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.
The First Nations Post-Secondary Education: Access
Opportunity and Outcomes Panel
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Presents a dialogue between AFN members to inform and advance a policy regarding the need to support post-secondary education and skills training for First Nations youth and adults.
First Nations Perspectives Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 65-88
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Looks at the seven indigenous languages of Manitoba, some more threatened then others, and the possibility of revitalizing these languages in Manitoba schools.
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 110, September 20, 2010, pp. [1]-33
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Looks at citizenship education and the need for traditional Aboriginal ways of learning to be incorporated into the curriculum to provide practical experiences in citizenship development.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 30, no. 2, 2010, pp. 289-314
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Looks at 2 projects, a summer study based on holistic learning and a medicine wheel garden project in support of an interdisciplinary approach to the natural sciences.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 14, no. 3, May 1975, pp. [7-12]
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Tribal American Consulting Corporation in 1972 began developing a preschool program to meet the needs of Native American students based on traditional tribal cultures but also appropriate for today's children.
Looks at the challenges affecting performance of Aboriginal students and the benefit of using principles which combine both Indigenous and western perspectives in the classroom.
Looks at how the Yekooche First Nation used the viable cluster-based learning approach effectively to maximizing the use of learning technologies to support collaborative, project-based learning and community-wide development.
Critical Social Work, vol. 11, no. 1, Special Indigenous Issue, 2010, pp. 27-41
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Looks at online learning with a historical review of adult education & its lack of engagement with Indigenous knowledge. Also discusses need to create culturally sensitive technology designed to include Indigenous knowledge.
Our Schools, Our Selves, vol. 19, no. 3, Anti-Racism in Education: Missing in Action, Spring , 2010, pp. 275-289
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Comments on the need to increase the knowledge about Aboriginal peoples for Canadian students, many who graduate high school with less than adequate levels of information.