{"id":2281,"date":"2012-11-25T15:17:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T22:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2012-11-25T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T22:17:19","slug":"hope-or-heartbreak-aboriginal-youth-and-canadas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/2012\/11\/25\/hope-or-heartbreak-aboriginal-youth-and-canadas-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope or Heartbreak: Aboriginal Youth and Canada\u2019s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"www.horizons.gc.ca\/doclib\/Horizons_Vol10Num1_final_e.pdf\">Horizons: Policy Research Initiative (March, 2008) titled Hope or Heartbreak: Aboriginal Youth and Canada\u2019s Future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This document contains multiple articles pertaining to issues facing Aboriginal youth.\u00a0 I was particularly interested in Castellano\u2019s article titled, \u201cReflections on Identity and Empowerment.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Castellano discusses the foundation (and policy) necessary for Aborginal youth to be empowered, connect to their community, and find academic and personal success in Canadian society.\u00a0 The article highlights Aboriginal youth historical and current resiliency, and provides information on how to support youth and acknowledge their experiences. \u00a0\u00a0Aboriginal youth have a promising future, however the author indicates government and educational policy will need to be created and implemented to support youth.<\/p>\n<p>Castellano, M.\u00a0 (2008).\u00a0 Reflections on identity and empowerment: Recurring themes in the\u00a0discourse on and with aboriginal youth. \u00a0Horizons: Policy Research Initiative, 10(1), p.\u00a0\u00a0 7-12.\u00a0 Retrieved from <em><cite>www.horizons.gc.ca\/doclib\/Horizons_Vol10Num1_final_e.pdf<\/cite><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Camille<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horizons: Policy Research Initiative (March, 2008) titled Hope or Heartbreak: Aboriginal Youth and Canada\u2019s Future This document contains multiple articles pertaining to issues facing Aboriginal youth.\u00a0 I was particularly interested in Castellano\u2019s article titled, \u201cReflections on Identity and Empowerment.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Castellano discusses the foundation (and policy) necessary for Aborginal youth to be empowered, connect to their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[233,891],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-4","tag-education","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}