Contends that language immersion or bilingual education can lead to improved educational outcomes, but ideally there should be a minimum of 6 to 7 years of instruction.
Comments on teaching the same curriculum to students in northern Canada as southern Canada and the arising difficulties.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 5.
Brief document discusses female leadership in the community, with a focus on Sharon Bernard, principal of Membertou Elementary School, and her efforts to introduce culture-based education.
Accompanied by video directed by Catherine Martin.
(Duration: 20:29).
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 51, no. 3, The Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992 - Retrospect and Prospects, 2012, pp. 70-91
Description
"This article explores how local community practice has changed whereby communities are choosing to revitalize and maintain their languages, creating official policies to support those languages and thereby creating new speakers".
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 51, no. 3, The Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992 - Retrospect and Prospects, 2012, pp. 30-45
Description
Looks at a school that for 14 years has produced 100 percent high school graduation and 80 percent college attendance but is federally required to test students in English rather than the language they are taught in.
Excellent teacher resource includes links to information and videos about the following topics: worldviews, oral traditions, Elders, culture and language, kinship, Aboriginal and treaty rights, healing historical trauma, symbolism and traditions, connection to land, Indigenous pedagogy, well-being, and traditional environmental knowledge.
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