Supporting First Nations Secondary Students Studying Away From Home: A Case History of Policy Gone Awry
In 2003, the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council (NNEC) invited proposals for a review of its support services for the secondary students that it sponsors. The author was the successful bidder on that contract and this is the story of the lessons that emerged from that work first in regard to educa...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/jcs.41.2.88 2023-12-31T10:06:53+01:00 Supporting First Nations Secondary Students Studying Away From Home: A Case History of Policy Gone Awry Paquette, Jerald 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs.41.2.88 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jcs.41.2.88 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Journal of Canadian Studies volume 41, issue 2, page 88-111 ISSN 0021-9495 1911-0251 History Cultural Studies journal-article 2007 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/jcs.41.2.88 2023-12-01T08:18:04Z In 2003, the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council (NNEC) invited proposals for a review of its support services for the secondary students that it sponsors. The author was the successful bidder on that contract and this is the story of the lessons that emerged from that work first in regard to educational policy in general and then in regard to First Nations education in particular. The single most important lesson for the larger world of educational policy, a literature replete with stories of implementation failure, is to “be careful what you wish for, because, against all odds, you just might get it!” Among the more important lessons for the Aboriginal and First Nations educational community are the dangers associated with preferential hiring policies that place unqualified people in professionally very demanding student-support and administrative roles, all the more so when the people in question, although ethnically and “racially” as well as legally “Indian,” lack any ties to the communities they serve. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Journal of Canadian Studies 41 2 88 111 |
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In 2003, the Northern Nishnawbe Education Council (NNEC) invited proposals for a review of its support services for the secondary students that it sponsors. The author was the successful bidder on that contract and this is the story of the lessons that emerged from that work first in regard to educational policy in general and then in regard to First Nations education in particular. The single most important lesson for the larger world of educational policy, a literature replete with stories of implementation failure, is to “be careful what you wish for, because, against all odds, you just might get it!” Among the more important lessons for the Aboriginal and First Nations educational community are the dangers associated with preferential hiring policies that place unqualified people in professionally very demanding student-support and administrative roles, all the more so when the people in question, although ethnically and “racially” as well as legally “Indian,” lack any ties to the communities they serve. |
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