Contends that Aboriginal participation rates will lag behind the non-Aboriginal population until major reforms are executed in elementary and secondary school education and the curriculum used in Aboriginal schools.
Co-Operative Partnerships in Teacher Education: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ATEE Conference, October 21-25 2006, Portorož,, Slovenia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jane McCarthy
Virginia Usnick
Larry Wallen
Description
Describes partnership to enhance student learning through linking traditional values and philosophy, improved professional teacher practice and increased parental involvement.
Looks at programs that foster innovation and facilitate academic success for young adults, as well as improvements to accountability, resources and control to enhance educational services.
Comments on the lack of training teachers and administrators receive to help them respond to the needs of First Nations students, and the need for curricula that reduces the disconnect between educational content and students and parents.
Covers several themes: early childhood development, language and culture programs, teaching and curriculum, community involvement, student characteristics, and factors contributing to post-secondary success. Current as of 2001.
Subcommittee produced extensive report which examined the history of residential, tribal and public education and made numerous recommendations to improve the system.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium Journal, p. [?]
Description
2009 Edition contains:
Indigenous Voices, Indigenous Symbols by Rachael Selby.
Matariki - A Symbol of Survival by Hohaia Collier.
Windigo Presence in Selected Contemporary Ojibwe Prose and Poetry by Linda LeGarde Grover.
Māori Symbolism - The Enacted Curriculum by Jamie Lambert.
Who Says I Don't Want to Come to School?
Canadian Teachers’ Federation Symposium on Aboriginal Issues in Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
David Rattray
Rita Bouvier
Jackie Moore Daigle
David Anderson
Marie Battiste
Doug Willard
Deborah Jeffrey
Celia-Haig Brown
Kaaren Dannenmann
Julius Buski
Cam Willett
Shawneen Pete-Willett
Description
Presentation titles included The Aboriginal Worldview and the Four Goals of Aboriginal Education, Learning About Walking in Beauty: Placing Aboriginal Studies in Canadian Classrooms, Bringing Aboriginal Education into the Mainstream, Role and Challenges for CTF and Member Organizations, and Creating a Different Vision of Education.
Recommends several considerations for development of a program: spirituality, traditional values, TEK (traditional ecological knowledge), maintain high standards, recognize differences in beliefs with western science.
An overview of First Nations-specific curriculum; identifies the curriculum needs, barriers and challenges; looks at cost estimates for curriculum development ; and makes recommendations to improve the current First Nations curriculum.
Study undertaken to assess participation/access to and success in programs designed to introduce students to college curriculum while still in high school.
Reviews literature and discusses the survival of Indigenous languages, what communities are doing to safe guard their languages, what is working well and what is not.
Broad recommendations focus on language and a holistic approach. Others are mandated across four areas: early childhood, prekindergarten to Grade 12, post-secondary, and labour force attachment.