Colloquium on Improving the Educational Outcomes of Aboriginal People Living Off-Reserve
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Saskatchewan Educational Leadership Unit
Description
Colloquium had six themes: policy questions, context of K-12 education, curriculum questions, transitions from education on-reserve to off-reserve, governance and service delivery and publicly regulated education systems.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. suppl., Aboriginal Englishes and Education, 2010, pp. 83-99, 154
Description
Discusses the successes and failures by the provincial government on their attempts to modernize schools, and promote racial tolerance and cross-cultural understanding.
College & University, vol. 86, no. 4, 2011, pp. 47-52
Description
Reviews barriers to postsecondary educational access and factors contributing to attrition by focusing on four groups: low income, first-generation, Aboriginal, and Francophone.
Presents a short story titled, The Indian in the Child, written by the seventeen-year-old winner of the Canadian Aboriginal Writing Challenge, Stephanie Wood.
Looks at suits filed by residential school survivors against the Canadian government for loss of culture, spirituality and physical and sexual abuse.
Duration: 7:13.
Report on the activities of the independent, quasi-judicial tribunal which administers the Independent Assessment Process for claims related to acts committed at the schools which resulted in physical and/or psychological injury..
Annual Report of the Chief Adjudicator to the Independent Assessment Process Oversight Committee
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat
Description
Report on the activities of the independent, quasi-judicial tribunal which administers the Independent Assessment Process for claims related to acts committed at residential schools which resulted in physical and/or psychological injury.
Report on the activities of the independent, quasi-judicial tribunal which administers the Independent Assessment Process for claims related to acts committed at the schools which resulted in physical and/or psychological injury.
Discusses how being raised in a unhealthy social environment and having cultural practices repressed contributed to Aboriginal criminality.
Duration: 6:35.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 18, no. 2, 2011, pp. 1-16
Description
A study examining the different reactions & psychological impact of Fighting Sioux-related images between American Indian and non-Indian college students’ at the University of North Dakota.
Journal of Rural Community Psychology, vol. 14, no. 2, 2011, p. [?]
Description
Looks at a community research project where students were funded by the California Native American Research Center for Health (CA-NARCH) initiative to assist with research.
Book review of: Indigenous Children's Education as Linguistic Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity?: A Global View by T. Skutnabb-Kangas and R. Dunbar.
Education Canada, vol. 50, no. 5, Special Issue on Marginalized Youth, 2010, p. [?]
Description
Discusses Canada's failure to address training and educational needs of First Nation, Métis and Inuit learners resulting in under performance, drop out rate and under-representation at higher learning institutions.
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 47, no. 2, Summer, 2001, pp. 196-201
Description
Book review of: Indigenous Education Models for Contemporary Practice: In Our Mother's Voice edited by Maenette Kae'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Beham and Joanne Elizabeth Cooper.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 88-95
Description
Looks at how a community-based model of education can provide an avenue for integrating Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing into a Western-based educational system.
Looks at examples from Apache, Ojibwe, Diné (Navajo), Hawaiian, and Blackfeet language programs.
Condensed version of this article in Heritage Language Journal, vol. 7 no. 2, Fall 2010, pp.138-152.