First Nations Education Policy in Canada

by Paquette, Jerry; Fallon, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9781442610729
• ISBN10: 1442610727
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-31
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Offering a sorely needed fresh perspective on an issue vital to the community, First Nations Education Policy in Canada is grounds for critical reflection not only on education but on the future of Aboriginal self-determination.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Prologue: Historic Context	p. 3
Moving beyond 'Structural Failure': Seeking Legal Remedies or Looking Forward	p. 16
Framing First Nations Education within Self-Government and Self-Determination	p. 20
A 'Place to Stand'	p. 21
A Word on Scope and Choosing	p. 23
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Analysing Aboriginal Education	p. 24
Paradigm Base: Purpose, Paradigm, and Policy	p. 24
Social Theory Base: Pluralism in Three Dimensions	p. 39
Political Rights Theory: Liberal Democratic Theory's Failure in Responding to Aboriginal Self-Determination	p. 53
From Concept to Vision and Practice	p. 68
Policy Context: Competing Discourses and Evolution of the Policy Context of First Nations Education	p. 70
A People in Receivership - of Treaties, Reserves, Colonization, and 'Devolution'	p. 70
Devolution Debacle: Squaring Implementation Circles	p. 79
Aggregating for Service Delivery: Promises and Problems	p. 89
The First Nations Education Resource Conundrum: Evolving Funding Policies in the Context of Diseconomies of Scale and Fragmentation	p. 94
Post-Secondary Education	p. 124
Federally Chartered Institutions?	p. 127
Post-Secondary Funding	p. 128
Theoretical Underpinnings	p. 128
The Current State of Funding	p. 133
The Treaty Right Rationale	p. 140
The 'Inherent Right' Rationale	p. 144
RCAP's Approach to Post-Secondary Education and Funding	p. 157
Funding of Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education within Relational Pluralist Assumptions	p. 161
Up the Down Staircase in Two Dimensions: Local, Regional, National Control and Jurisdiction	p. 168
The Current State of Provincial and First Nations School Governance	p. 169
Provincial School Jurisdiction and Control	p. 169
First Nations School Jurisdiction and Control	p. 174
Disconnected Layers of Governance I: INAC and First Nations	p. 180
Disconnected Layers of Governance II: First Nations Aggregation	p. 183
First Nations (Education) Organizations: Local, Regional, and National	p. 185
Education and Self-Government Agreements Currently in Effect	p. 188
Some Pervasive Policy Issues	p. 196
Breaking the Gridlock: Challenges and Options	p. 200
The Demographic Challenge	p. 200
Connecting Severed Layers of Accountability - Why Accountable, Transparent, Ethical, and Adequately Resourced First Nations Jurisdiction Matters	p. 205
Disconnected Layers of Accountability	p. 206
Accountability, Ethics, and Adequate Resourcing	p. 214
Control and Aggregation	p. 215
Key First Nations Taxation Issues	p. 218
Special Education	p. 228
Mould-Breaking Aboriginal Schools	p. 231
Overarching Lessons from SAEE Case Studies and Amiskwaciy Academy	p. 233
First Nations School Boards - or School Boards by Another Name	p. 237
Services, Functions, and Responsibilities Pertaining to the Board as a Whole	p. 239
Services, Functions, and Responsibilities of Mutual Importance to Individual First Nations and the Board as a Whole	p. 241
'Supra-Board' Services and Connections	p. 245
Regional and National First Nations Aggregate Organizations	p. 246
Cultural Centres	p. 259
Enduring Problems and Worsening Paradoxes in Native-as-a-First-Language Education	p. 261
Elders Are Precious Links to the Past, Not Miracle Workers	p. 265
Urban Aboriginal Education Revisited	p. 267
Values, Principles, and Ethics, as sine qua non	p. 272
The Nature and Importance of Ethics	p. 275
Ethics and Moral Objectivity	p. 276
Challenges to Ethical Activity in Organizations	p. 285
The 'White Guilt' Paradox: Empowerment and Responsibility or Perpetual 'Fiduciary' Victimhood and Tutelage?	p. 289
The First Nations University of Canada: Colliding Visions - National University or Local Fiefdom?	p. 299
Ethical Governance and Leadership	p. 311
Ethics and 'Kymlicka's Constraint' in the Canadian Sittlich Context	p. 314
Vision and Purpose: A Second sine qua non	p. 321
Myopia: The Self-Serve Vision - Aboriginal/First Nations Education as Local Fiefdom and Cash Cow	p. 323
Le beau risque: Functional National Integration	p. 326
A Plausible Vision	p. 328
Education within Relational Pluralist Assumptions	p. 330
Parity - Not Exact Equivalence	p. 337
One More Time - How Important Is Language and How Important Are Schools to Its Survival?	p. 338
Results-Based Management for Aboriginal Education: 'By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them'	p. 340
Whose Education, Whose Resoruces?	p. 353
Time to Think Outside the Box and to Begin Getting Out of It	p. 354
Notes	p. 371
References	p. 385
Index	p. 401
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