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Publication Date: 2020
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Understanding Roles and Relationships: Teachers' Work in a Northern Ontario Remote First Nations Community
Burleigh, Dawn
Canadian Journal of Education, v43 n3 p689-714 2020
This article explores how teachers negotiate their roles and relationships in a Northern Ontario First Nations community. Through a case study approach, utilizing interviews and focus groups with 15 participants, I constructed four categories: (1) pedestal people, (2) educational transitioners, (3) relationship builders, and (4) community integrators, for the purpose of explaining the ways in which teachers navigate their roles and relationships in the community and the implications for their work as teachers. I argue that community integrators embody an understanding of Indigenous approaches, centralized in relational knowing and being, and model a practice most efficacious for Indigenous student success.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, American Indian Education, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Attitude Change, Educational Improvement, Culturally Relevant Education, Community Involvement, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education; Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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