Indigenous teacher education as cultural brokerage: A university/First Nations partnership to prepare Nishnawbe Aski teachers
This paper studies a community-based Indigenous teacher educationprogram in Northwestern Ontario in Canada. This program, the resultof a partnership between the Northern Nishnawbe Education Counciland Brock University, was designed to prepare Nishnawbe Aski to teachthrough a Two Worlds Orientation:...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES)
2014
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| Online Access: | https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/IEJ/article/view/7441 |
| Summary: | This paper studies a community-based Indigenous teacher educationprogram in Northwestern Ontario in Canada. This program, the resultof a partnership between the Northern Nishnawbe Education Counciland Brock University, was designed to prepare Nishnawbe Aski to teachthrough a Two Worlds Orientation: unique Indigenous understandingscombined with Western educational principles. The programcharacteristics and structure are outlined. The strengths of the program,as identified by teacher candidates and teacher educators, are explored.Challenges to teacher candidate success are also considered. |
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