Teaching
Urgent Need for More Inuktitut Instruction in Nunavut Schools
Alternate Title
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Paul Berger
Description
Comments on the findings from interviews with 74 Inuit adults regarding what they like about schooling and what they would like to see change.
Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
Using Native American Legends to Teach Mathematics: Legends Retold by Students Participating in the Anishinabe Teachers for Anishinabe Children Project
Alternate Title
CGI [Cognitively Guided Instruction] Workshop
Web Sites » Organizations
Description
Website contains links to the workshop manual, information about the resource, individual Native American legends, and a teacher's guide. Stories were developed by 21 high school students who had an interest in teaching.
Utilising PEARL to Teach Indigenous Art History: A Canadian Example
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carmen Robertson
Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, vol. 41 , no. 1, Pearls not Problems: Transforming Pedagogy in Indigenous Australian Studies in the Context of Higher, August 2012, pp. 60-66
Description
Professor from the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, presents case study based on teaching a third-year course titled "Contemporary Aboriginal Art and Colonialism".
Variation in Instructional Discourse Features: Cultural or Linguistic? Evidence from Inuit and Non-Inuit Teachers of Nunavik
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Eriks-Brophy
Martha Crago
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, December 2003, pp. 396-419
Description
Argues that teachers' cultural values about communication and interaction affect their assessment of students' academic and communicative competence.
Visible Minorities: Deaf, Blind, and Special Needs Adult Native Literacy Access
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 27, no. 1, Advancing Aboriginal Language and Literacy, 2003, pp. 74-78
Description
Presentation delivered at an Aboriginal Literacy Symposium describing the challenges faced by an Indigenous person with hearing and visual impairment.
The Voice of Power and the Power of Voices: Teaching with Native American Literature
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marlinda White-Kaulaity
ALAN Review, vol. 34, no. 1, Fall, 2006, pp. 8-16
Description
Argues for a curriculum of inclusion rather than exclusion as demonstrated by incorporating Native American literature into the mainstream Language Arts programs.
Walking in Two Worlds: The Role of Drama in Creating Cross-Cultural Understanding and Student Engagement in School
Alternate Title
McDowell Foundation Research Project ; no. 185
Opening Up about Oppression Through Forum Theatre: Teacher's Guide
Teaching and Learning Research Exchange
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Melissa] Marley
[Carol] Fulton
McDowell Foundation Research Project
Description
Looks at a Grades 10-12 student drama project about living and going to school in a culturally mixed community. Included is a teachers guide with lesson plans.
Walking Together: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum
Web Sites » Governmental
Author/Creator
[Learn Alberta]
Description
Excellent teacher resource includes links to information and videos about the following topics: worldviews, oral traditions, Elders, culture and language, kinship, Aboriginal and treaty rights, healing historical trauma, symbolism and traditions, connection to land, Indigenous pedagogy, well-being, and traditional environmental knowledge.
Related material: Talking Together: A Discussion Guide.
Watch Out for the W/HOLE Student Multimedia Projects and Culturally Based Education
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tish Scott
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 43-57
Description
Discussion of a Culturally Based Education (CBE) program, which combined student technology and interviews of community members, presentations and meetings.
"Watch This Spot and Whose In It": Creating Space for Indigenous Educators?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Maringi Johnston
Australian Journal of Teacher Education, vol. 26, no. 1, 2001, pp. 1-8
Description
Argues that creating space involves more than simply allocating positions and places to those who identify as Indigenous. It also includes recognition of world-views and knowledge bases that are distinctly Indigenous.
A Way of Life: Indigenous Perspectives on Anti Oppressive Living
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robina Thomas [Qwul'sih'yah'maht]
Jacquie Green [Kundoque]
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 1, 2007, pp. 91-104
Description
Lists some key elements of the practice and uses the medicine wheel to examine the concept, noting that traditional teachings are anti-oppressive by their very nature.
Ways of Seeing and Responding to a School in Santee Sioux Country
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Aprille Phillips
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 58, no. 1/2, Spring/Summer, 2019, pp. 62-83
Description
Using the example of the Santee Community Schools on the Santee Sioux reservation to examine the failure of external interventions in addressing Indigenous educational needs.
"We Had Not Dared to Do That Earlier, But Now We See That It Works": Creating a Culturally Responsive Mathematics Exam
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Birgitte Fyhn
Ylva Jannok Nutti
Kristine Nystad
Ellen J. Sara Eira
Ole Einar Hoetta
AlterNative, vol. 12, no. 4, 2016, pp. 411-424
Description
Looks at innovative culturally responsive instructional tasks and the development of four states: survival, recovery, development and self-determination.
We Look More, Listen More, Notice More: Impact of Sustained Professional Development on Head Start Teachers' Inquiry-Based and Culturally-Relevant Science Teaching Practices
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gillian H. Roehrig
Mia Dubosarsky
Annie Mason
Stephan Carlson
Barbara Murphy
Journal of Science Education and Technology, vol. 20, Science Education in Preschools and Primary Schools: Classrooms, Teachers, and Children, October 2011, pp. 566-578
Description
"This article presents results from Ah Neen Dush, a sustained and transformative professional development program for Head Start teachers on an American Indian Reservation."
We're Not There Yet, Kemo Sabe: Positing a Future for American Indian Literary Studies
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Heath Justice
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2, Spring, 03 1, 2001, pp. 256-269
Description
Discusses issues surrounding the study and teaching of Indigenous Studies from a Native American perspective.
Weaving Ways: Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Classrooms and Schools: An Introductory Guide
Alternate Title
Education for Reconciliation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortium
Education for Reconciliation Team
Description
Provides a series of inquiry questions and guiding information organized around four themes: cultures of belonging, instructional design, pedagogy, and sharing through stories.
[Week 11: Indigenizing the University]
Alternate Title
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustin
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Eleanor Benard
Dan Christmas
Description
Discusses moving forward with education on all levels. Inspirational story by Eleanor Bernard about successful Indigenous controlled educational approaches.
Presentation begins at 21:40.
Duration: 2:42:25.
A Week on Badu Island: Planning and Reflecting on Real-life Situations in a Remote Context
Alternate Title
Early Years Curriculum Materials
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Queensland Government
Queensland Studies Authority
Description
Examines a week in a Preparatory class in a P to 8 setting where the teachers use a process based on two theoretical teaching philosophies.
Whakawātea Te Huarahi Whāia Te Mātauranga: Legitimising Space for Meaningful Academic Careers for Māori in Business Schools
Alternate Title
Whakawatea Te Huarahi Whaia Te Matauranga: Legitimising Space for Meaningful Academic Careers for Maori in Business Schools
Theses
Author/Creator
Nimbus Awhina Staniland
Description
Business, Law and Economics Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, 2017.
What Can We Learn From Traditional Aboriginal Education? Transforming Social Work Education Delivered in First Nations Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Harris
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 29, no. 1, 2006, pp. 117-134
Description
Discusses the importance of context for social work education, illustrated by the First Nations Bachelor of Social Work program, which was delivered as a satellite program in a First Nations community.
"What Comes After Newawl": When Generalization Disrupts Experience in Mathematics
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stavros Georgios Stavrou
M Shaun Murphy
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, 2020, pp. 121-131
Description
Discusses the difference between Indigenous and Western education based on personal experiences of the learner.