Retention & Recruitment

Examines issues and recommendations to post-secondary education for Aboriginal students.

Looks at the specific goals of the program including improving attendance and graduation rates of Aboriginal students.

Looks at barriers faced by Aboriginal students trying to acquire post-secondary education and move into the skilled labour force. Study consisted of interviews/focus groups in three case study communities located in Atlantic Canada, a literature search, and identification of promising practices.

Examines the concept of Aboriginal education as seen by four urban, inner-city elementary school principals and how they see it being put into practice in their schools.

Discusses aspects of the program such as recruitment, placement, profiles of participants and outcomes. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.

Explores some of the barriers to increasing the number of Indigenous Instructors in medical schools in Canada, including: hiring biases, a desire on the part of doctors to remain working in underserved communities, and a fear of ongoing discrimination.

Introductory article to this themed issue discusses how tribal colleges and universities aim to preserve and communicate traditional native culture, provide higher education and career or technical opportunities to tribal members, enhance economic opportunities within the reservation community, and promote tribal self-determination.

Addresses the causes and implications of, and possible solutions to, the "education gap" between Aboriginal people and the general population in Canada. The paper highlights Joe Duquette High School and Princess Alexandria Community School, which are located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Excerpt from Report on the Pan-Canadian Education Research Agenda Symposium.

Website provides access to a variety of educational resources and projects which support improved education from elementary to secondary school levels for Aboriginal students.

Study surveyed seven teachers from the Great Plains Technical College in an effort to see if their attitudes might influence the high retention rate at the institution.

Compares 3 approaches to mathematics lessons and the impact on practice and achievement.

Compares the No Child Left Behind program initiated in the United States in 2001 and Canada's First Nations Student Success Program (FNSSP) introduced in 2009.

Student findings were significantly different from national norms as well as their non Native teachers.

Argues that Indigenous identity should be included in education data about learning outcomes.

Argues that there is a need for a new method of measuring student retention rates at tribal colleges, due to the unique nature of the students who attend and their personal objectives or goals.

Discusses need for Indigenous nurses and the issues faced by them in undergraduate courses and proposes changes to training of non-Indigenous nurses.

Study considered both nature and nurture variables, including interactions between the two which could impact school performance.

Tracks the rates of suicide among B.C.'s First Nations youth for each of British Columbia's more than 200 separate bands and 27 band councils for close to 20 years.

Examines mentoring from a multi-dimensional perspective, with those dimensions encompassing the generational history, family belief system, cultural archetypes, individual learning style, and physical challenges.

Focuses on three programs: Second Chance, a program for Aboriginal offenders which used Creative Problem Solving, Northern Lights project in three rural Manitoba school districts which used the Lost Prizes program, and the Mentoring At-Risk-Students Project which dealt with inner-city Aboriginal children and youth. Excerpt from Mentoring for Talent Development.

Video of panel discussion which took place at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Duration: 01:36:31.

Lists schools and district support recommendations, culturally responsive teaching strategies for the classroom, and state and national programs and initiatives.

Outcomes and recommendations from a review to address issues such as educational attainment and unemployment.

Purpose of review was to gather and synthesize information, identify current promising practices, and provide recommendations for future development.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2015.

Overview of project to determine if additional services to high school students could assist grades 10 to 12 stay in school and meet graduation requirements. Involved 277 Aboriginal students at six sites across Manitoba. Map of Community Involvement.

Comments on unique aspects of the research study, Building Healthy Mi'kmaq Communities in Prince Edward Island, which focused on the determinants of health, with education considered a strong social determinant.

Discusses facilitating and assisting the jurisdiction of education for the Mi'kmaw Nation communities.

Provides insight into the education and training needs of the mining industry, as well as information on jobs and career opportunities.

Educational Administration and Higher Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1998.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Minnesota, 2009.

Educational Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

[Education] Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Montana, 2011.

Study uses combined data from the 1996 Census and Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Education Survey for 1995/1996 to assess five categories of variables which impact educational success: isolation, school type, demographic, economic and human capital.

Looks at the educational disconnect for northern Aboriginal youth in the context of factors associated with resource rich areas.

Educational Policy Studies and Practice (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2015.

Tracks the achievement gap and provides information on student numbers.

Distance Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Institute and University, 2004.

Overview of the sixth World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE) held in Morley, Alberta including the bidding process.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.43.

Looks at reasons for under achievement, how learning styles affect motivation, the role of cultural systems of knowledge and of teachers.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Manitoba, 2007.

Primary focus of discussions was the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education's document Proposed Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education Strategy and its Aboriginal post-secondary Enhancement Plans.

Using Indigenous wholistic framework, analyzes responses gathered from faculty, student affairs staff, administrators, advisory committee members, Elders and Aboriginal students at three universities.

Higher Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2003.