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Peer reviewedDavis, Sydney – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1986
Discusses goals of parent involvement and suggests effective strategies to involve parents and school officials in the education of Indian and Metis children. Covers current avenues for parent participation that schools provide as well as recent reform-oriented approaches that originate with native groups. (JHZ)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Community Control, Elementary Secondary Education
Hoiland, Esther; And Others – 1976
The current directions of elementary school programs for American Indian children are varied, dynamic, demanding and, often, experimental. This booklet presents the trends and expectations of programs offered both in federal and provincial schools attended by Indian and Inuit children in Canada. A brief look at the educational experiences of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Canada Natives, Community Control, Curriculum
Peer reviewedRichardson, D. Theophilus; Richardson, Zena A. C. – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1986
Discusses changes in education of Indian children in Alberta and Canada resulting from mobilization of Indian parents against integration of Indian children into public school systems. Changes include Indian control of local schools and parent involvement in school policies. Points out benefits of parent participation to schools, parents, and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Change Agents, Community Action
PDF pending restorationBinda, K. P.; Nicol, D. G. – 1999
More than a century of centralized government and church control of Aboriginal education in Canada, aimed primarily at cultural assimilation, resulted in injustices, widespread inequalities, and underdevelopment. In the 1970s, after much political wrangling, the Canadian federal government and the First Nations agreed upon a policy of Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, Canada Natives, Community Control
Jimenez, Emmanuel; Sawada, Yasuyuki – 1998
This paper measures the effects on student outcomes of decentralizing educational responsibility to communities and schools. In El Salvador, community-managed schools emerged during the 1980s when public schools could not be extended to rural areas because of the country's civil war. In 1991, El Salvador's Ministry of Education decided to draw on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Community Control, Decentralization
Download full textWhite, J. Ross – 1983
This paper presents the major findings from a survey on parent participation in decision-making that was distributed to school administrators, trustees, and a random selection of teachers and parents at School District #68 in Nanaimo, British Columbia. The study was designed to explore means of facilitating partnership between parents and schools…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Control, Community Cooperation, Community Surveys
