Cultural Framework

In personal narrative, author explains the influence of personal experiences, graduate research and Elder's teachings. Essay for graduate-level class.

Comments on a school that provides a culturally-safe place for young Aboriginal girls to explore adolescent female issues and to promote a positive and healthy gender and cultural identity.

Educational Leadership and Policy Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2012.

Yaqui community and school cultures were studied and suggestions made for reduction of dissonance within the schools through teacher training and curriculum development.

In this commentary article, the author describes the conditions and events surrounding a Diné school’s founding and the internal conflicts which eventually led to a breakdown between staff and leadership; highlights the potential learning for other nations working towards educational sovereignty.

Attempts to understand the experiences of Indigenous health workers training at the Centre for Indigenous Health Studies.

Address to the Second Annual Navajo Youth Conference stresses the importance of planning for your future by obtaining a good education.

Reports results of two main research activities: national scan of engagement at universities and consultations with 14 Mi’kmaw and allied educators, as well as youth focus group. Topics include potential engagement, supportive strategies, Indigenous knowledge systems, promising practices, creating systemic change, and recommendations.

Article discuss findings of 10 interviews with community language teachers in New South Wales regarding their approaches to and perceptions of their language education practice.

Reports on aboriginal statistics and the efforts of the mayor of Vancouver to improve the standard of living of the city's growing Aboriginal population.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.

Identifies family and university role modelling and support; indigenous teaching and learning practices, and coping mechanisms for racism as factors facilitating student success.

Ross Cummings of Buffalo Narrows believes young members of his community are losing their cultural identity.

Examines one school to work transition program, called the Aboriginal Youth Career Pathway, which operates in Alberta.

Topics include Yukon First Nations, their territories, languages, and governments, culturally responsive educational practices, working with Elders, and curriculum elaborations.

Discusses the experiential and collaborative engagement approach to learning utilized in a masters in sustainable design class offered by the University of South Australia.

Social and Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1993.

Discusses the history of settler control for Indigenous education and how local Native communities now design and institute culturally appropriate curricula for their youth in the educational system.