First Nations education policy in Canada
Subtitle: progress or gridlock?
By: Jerry Paquette and Gérald Fallon
Contributors: Fallon, Gérald
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781442641532; 9781442610729
Subjects: Education; Autochtones; Indians of North America; Éducation; Native peoples; Education and state
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. [385]-399.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : historic context. Moving beyond "structural failure" : seeking legal remedies or looking forward; title: Framing First Nations education within self-government and self-determination. A "place to stand"; title: Policy context : competing discourses and evolution of the policy context of First Nations education. A people in receivership : of treaties, reserves, colonization, and "devolution" ; Devolution debacle : squaring implementation circles ; The First Nations education resource conundrum : evolving funding policies in the context of diseconomies of scale and fragmentation; title: Post-secondary education. Federally chartered institutions? ; Post-secondary funding ; RCAP's approach to post-secondary education and funding ; Funding of Aboriginal post-secondary education within relational pluralist assumptions; title: Up the down staircase in two dimensions : local, regional, national control and jurisdiction. The current state of provincial and First Nations school ; Disconnected layers governance I : INAC and First Nations ; Disconnected layers of governance II : First Nations aggregation ; First Nations (education) organizations : local, regional, and national ; Education and self-government agreements currently in effect ; Some pervasive policy issues; title: Breaking the gridlock: challenges and options. The demographic challenge ; Connecting severed layers of accountability : why accountable, transparent, ethical, and adequately resourced First Nations jurisdiction matters ; Control and aggregation ; Key First Nations taxation issues ; Special education ; Mould-breaking Aboriginal schools ; Overarching lessons from SAEE case studies and Amiskwaciy Academy ; First Nations school boards : or school boards by another name ; Regional and national First Nations aggregate organizations cultural centres ; Enduring problems and worsening paradoxes in native-as-first-language education ; Elders are precious links to the past, not miracle workers ; Urban Aboriginal education revisited; title: Values, principles, and ethics, as sine qua non. The nature and importance of ethics ; Ethics and moral objectivity ; Challenges to ethical activity in organizations ; The "white guilt" paradox : empowerment and responsibility or perpetual "fiduciary" victimhood and tutelage? ; The First Nations University of Canada : colliding visions : national university or local fiefdom? ; ethical governance and leadership ; Ethics and "Kymlicka's constraint" in the Canadian Sittlich context; title: Vision and purpose : a second sine qua non. Myopia : the self-serve vision : Aboriginal/First Nations education as local fiefdom and cash cow ; Le beau risque : functional national integration ; A plausible vision ; Time to think outside the box and to begin getting out of it.