Conditions on Canadian Native reserves are often blamed on a lack of education, the assumption being that education automatically leads to a better life. On the contrary, reserve conditions are partly due to assimilationist education. Successful Native education depends on both Native control and content based in Native culture. Contains 24…

A Canadian teacher-educator's research into what has meaning for Bush Cree students became a reciprocal learning-teaching relationship. What emerged is a reverence for the ordinary, and the researcher's realization that in Cree society, the medium and the message are one, just as education and culture are one. Contains photographs used in the…

Conversations with seven graduates of the Northern Teacher Education Program now teaching in northern Canada, explored family, school, and cultural factors that shaped their teacher role identities, and how these identities enable them to positively influence northern schools, students, and communities. A growing narrative of Aboriginal…

A survey of 30 first-semester postsecondary Inuit students from northern Quebec, living and studying in the Montreal area, found that a large majority were bicultural in cultural identity. Results support the bicultural and bilingual model practiced by the Kativik school board's dual mandate. Contains 35 references and the survey questionnaire.…

Anecdotes relate how a physical education teacher at a Canadian adolescent-treatment-center school with a high percentage of Native students developed a meaningful program by listening to, learning from, and working with her students. Contains 21 references. (TD)

Using a participatory-collaborative research design, nine Canadian-Native college students were interviewed to evaluate a two-week community-based course that uses Indigenous and Western knowledge systems to study environmental issues and impacts from Indigenous perspectives. Discusses issues in hands-on learning in First Nations communities,…

To determine if non-Native faculty could be effective role models in a Native Studies program, 58 students from two community colleges and one university were surveyed. Natives' and non-Natives' views on role models varied little. Personality, cultural knowledge, and diversity had a greater influence in role-model selection than did cultural…

Treatment programs for the growing problem of solvent abuse, in the form of sniffing gasoline, among Canadian-Native youth have had no success. Increased self-esteem, which is central to successful treatment, can only be achieved through programs designed by Native people and based on the their culture. Contains 32 references. (TD)

Through a story of experiences at a library and two museums, a Cree university student demonstrates how such institutions fail to adequately respect and portray Native culture, despite good intentions. (TD)

Describes some experiences of a female associate dean in a university faculty within the framework of a typology of power to reveal its changing nature. The typology contains five components of power: power over others; structural factors; power through others (facilitative power); power with others (empowerment); and personal power. (Author/MSE)

Argues that while the best method for measuring "value added" to skills (e.g., critical and communication skills) by the university experience is through longitudinal analyses using both subjective and objective measures of skills with appropriate control groups, a more feasible strategy used at York University (Ontario) compares the…

Presents an analysis of the epistemological, ethical, and pedagogical basis of UNESCO's recent proposals to verify their offer of an appropriate integrative framework for environmental education and other dimensions of contemporary education that aims to reconstruct the person-society-environment relationship web. (Author/CCM)

Claims that structural-adjustment programs, deregulation, and opening of markets may be good for international capital, but such processes increase inequalities, encourage people and countries to over-exploit natural resources, and contribute to reductions in spending on social and environmental welfare. (Author/CCM)

Agrees with the inputs of critical theory reviewed in light of a constructive postmodern thought that it gives an essential dimension to environmental education, that of a critical appraisal of the interrelated social, environmental, and educational aspects of phenomena and issues of our lives, in the perspective of personal and social…

A critique of planetary education for sustainable development and a restatement of some alternatives that compensate for the excess of such globalized education. (Author/CCM)