"There Is No Way to Prepare for This": Teaching in First Nations Schools in Northern Ontario—Issues and Concerns
This article reports on a qualitative study of 10female teachers working in two First Nationsfly-in communities in northern Ontario. The issues or concerns of these teachers are grouped into five themes: (a) pedagogical goals and purposes; (b) relation ship to the community; (c) living in the North...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/195891 2023-05-15T16:15:27+02:00 "There Is No Way to Prepare for This": Teaching in First Nations Schools in Northern Ontario—Issues and Concerns Harper, Helen 2021-10-21 application/pdf http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195891 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v24i2.195891 eng eng UBC Faculty of Education http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195891/191811 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195891 doi:10.14288/cjne.v24i2.195891 Copyright (c) 2021 Canadian Journal of Native Education Canadian Journal of Native Education; Vol. 24 No. 2 (2000) 0710-1481 10.14288/cjne.v24i2 Northern Ontario info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2021 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v24i2.195891 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v24i2 2023-01-04T07:51:04Z This article reports on a qualitative study of 10female teachers working in two First Nationsfly-in communities in northern Ontario. The issues or concerns of these teachers are grouped into five themes: (a) pedagogical goals and purposes; (b) relation ship to the community; (c) living in the North; (d) teaching in the North; and (e) teacher education. The findings suggest that more intensive preservice and inservice teacher education programs that focus on the relationship of teachers to First Nations communities and to cross-cultural and multicultural teaching with particular reference to the teaching of English as a second language are needed to prepare educators better for work in the North. The article concludes with a series of questions intended to provoke further discussion of and more critical planning for, the professional development of teachers employed in remote northern communities. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) |
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This article reports on a qualitative study of 10female teachers working in two First Nationsfly-in communities in northern Ontario. The issues or concerns of these teachers are grouped into five themes: (a) pedagogical goals and purposes; (b) relation ship to the community; (c) living in the North; (d) teaching in the North; and (e) teacher education. The findings suggest that more intensive preservice and inservice teacher education programs that focus on the relationship of teachers to First Nations communities and to cross-cultural and multicultural teaching with particular reference to the teaching of English as a second language are needed to prepare educators better for work in the North. The article concludes with a series of questions intended to provoke further discussion of and more critical planning for, the professional development of teachers employed in remote northern communities. |
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"There Is No Way to Prepare for This": Teaching in First Nations Schools in Northern Ontario—Issues and Concerns |
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