Media Representations of Policies Concerning Education Access and their Roles in Seven First Nations Students’ Deaths in Northern Ontario

• Published in: International Indigenous Policy Journal
• Main Authors: Gardam, Kevin, Giles, Audrey R
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2016
• Subjects: media; First Nations; education policy; death; northern Ontario; Education; Other Education; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Canada; Thunder Bay
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol7/iss1/1; https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2016.7.1.1

We employed postcolonial theory, a case study methodology, and critical discourse analysis to investigate the ways in which non-First Nations and First Nations news sources produced understandings of the role(s) that education policies may have played in the deaths of seven First Nations students in...