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Approaches to Aboriginal education in Canada : searching for solutions / Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard, editors.

Howard, Albert, (editor.). Widdowson, Frances, 1966- (editor.).

Summary:

"This timely publication brings diverse perspectives on aboriginal education together in one volume, providing readers a context with which to understand and consider them. These approaches are juxtaposed to encourage critical analysis of the different assumptions underlying proposals for improving aboriginal education.

There are two general categories of perspectives explored in the book, parallelist and integrationist approaches. Nine essays are provided as examples of parallelist thinking. They all argue, to varying degrees, that aboriginal autonomy and control over education, as well as the revitalization of aboriginal traditions, is necessary for aboriginal education to be improved. Integrationist approaches, on the other hand, assume that solutions to aboriginal problems lie in facilitating native participation in the Canadian educational system and workforce. These approaches, represented by nine articles, are informed by both liberalism and political economy.

The book concludes with two dialogues between parallelist and integrationist approaches. These exchanges are intended to uncover how the different approaches respond to arguments and assumptions that are oppositional to their own. The book ends with a rebuttal from a parallelist perspective. As parallelism is the dominant approach being articulated with respect to aboriginal education policy, it is important that this perspective be given the last word."--pub. desc.

Record details

ISBN: 9781550594560
ISBN: 1550594567
Physical Description: xxix, 424 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:march.14
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Retrospective and a Prospective -- 2. Silencing Aboriginal Curricular Content and Perspectives Through Multiculturalism: "There are Other Children Here" / Verna J. Kirkness -- 3. Closing the Education Gap: A Case for Aboriginal Early Childhood Education in Canada, a Look at the Aboriginal Head Start Program / Verna St. Denis -- 4. Canadian Native Students and Inequitable Learning / Mai Nguyen -- 5. Making Science Assessment Culturally Valid for Aboriginal Students / Wayne Gorman -- 6. New Deal / John B. Friesen / Anthony N. Ezeife -- 7. Connections and Reconnections: Affirming Cultural Identity in Aboriginal Teacher Education / Blair Stonechild -- 8. Schools Matter / Linda Goulet / Yvonne McLeod -- 9. New Approach to Understanding Aboriginal Educational Outcomes: The Role of Social Capital / John Richards -- 10. Why We Need a First Nations Education Act / Paul Maxim / Jerry White / Nicholas Spence -- 11. Free to Learn: Giving Aboriginal Youth Control over Their Post-Secondary Education / Michael Mendelson -- 12. Retention of Aboriginal Students in Post-Secondary Education / Dave Snow / Calvin Helin -- 13. Aboriginalism and the Problems of Indigenous' Archaeology / Judy Hordes -- 14. Running the Gauntlet: Challenging the Taboo Obstructing Aboriginal Education Policy Development / Robert McGhee -- 15. Unintended Outcomes of Institutionalizing Ethnicity: Lessons from Maori Education in New Zealand / Frances Widdowson / Albert Howard -- 16. Native Studies and Canadian Political Science: The Implications of "Decolonizing the Discipline" / Elizabeth Rata -- 17. First Nations Education and Rentier Economics: Parallels with the Gulf States / Frances Widdowson -- 18. First Nations Education and Minnis's Rentier Mentality / John R. Minnis -- 19. Ganigonhi:oh: The Good Mind Meets the Academy / Frank Deer -- 20. "Good Mind" and Critical Thinking: A Response to David Newhouse / David Newhouse -- 21. Paths to Truths / Frances Widdowson.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic formats.