St. Denis, Verna

Study conducted to discover how to better promote and support the success of Aboriginal education in public schools, and how to create an on-going dialogue regarding learning within teacher organizations and the broader educational community.

Examines how anti-racist education could provide a foundation to forge alliances between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities in search of social justice in education.

Qualitative research study involving teachers, parents, elders, and students evaluated teaching methods, course materials and cultural activities, and developed recommendations for improvement. Conducted at Melfort and Unit Comprehensive Collegiate.

Discusses a qualitative methodology guided by the core principles of collaboration and partnership where research brings together community and academic expertise to benefit First Nation communities.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2002.

Looks at research conducted among Indigenous people in Botswana, Africa to build on concept of 'globalization from below' or human community.

Prepared for Minister's National Working Group on Education, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. Current as of 2002.

Study found expectation was that racial identity alone would make for effective teachers who can solve problems and eradicate racism.

Examines the lack of equal access to health care for Indigenous populations in Canada and the root causes of this inequality .

Story of the collaboration between the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre and the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre to bring together a roundtable meeting with more than 50 experts who would share stories of transformation, hope, and success.

Argues that placing Aboriginal culture and history on parr with other groups in a multicultural context is a way to ignore their unique position and sovereign rights in Canada.

Book review of: Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival edited by Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence.

Suggests that the anti-oppressive curriculum on the Canadian prairies must be examined to evaluate how racial identifications are constructed through commonplace national discourses.

Film highlights Canada's history of racism and injustice toward Indigenous peoples which persists to this day in both the larger society and the educational system and how Indigenous culture and perspectives must be taught and valued in the classroom in order to address inequities and change the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. Duration: 32:29.

Draws on the authors' experience in teaching a cross-cultural course to a predominantly non-Aboriginal class to identify attitudes that cause resistance to admitting racism is a problem.