Medical Education, vol. 37, no. 10, 2003, pp. 861-868
Description
Evaluation of cultural competency training in a Swedish hospital found areas where it was present, absent or hidden; proposes curriculum changes to address inadequacies.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 172-176
Description
Author argues that gun museums—especially those attached to academic institutions—serve to silence the Indigenous voice regarding the history of the American West, promote a white-supremist agenda, and function as a tool of ongoing colonialism in the United States.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 3, Preserving and Protecting Knowledge, Spring, 2014, pp. 20-23
Description
Discusses teaching and learning about cultural knowledge as a community endeavor that can facilitate the preservation of Tohono O'odham culture and tradition.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 394-399
Description
Author’s details their personal experiences of discrimination and isolation while attending graduate school; and the subsequent ostracization by her home community.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 53, no. 1, 2014, pp. 23-41
Description
Study looked one predominately White institution lacking Native American organizations and found that increased social interactions had a positive impact on grades, but reduced graduation rates.
Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, no. 165, October 29, 2014, pp. [1]-35
Description
Answers questions relating to Aboriginal education, what it should be and how it should differ from mainstream education. Uses British Columbia as an example.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 400-411
Description
The author describes his experience moving from position as a judge in Texas to that of a professor in a post-secondary institution; notes barriers to tenure and promotion and discusses how University policies created conflicts for him as a member of the legal profession.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 386-393
Description
The author details some of the barriers faced by Indigenous students in both attending and preparing to attend post-secondary institutions; explores the experience of both staff and students with systemic racism at the college they are employed at.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 177-188
Description
Author draws on their experience working within the academy to illustrate institutional discrimination against Indigenous scholars, graduate students, and allies who choose to confront issues of genocide, land theft, and colonization in their work.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 264-266
Description
Author articulates many of the differences between Indigenous ways of learning and knowing and mainstream Western pedagogies and epistemologies; suggests considerations and strategies for integrating the different worldviews in postsecondary education settings.
Developed to provide a brief introduction to historical and contemporary circumstances which have produced negative health outcomes for Aboriginal individuals and communities, as well as an appreciation of their resilience and strength despite centuries of discrimination.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2003, pp. 207-226
Description
Critique of social science research that has an "other" as an object of research or Indigenous insider and the dilemma this causes for academic researchers.
Indigenous Social Research : A Methodological Framework
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Maggie Walter
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Description
Provides explanation of Indigenous methodologies, compares Indigenous and Western methodologies, and discusses two examples from Australia which illustrate how the principles can be put into practice.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 9, Special Edition In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the School of Indigenous Relations, February 2014, pp. 83-91
Description
Surveys provide key results to help improve the curriculum and the content of courses in the Aboriginal Native Social Work program.
Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 83 to read article.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 3, no. 2, Indigenous Knowledges: Resurgence, Implementation, and Collaboration in Social Work, December 2014, pp. 1-4
Description
Introduction to themed issue containing articles based on presentations given at the Second International Indigenous Voices in Social Work, July 8-11, 2013.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 46-49
Description
Short Introductory piece to the special issue which describes the editor’s experience following the release of the Call for Papers for an AIQ issue dedicated to the experience of Indigenous students, staff and faculty within the academic intuition.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 132-154
Description
Author discusses the pressure put on Indigenous academics by their Euro-American colleagues to conform to the culture of the University in order to receive tenure, and the conflicts that this can create for Indigenous academics in their communities.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 3, Preserving and Protecting Knowledge, Spring, 2014
Description
Introductory article to this themed issue illustrates the unique ways tribal colleges and universities are preserving, protecting and disseminating cultural knowledge to future generations.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, 2003, pp. 185-194
Description
Critical examination of First Nations Studies; the writer looks forward to the day when there are more First Nations' students participating in these courses.
Canadian Critical Race Conference 2003: Pedagogy and Practice
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Rauna Kuokkanen
Description
Article from the Canadian Critical Race Conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 2-4, 2003, which was dedicated to the ending of racial oppression.
Looks at how to teach and perceive worldviews that are different from one's own.
Project goal to develop a teaching and learning model that would link historical and cultural divides between groups to facilitate cross learning with a focus on interconnectedness and kinship.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 27, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Native Experiences in the Ivory Tower, Winter-Spring, 2003, pp. 441-451
Description
Author describes a range of non-academic racism that they have been subject to—micro and macro aggressions enacted by campus security, administrators, and other staff—while employed as an instructor at a university.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 9, Special Edition In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the School of Indigenous Relations, February 2014, pp. 11-21
Description
Discusses how the culturally-specific social work program started.
Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 11 to read article.
Northern Public Affairs, vol. 2, Special Issue 2014: Revitalizing Education in Nunangat, 2014, pp. 66-69
Description
Overview of program that has Inuit-specific course content and academic cultural skill development.
Entire issue on one pdf. Scroll down to page 66 to read article.
Shows mainstream society importance of high self-esteem differ from the theory of self-regard based on Indigenous traditions based on interconnectedness.