Introduction

Eastern Door: Reconceptualizing First Nations Education

1 Towards a Redefinition of Indian Education

2 Peacekeeping Actions at Home: A Medicine Wheel Model for a Peacekeeping Pedagogy

3 Redefining Science Education for Aboriginal Students

Southern Door: Connecting with and Maintaining Our Relations

4 Aboriginal Epistemology

5 Quaslametko and Yetko: Two Grandmother Models for Contemporary Native Education Pedagogy

6 Language and Cultural Content in Native Education

7 Learning Processes and Teaching Roles in Native Education: Cultural Base and Cultural Brokerage

Western Door: Meeting the Challenge of Incoherence

8 A Major Challenge for the Education System: Aboriginal Retention and Dropout

9 Teacher Education and Aboriginal Opposition

10 The Challenge for Universities

11 Non-Native Teachers Teaching in Native Communities

Northern Door: Transforming First Nations Education

12 Treaties and Indian Education

13 Taking Control: Contradiction and First Nations Adult Education

14 Locally Developed Native Studies Curriculum: An Historical and Philosophical Rationale

15 The Sacred Circle: An Aboriginal Approach to Healing Education at an Urban High School

Bibliography of First Nations Pedagogy

Contributors

Index