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
