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Matawa Learning Centre

The Matawa Learning Centre uses a holistic approach to education in order to help young Indigenous learners from the Matawa Communities in Northern Ontario.

Janine Landry speaks with Brad Battiston (Principal) & Jackie Corbett (Vice-Principal) of the Matawa Learning Centre The Matawa Learning Centre uses a holistic approach to education in order to help young Indigenous learners from the Matawa Communities in Northern Ontario. The program has educators that help students achieve graduation as well as cultural support, mental health workers, nutrition workers, physical activity coordinators, and around the clock workers to help support the youth in a wrap-around approach that centres the learner’s well-being.

Dene Nahjo

Fostering indigenous leadership, values and skills through cultural initiatives. Dene Nahjo is a Dene Collective based in Denendeh. Fostering indigenous leadership, values, and skills through cultural resurgance initiatives. Dene Nahjo believes the solutions to problems we see in communities are rooted in the teachings of our ancestors. They emphasize and encourage the revitalization of the […]

Fostering indigenous leadership, values and skills through cultural initiatives. Dene Nahjo is a Dene Collective based in Denendeh. Fostering indigenous leadership, values, and skills through cultural resurgance initiatives. Dene Nahjo believes the solutions to problems we see in communities are rooted in the teachings of our ancestors. They emphasize and encourage the revitalization of the culture and the connection to the land and they carry out their work in a way that is true to Dene culture.

Nusdeh Yoh Elementary School – Phys Ed and Outdoors Teacher

A discussion with Nusdeh Yoh Elementary School physical education and outdoors teacher on Nusdeh Yoh’s mission and learning objectives.

A discussion with Nusdeh Yoh Elementary School physical education and outdoors teacher on Nusdeh Yoh’s mission and learning objectives.

Nusdeh Yoh Aboriginal Choice School – Grade 2 and 3 Teacher

A discussion with the grade 2 and 3 teacher about the methods of approaching education from an Indigenous methodology approach.

A discussion with the grade 2 and 3 teacher about the methods of approaching education from an Indigenous methodology approach.

Prince George Native Friendship Centre

Discussion with the Early Childhood Services Director on the Aboriginal Head Start Program.

Discussion with the Early Childhood Services Director on the Aboriginal Head Start Program.

Prince George Native Friendship Centre – Director of Youth and Community Services

A discussion of Early Childhood Education services offered at the Prince George Native Friendship Centre that has a focus on intergenerational teachings

A discussion of Early Childhood Education services offered at the Prince George Native Friendship Centre that has a focus on intergenerational teachings

Neskonlith Education Center

Neskonlith Education Center offers high school programming, adult education, and culture & language classes. NEC is working to integrate language & culture into all class programming, while encouraging an understanding that learning is often cyclical and is a lifelong journey. Success in the program is defined by individuals and they are supported to achieve completion […]

Neskonlith Education Center offers high school programming, adult education, and culture & language classes. NEC is working to integrate language & culture into all class programming, while encouraging an understanding that learning is often cyclical and is a lifelong journey.
Success in the program is defined by individuals and they are supported to achieve completion of their goals.

Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre, Peterborough, ON

Nadia McLaren runs programs at the Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre serving urban Indigenous peoples of all ages. Programs for individuals and families are interwoven with language and culture. She speaks of the importance of cultural re-connection in urban settings and the real meanings of the words “success” and “respect”.

Nadia McLaren runs programs at the Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre serving urban Indigenous peoples of all ages. Programs for individuals and families are interwoven with language and culture. She speaks of the importance of cultural re-connection in urban settings and the real meanings of the words “success” and “respect”.

“Fostering a sense of identity”: χpey̓ Elementary, The Vancouver School Board’s Indigenous Focus School

χpey̓ Elementary School was developed by the Vancouver School Board in 2012 in response to calls from the community for an education that was culturally relevant for Indigenous youth and encompassing of local and surrounding traditional Indigenous knowledges. χpey̓’s students are largely Indigenous, although the school also has many non-Indigenous students who attend. The teachers […]

χpey̓ Elementary School was developed by the Vancouver School Board in 2012 in response to calls from the community for an education that was culturally relevant for Indigenous youth and encompassing of local and surrounding traditional Indigenous knowledges. χpey̓’s students are largely Indigenous, although the school also has many non-Indigenous students who attend. The teachers at χpey̓ are each Indigenous and bring their own cultural knowledge and experiences to the school. They infuse Indigenous pedagogies into the BC curriculum with the aim of providing classrooms and teaching which encompass a holistic model of education. The school is focused on teaching “the shared worldviews of Indigenous people and environmentalists” and aims to “honour the shared values, experiences and histories of all Indigenous peoples as well as the aspects that make each nation unique.”

Nunavik Sivunitsavut

Unique in Quebec, Nunavik Sivunitsavut offers one-year courses on Inuit and circumpolar history, politics, governance, culture, and language. Students explore global modern issues from an Inuit perspective. In doing so, they gain invaluable insight into Nunavik, its people and their culture. This post-secondary urban program is specially designed for Nunavik students and began in the […]

Unique in Quebec, Nunavik Sivunitsavut offers one-year courses on Inuit and circumpolar history, politics, governance, culture, and language. Students explore global modern issues from an Inuit perspective. In doing so, they gain invaluable insight into Nunavik, its people and their culture. This post-secondary urban program is specially designed for Nunavik students and began in the fall of 2017.  It is based on the model of the Nunavut Sivunitsavut model in Ottawa, ON.  To learn more, visit: https://sivunitsavut.ca/about-us/.

Nunavik Sivunitsavut signifie Nunavik: notre avenir en langue inuktitut. Unique en son genre, ce programme postsecondaire en milieu urbain spécialement conçu pour les étudiants du Nunavik a été inauguré à l’automne 2017 d’après le modèle du modèle du Nunavut Sivunitsavut d’Ottawa et à l’initiative concertée de Kativik Ilisarniliriniq (anciennement nommé Commission scolaire Kativik ) et du Collège John Abbott. En plus de ces deux partenaires, la Corporation Makivik, le Gouvernement régional Kativik et de l’Insitut culturel Avataq composent aujourd’hui le comité consultatif de Nunavik Sivunitsavut. La collaboration du Collège John Abott et de la commission scolaire inuite remonte à plus d’une vingtaine d’années. Initié en 2015, l’élaboration du programme Nunavik Sivunitsavut fait suite à des discussions amorcées il y a plus de 10 ans par l’organisme Saputiit et répond à une demande clairement exprimée par les communautés du Nunavik lors des consultations Parnasimautik en 2014. Les cours de niveau postsecondaire offerts par Nunavik Sivunitsavut permettent aux étudiants inuit du Québec d’étudier l’histoire, la langue et les cultures circumpolaires dans le but de contextualiser les enjeux territoriaux, politiques, culturels et socioéconomiques du Nunavik et de ses populations. Il vise ainsi à favoriser le développement du Inuguiniq ou l’autonomie et la confiance ainsi que le leadership de chacun de ses étudiants à travers l’engagement communautaire, la fierté identitaire, le développement académique et l’imminik illinianiq (ou la connaissance de soi). Le programme combine un passage tremplin vers les études collégiales à travers une offre de cours adaptés et accrédités dans le but de favoriser la diplomation postsecondaire. La première cohorte comprend dix-huit étudiants inuit, de 17 à 38 ans. Nunavik Sivunitsavut bénéficie du soutien financier du Gouvernement du Canada par le biais du ministère des Affaires autochtones et du Nord Canada ainsi que du soutien financier du ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur du Québec.

 

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RÉFÉRENCES

Hinkson, K. (2017, septembre 20). New post-secondary program puts Inuit youth in touch with their culture. Consulté à l’adresse http://sivunitsavut.ca/en/ John Abbott College. (2017a).

Nunavik Sivunitsavut. Consulté à l’adresse http://www.johnabbott.qc.ca/2017/09/nunavik-sivunitsavut-program-launch/ John Abbott College. (2017b).

Nunavik Sivunitsavut. Consulté à l’adresse http://www.johnabbott.qc.ca/2017/09/nunavik-sivunitsavut-program-launch/ Kativik School Board. (2017).

Nunavik Sivunitsavut. Consulté à l’adresse http://sivunitsavut.ca/en/ Rogers, S. (2017, septembre 12).

Nunavik Sivunitsavut is a go. Consulté à l’adresse http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674nunavik_sivunitsavut_is_a_go/