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Beyond "Sharing Time": Negotiating Aboriginal Culture in an Urban Classroom.
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Ward, Angela – English Quarterly, 1996
Describes and interprets how one Aboriginal teacher in Canada used her cultural understandings to build a cross-cultural language arts program for inner-city children. (TB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
Education of Native Adolescents in Inner-City Schools.
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Lee, John D. – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1986
Cites the high dropout rates for native students in Saskatchewan urban centers and suggests that the inner-city native alternative school may be the best way to return students to some form of education leading to eventual employment. Lists 17 "do's" and "don'ts" for effective alternative schools. (JHZ)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate
Adult Education: The Past, the Present, and the Future. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (14th, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 1-3, 1995) = L'Education des Adultes: Un Passe, Un Present, un Avenir. Les Actes du Congress Annuel, l'Association Canadienne pour l'Etude de l'Education des Adultes (14e, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1-3 Juin, 1995).
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Danis, Claudia, Ed.; Hrimech, Mohamed, Ed. – 1995
The following papers (with nine in French) are included: "Refocusing the Multicultural Discourse in Adult Education" (Acton); "University Extension and the Service University" (Archer); "Linking Cases to Course Content" (Block); "The Effects of Education on Food Security among Low Income Urban Adults"…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Art Education, Biographies
Final Report of the MLA Committee on Lifelong Learning: Helping Adults Return to Learning To Improve Their Employment Potential and Realize Their Career Goals.
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Alberta Learning, Edmonton. – 2002
In 1999, the Committee on Lifelong Learning of the Ministry of Learning in Alberta, Canada, conducted a series of consultations on lifelong learning to identify ways of helping adults return to learning to improve their employment potential and realize their career goals. The committee received input from more than 450 Albertans in 14 rural and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy