Literacy & Numeracy

Information Management Thesis (M.I.S.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2013.

Examines four research questions as possible priorities in the pan-Canadian research program. Presented at the first Pan-Canadian Education Research Agenda (PCERA) Symposium held in 1999.

Canadian Studies and Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2003.

Critically reviews a project which had two key objectives: to better link the community to local Indigenous information and to deliver improved services to local Indigenous communities.

Update to 2001. Discusses determinants of health, pregnancy, infants and children, diseases and injuries, physical environment and health services. Related material: The Health and Well-being of Aboriginal People in British Columbia (First Report).

Describes how researchers incorporated the concept of Wâhkôhtowin, which means kinship or the state of being and is fundamental for understanding Indigenous culture, into their research project comparing Indigenous and non-Indigenous literacy learning.

Focuses on the organization's leadership in issues of concern to women and the materials it produces for public education purposes. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to p. 16.

Project to combat illiteracy among adults residing in Toronto and methods used to address it.

Reports on results of survey of 10,000 participants in reading assessment and 10,300 in mathematics assessment. Compares results to National Indian Education Study for 2005. See Part II - The Educational Experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native Students in Grades 4 and 8: Statistical Analysis Report.

Informatics and Media Thesis (MSocSc)--Uppsala Universitet, 2011

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Prince Edward Island, 2013.

Authors discuss ways to teach land-based or place-based literacies and how doing so can expose settler-colonial narrative and disrupt them.

Looks at ways to improve language, literacy, and quality of life for young Aboriginal children.

Canadian Studies and Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Trent University, 2005.

Looks at the research in eight domains that influence Aboriginal learning outcomes; the implications for policy in each of these domains; and examines a set of ten policy recommendations to strengthen the success of Aboriginal learners across the system.

Looks at the National Aboriginal Design Committee's (NADC) role in establishing a national organization to address issues raised in the report Knowledge Matters.

Methodists and Ojibwa cooperatively developed a system, which included bilingual instruction, some Ojibwa teachers and the Pestalozzi teaching method that seemed more suitable for the learning styles.

Results of survey conducted to compile information on what core and administrative competencies are needed by Aboriginal literacy workers, and how skills are acquired and recognized.

Looks at literacy and educational strategies, teaching literacy to Aboriginal learners and indigenizing the educational process.

Objectives were to identify training needs of Aboriginal literacy workers, provide manual for evaluating skills, abilities and knowledge needed to qualify for funding from the Literacy and Basic Skills program and develop a job description.

Discusses the importance of pretend play for the overall development of the child as well as encouraging emergent literacy.

Discusses the meaning of literacy and makes recommendations for implementing programs suited to Aboriginal adult learners.

Looks at successful co-leadership between school principals and Indigenous community leaders in Northern Queensland to teach reading using a PALLIC framework.

Humanities Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 2010.

Talks about literacy programs developed for FNMI students in the Grasslands Regional Division No. 6 ,Lethbridge School District No. 51 and Pincher Creek.

Topics include: school improvement; literacy, mathematics, and science; language and culture; behavioural and social-emotional interventions; and parent, family, and community involvement.

Recommends seven key elements and guiding principles for strategy to improve literacy development among young Indigenous children.

Discussion on English dialect differences and culturally relevant assessment and intervention practices for Aboriginal communities.

Looks at various reasons for illiteracy and programs to help improve literacy for youth and adults. Article found by scrolling to page 16.

Looks at the value of cultural knowledge as a resource for enhancing intellectual development in all students.

Looks at research to promote the whole person approach to literacy, literacy learners, and innovative techniques.

[Education, Health and Human Development] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Canterbury, 2007.

Comparison of reading levels to grade levels in New Mexico high schools.

Literature review reveals that students are not developing cognitive academic language skills to be successful and recommends processes for transitioning from reservation English.

A resource for teacher and supplement to Research Into Practice: An Overview of Reading Research for Washington State. Looks at facets of education influenced by parents and teachers not policymakers.

Author reflects on the frustrations and joys of teaching composition at a tribal college.

Study identifies the literacy experiences of successful Native American University students as information for the teaching practices of high school teachers.

Leadership and Training Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2001.

Comments on the continued academic achievement disparities between mainstream Americans and ethnic minority groups despite the No Child Left Behind Act.

Provides lessons, containing ideas for connecting, processing and transforming, using First Nations literature.

Looks at project geared to the rapid improvement of reading achievement.

Explains that a Chilocco School (Bureau of Indian Affairs) employs a full-time reading teacher and teacher aide which results in better reading ability.

Analysis of the cultural work of the series with particular emphasis on the first three series, including interviews.

English Thesis (M.A.)--Lakehead University, 1999.

Indian and Northern Education Program Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1981.

Kinesiology and Recreation Management Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2009.