how members of minority-, disadvantaged-, or dominated groups (and the teachers and parents of children in their schools) struggle for recognition, for education in their own language, for acceptance within larger society, or for recognition of the validity of their responses to reform initiatives and policies that address a wider agenda but that fail to take into account key factors such as perceptions and subaltern status. Collectively, the chapters document research employing a variety of methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives, illustrating an array of universal and global issues in the field of comparative and international education. However, each of the cases its own unique character, as research findings and as personal reflections based on the authors’ experiential knowledge in particular social, cultural and political contexts. The contexts and regional settings include Chile, Canada, the United States, Hungary and elsewhere in East-Central Europe, France, Germany, Spain, Malaysia, Tanzania, South Africa, Cyprus, Tunisia, Egypt, Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Teaching Each Other
Title | Teaching Each Other PDF eBook |
Author | Linda M. Goulet |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2014-09-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0774827602 |
In recent decades, educators have been seeking ways to improve outcomes for Indigenous students. Yet most Indigenous education still takes place within a theoretical framework based in Eurocentric thought. In Teaching Each Other, Linda Goulet and Keith Goulet provide an alternative framework for teachers working with Indigenous students – one that moves beyond acknowledging Indigenous culture to one that actually strengthens Indigenous identity. Drawing on Nehinuw (Cree) concepts such as kiskinaumatowin, or “teaching each other,” Goulet and Goulet provide a new approach to teaching Indigenous students. Kiskinaumatowin transforms the normally hierarchical teacher-student relationship by making students and teachers equitable partners in education. Enriched with the success stories of educators who are applying Nehinuw concepts in Saskatchewan, Canada, this book demonstrates how this framework works in practice. The result is an alternative teaching model that can be used by teachers anywhere who want to engage with students whose culture may be different from the mainstream.
First Nations Education Policy in Canada
Title | First Nations Education Policy in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry Paquette |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 622 |
Release | 2010-10-30 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1442660317 |
How can First Nations schools in Canada offer a curriculum that is at once authentically and deeply Aboriginal while comparable in content, quality, and standards to provincial and territorial education? First Nations Education Policy in Canada is a critical analysis of policy developments affecting First Nations education since 1986 and a series of recommendations for future policy changes. Jerry Paquette and Gérald Fallon challenge the fundamental assumptions about Aboriginal education that have led to a Balkanized and ineffective educational system able to serve few of the needs of students. To move forward, the authors have developed a conceptual framework with which to re-envision the social, political, and educational goals of a self-governing First Nations education system. Offering a sorely needed fresh perspective on an issue vital to the community, First Nations Education Policy in Canada is grounds for critical reflection not only on education but on the future of Aboriginal self-determination.
Canada's First Nations and Cultural Genocide
Title | Canada's First Nations and Cultural Genocide PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Z. Cohen |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | 66 |
Release | 2016-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1508171629 |
For more than 100 years, Canada’s First Nations, Inuits, and Metis people endured an educational system designed to essentially remove all evidence of their native identities. Children were mistreated and stripped of their identities as they were “educated” in the ways of a nation that wanted no trace of the “Indian.” This insightful resource provides a history of Canada and outlines the development of attitudes that resulted in the residential education system, as well as a glimpse into the experiences of children who made it through. Readers will also learn about efforts to help a nation continue to heal.