Developing Native School Boards: Facilitators and Impediments.

Isherwood, Geoffrey B.

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ERIC Number: EJ547998

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Publication Date: 1997

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Developing Native School Boards: Facilitators and Impediments.

Isherwood, Geoffrey B.

Education Canada, v37 n2 p22-27 Sum 1997

Effective strategies for assisting Canadian Native communities to develop school boards included encouraging an unhurried adaptive learning process, providing guidance to achieve consensus, and allowing for an incubation period. Impediments to development included community members' avoidance of leadership roles, cross-cultural misunderstandings, prejudice and discrimination among Native people, and the quest for power by a few Native people. (LP)

Descriptors: American Indian Education, Boards of Education, Canada Natives, Change Strategies, Community Control, Cultural Differences, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Politics of Education, Social Bias, Tribally Controlled Education

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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