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Building bridges in indigenizing education: digital narratives as a means of shifting non-Indigenous teacher horizons towards relationality
(2015-06-15)
This thesis was developed in response to the pressing need to find methods for non-Indigenous
teachers to actively teach for Indigenous student resilience, and to center Indigenous students and
their families in an ...
In through the outdoors: exploring the role of facilitated wilderness experiences in shaping my understanding of self and my relations with other people and the other-than-human world
(2014-12-11)
I examine the role of facilitated wilderness experiences in shaping my understanding of self in relation to people and the other-than-human world through a critical qualitative approach using auto-ethnography to engage ...
Whiteness and land in Indigenous education in Canadian teacher education
(2018)
After decades of advocacy by Indigenous scholars and communities, Indigenous education in Canadian teacher education is gaining support and status. Throughout Canadian teacher education, the ‘common knowledge’ of pre-service ...
Indigenizing Environmental Education: How can Land-Based Practices become an Educational Journey of Reconciliation?
(2015)
Environmental education today centres on the protection and conservation of land for settler-Canadians. This research explores how including an Indigenous perspective of Land into environmental education can aid non-Indigenous ...
Outward bound Giwaykiwin: wilderness-based Indigenous education
(2008)
This study takes a critical approach to Outward Bound Canada's Giwaykiwin program
through a lens of decolonizing Indigenous education. The worldwide organization of
Outward Bound, and assumptions about the universal ...
Support for, and success of, Indigenous students in access programs at four Canadian universities: educators’ perspectives and practices
(2020)
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada’s recent report on Indigenous Post-
Secondary Education reported that 10% of Indigenous peoples in Canada hold a
university degree, compared to 26% of non-Indigenous people. Yet, ...
Niizhaaweynima-nimama (Mother Earth Song)
(2020)
This study investigates factors that have contributed to other Indigenous Peoples’
successes at the post-secondary level in graduate studies by interviewing Indigenous People that
have gone through the system and have ...
Crossing the divide: supporting students and families relocating from remote First Nations communities to urban centres
(2020)
This research explores the experiences of First Nations students and families when they
relocate from their homes in remote First Nations communities to an urban centre. The research
considers student, family and school ...