Adult Education

Discusses program that developed skills through the use of environmentally sustainable building methods. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.

Articles from The Westcoast Reader, a newspaper designed for adults improving their reading skills. Provides stories for three reading levels, exercises, and answer keys.

Results of a survey conducted with 20 key programs to identify elements which contribute to student success.

Provides statistics on demographics, education and training levels, income, employment rates, career planning services, and Gross Domestic Product by sector, gives results of Northern Career Development Requirements Survey, and makes recommendations based on findings.

Looks at a set of entertaining DVD's designed to promote awareness of the Essential Skills program.

Discusses a program which provides unemployed Aboriginal youth the targeted training they need to obtain either advanced training or employment in a specific occupation or trade.

Program provides essential skill training for underground mining, surface mining, and minerals processing operator.

Comments on program that focuses on helping unemployed or underemployed adult learners to increase literacy levels.

Looks at programs to help adult learners increase their academic levels while also enhancing their workplace essential skills.

Comments on a program meant to help working-age adults in Yukon communities acquire Essential Skills (ES)

Looks at a program designed to help learners in the community gain education to allow for further training and employment.

Description and evaluation of project conducted in the communities of Opitciwan, Manawan, and Wemotaci, Quebec. Involved training of workers and counsellors, establishment of support network, awareness and education of the legacy of residential schools, and healing. Sources of information include project files, interviews conducted with members of project team and service providers, and other documents and data.

Comments on a program designed to help students identify, plan, implement and evaluate a community project.

Comments on the success of the classroom model which has successfully helped a large percentage of participants gain employment in the childcare field.

Looks at an essential skills program that involved a sewing project of the participant's choice.

Discusses current practices for training, supporting and offering professional development to literacy practitioners.

Briefly celebrates the graduation of 13 Aboriginal health workers against the Customized Aboriginal Health Worker National Competency Standards, Certificate III.

Adult and Vocational Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of New Brunswick, 1997.

Interview with Lawrence Flett , former student at Gordon Indian Residential School.

Overview of a creative discussion guide, prepared by writers from Anglican, United and Presbyterian churches, that can be used to explore the issue of forced assimilation of First Nations through residential schools.

[Teaching and Curriculum Leadership Thesis] (Ed.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2005.

Document focuses on four areas: vision, understanding, reasoning, and movement (recommendations).

Guide to accompany film, Climate on the Edge: Arctic Mission. Oriented towards senior elementary, secondary school and adult education. Contains discussion questions and activities to raise awareness.

Comments on several programs and opportunities that the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition (ONLC) provides to empower Native people to improve literacy rates.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.20.

Attempts to better understand and improve National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN) and other similar networks.

Describes vocational education programme offered to participants with elementary and lower secondary school education. Opportunities and challenges for industry, academia and community are discussed.

Describes the programming and services delivered to the Native American community by the Rough Rock Demonstration School.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Queen's University at Kingston, 2000.

Contends that education for disadvantaged adults often requires support beyond the realm of academics.

Overview of iSisters Technology Mentoring, a program that helps Inuit women obtain technology training to address literacy, basic skills upgrading, and find jobs.

Pre-and post evaluations of the FOODcents courses were used to assess confidence in the ability to buy healthy foods on a budget, nutrition knowledge, and dietary behaviours. Perceptions about course usefulness were comparable between the two groups, while Aboriginal participants showed larger improvements in applying the teachings.

Comments on the tools and type of support twelve college graduates required for academic success.

Distributed Learning Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2007.

Integrated Studies in Land and Food Systems Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

Summarizes findings from meetings with elected leaders, elders, community members, and representatives of agencies, government and industry. Makes recommendations in the areas of collaboration, coordination, community, capacity, communication and commitment. Follow-up Report.

Argues that teaching the works The Owl's Song and Smoke Signals can achieve standards-oriented objectives and inform students of relevant literary, historical, social, and cultural topics.

Adult and Higher Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--North Carolina State University, 2009.

Family and Consumer Sciences Thesis (M.S.)--South Dakota State University, 2006.

Culture and Value Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2000.

Discusses pilot project to help First Nations communities develop set of benchmarks adapting Aboriginal worldviews to western benchmarks. Uses the Circle of Learning, Saskatchewan Adult Literacy Benchmarks, levels 1 and 2.

Adult Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 2000.

Discusses how tribal colleges in Montana and North Dakota are initiating new innovative accelerated curriculum programs to address the region’s workforce necessities.

Reports results of an online survey conducted with Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) First Nations community members in 2014. Respondents were asked questions about how they used technologies, their experiences with them, and their perspectives on ICT in their communities

Compares and contrasts the experiences of two groups of adult Indigenous students, one from the northern Australian tropics and one from Northwestern Ontario. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 5.

Overview of the International Conference on Cross-Cultural Education in the North held in Montreal, August 18 to 21, 1969.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lakehead University, 2016.

Evaluates a Montreal based program focused on developing empathy and competency around the provision of culturally safe healthcare services. Identifies challenges related to the political will of healthcare practitioners to participate in decolonizing services.