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Morrissette, Delonna – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2017
There will be many celebrations with the 150-year birthday that Canada will be celebrating this year. For First Nations Peoples, the celebration continues with the ability to take control of their own education. The Residential School legacy has left generational effects. Leaders across Canada are working together to infuse Aboriginal perspectives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, American Indian Education, Residential Schools
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Loewen, Patrick – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
The impact of Residential Schools on Indigenous People has left a long-lasting crippling effect on the subsequent generations of Indigenous youth. The resultant intergenerational loss of identity and self-value has cost the Indigenous People and their communities immensely. Aboriginal People based their education system on the real world around…
Descriptors: Residential Schools, Place Based Education, Land Use, Self Concept
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Frieze, Stephanie – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2014
There is a correlation between the Levels of student achievement in formal Western schools and the levels of involvement that their parents have in this education. Many First Nations students have low levels of achievement, which can be attributed to a lack of parental involvement. The negative perception of school left behind from residential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Parent Participation, Indigenous Populations
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White, Alana – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2015
The Indigenous people of Canada have endured great hardships and injustices in the past that have greatly affected them as a people and as individuals. For about a century, the young and innocent were taken from their homes and communities and placed in residential schools. The formal educational system of the past failed many students, harmed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives, Culturally Relevant Education
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Gregory, Deidre – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2013
Canada's Aboriginal people connect history to their loss of identity, grounded in Nation based languages and beliefs. Recovering from colonization requires healing wounds that festered during residential school and the 60's scoop. Treating family violence and addictions is more than an individual reality for many of today's Aboriginals. It is a…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Trauma, Psychological Patterns
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Maglione, Sherryl – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2013
As an Aboriginal educator, teaching Aboriginal students has, over time and very simply, become the author's focus, passion, and life's work. Her life's journey as an Aboriginal educator, through service to others, has been professionally and personally fulfilling, and is yet evolving. For instance, as her intertwined educational and life's journey…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives, Teacher Characteristics, Graduation Rate