- Myths and Realities of First Nations Education
Resources available: Current structure of education on reserve, the graduation rate gap between first nation schools and typical high schools
Links to the site: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/myths-and-realities-of-first-nations-education.pdf
Usefulness for research on Indigenous knowledge: useful to get a general picture of how on-reserve education works
Media: Fraser Institute
Community reality: The article represents Fraser Institute’s standing for government funding for on-reserve education. In short, the institute points out that although some on-reserve educational institutions have been getting abundant funding from federal and provincial governments, the outcomes are not promising. In particular, graduation rate of on-reserve schools are only half of normal ones.
- First Nations Education Steering Committee
Resources available: first people’s principle of learning, integrate indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into classroom etc.
Links to the site: http://www.fnesc.ca/learningfirstpeoples/
Usefulness for research on Indigenous knowledge: useful to get insights on teaching first people particular courses (i.e. strategy to teach a math course to first people)
Media: First Nations Education Steering Committee
Community reality: This website provides technical insights on how to converge two pedagogies in one classroom. By providing insights on indigenous knowledge, this website serves as a bridge for non-first-nations people.
- First Nations Pedagogy
Resources available: Social learning, First-nation learning theories
Links to the site: https://firstnationspedagogy.com/index.html
Usefulness for research on Indigenous knowledge: get a sense of first nation culture and how it affects learning
Media: First Nations Pedagogy
Community reality: This website provides insights on first nations cultures, social structures and learning activities. Browsing the site can help me form a better understanding of first people.
- Aboriginal Education in Burnaby Schools
Resources available: Burnaby School Board’s Aboriginal Education Year in Review and other resources
Links to the site: http://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/aboriginaleducation/
Usefulness for research on Indigenous knowledge: get a sense of how current school board are working to achieve diversity in education
Media: Burnaby School Board
Community reality: This website provides insights on how Burnaby schools board works to achieve diversity in their districts. The website is a very good representation of how current education system works to promote indigenous knowledge with state-of-the-art educational technologies.
- Aboriginal Education in BCTF
Resources available: current aboriginal education program and news in the field
Links to the site: https://bctf.ca/AboriginalEducation.aspx
Usefulness for research on Indigenous knowledge: get a sense of how BC teacher’s Federation is working to achieve diversity in education
Media: Burnaby School Board
Community reality: This website provides insights on how BC Teacher’s Federation is working to create diversity in education.