LibGuides: Virtual Displays: PENT Resources

Introduction

The virtual displays for PENT resources are History of Education, Teaching Resources, and Traditional Knowledge.

The following sections have a variety of topics regarding both displays. Physical displays can also be found by the main circulation desk in the John E. Robbins Library.

Progress of Education

This section shows how the education climate has been shifting, both for bringing in and embracing Indigenous knowledges as well as improving education for Indigenous communities.

Teaching Resources

Various teaching resources available in the Library for PENT and other teachers to use in their programs and planning.

Traditional Knowledge

Traditional knowledges from Indigenous studies, knowledge keepers, and academics.

PENT Resources

Aboriginal Education by Marlene Brant Castellano (Editor); Lynne Davis (Editor); Louise Lahache (Editor)
Call Number: E96.2. A25 2000

ISBN: 9780774807821

Publication Date: 2000-08-15

This book analyzes the institutional inertia and government policies that continue to get in the way. It emphasizes Aboriginal philosophies and priorities in teaching methods, program design, and institutional development. It also covers a broad range of subjects: educational practice from elementary to post-secondary levels; initiatives in language conservation and communications media; the development of Aboriginal institutions; and policy discourse among Aboriginal, federal, provincial, and territorial bodies.
Aboriginal Education in Canada : A Study in Decolonization by K. P. Binda (author), Sharilyn Calliou (author)
Call Number: E96.2. A255 2001

ISBN: 9781896191058

Publication Date: 2001

This book traces the evolution, continuing crisis, and aspirations of Aboriginal education in Canada while analyzing the contradictions and challenges facing Aboriginal education as educators struggle to overcome problems and move the field towards parity with the rest of Canada.
Aboriginal Languages and Education by Sonia Morris (Editor)
Call Number: E96.2. A26

ISBN: 0889624798

Publication Date: 1996-01-01

This book brings together seven studies, written by experts in the field, that deal with the most important features of native Canadian language education: the relation of language to culture; the kinds of curricular approaches best suited to aboriginal languages; the optimal pattern of relationship between teacher and learner; the linguistic characteristics of the learner; and the role of communication in language study.
Aboriginal Student Engagement and Achievement by Lorenzo Cherubini
Call Number: E96.65. O58C54 2014

ISBN: 9780774826556

Publication Date: 2014-11-15

This book investigates the effectiveness of attempts to introduce culturally relevant programs in Ontario, where the province has documented an achievement gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students. It spotlights one high school's attempt to recognize Aboriginal students' cultural and academic needs while helping them to build relationships with non-Aboriginal students. Teachers, students, youth counsellors, parents and caregivers, community leaders, and administrators share their thoughts on the effectiveness of the program, adding their voices to the existing literature and a human face to quantitative data on Aboriginal education and public policy in Ontario.
Approaches to Aboriginal Education in Canada by Frances Widdowson (Editor); Albert Howard (Editor)
Call Number: E96.2. A66 2013

ISBN: 9781550594560

Publication Date: 2013-11-06

In the crucial discussion of Aboriginal education in Canada, there are two distinct schools of thought: parallelism and integrationism. For the first time in one volume, leading thinkers on both sides share their perspectives, allowing readers to examine this complex and emotionally charged issue from all angles.
Decolonization in Practice by Ranjan Datta (Editor)
Call Number: FC104. D4194 2023

ISBN: 1773383809

Publication Date: 2023-11-30

This book speaks to the practical work of dismantling colonial ideologies and features contributions from Indigenous, Black, racialized immigrant, refugee, and ally scholars, researchers, and practitioners who share their experiences enacting decolonizing work in their communities. Each chapter presents stories of inspiration, resistance, unlearning, relearning, and transformation on the journey towards reconciliation.
Decolonizing Education by Marie Battiste; Rita Bouvier (Foreword by)
Call Number: E96.2. B395D43 2013

ISBN: 9781895830774

Publication Date: 2013-09-01

Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, this book documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. It proposes a new model of education, arguing the preservation of Aboriginal knowledge is an Aboriginal right.
Kaandossiwin, 2nd Ed by Kathleen E. Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe)
Call Number: E76.7. A27 2022

ISBN: 9781773635170

Publication Date: 2022-07-19

Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, this book describes how Indigenous re-searchers re-theorize and re-create methodologies.
The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People by Bernard Schissel; Terry Wotherspoon
Call Number: E96.2. S34L44 2003

ISBN: 0195416643

Publication Date: 2002-08-01

This book details the harm done to Aboriginal children and their families - both in the past, when residential schools explicitly set out to eliminate Aboriginal identities, but also in more recent years, when educational systems designed for the mainstream have relegated First Nations students to the sidelines.
The New Buffalo by Blair Stonechild
Call Number: E96.2. S76

ISBN: 0887556930

Publication Date: 2006-12-15

Post-secondary education, often referred to as "the new buffalo," is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. This book traces the history of Aboriginal post-secondary education policy from its earliest beginnings as a government tool for assimilation and cultural suppression to its development as means of Aboriginal self-determination and self-government.
Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law by Leo Baskatawang; Jim Daschuk (Foreword by)
Call Number: E99. C6B3657 2023

ISBN: 9781772840254

Publication Date: 2023-03-30

This book traces the history of the neglected treaty relationship between the Crown and the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3, and the Canadian government's egregious failings to administer effective education policy for Indigenous youth--failures epitomized by, but not limited to, the horrors of the residential school system. Rooted in the belief that Indigenous education should be governed and administered by Indigenous peoples, it envisions a hopeful future for Indigenous nations where their traditional laws are formally recognized and affirmed by the governments of Canada.
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education by Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn (et al.)
Call Number: E97. R343 2018

ISBN: 9780813588698

Publication Date: 2018-02-27

Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education at only one percent of the total post-secondary student population. This lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond enrollment. This book highlights the current scholarship emerging from these scholars of higher education.
S'teṉistolw̱ : Moving Indigenous Education Forward by Todd Lee Ormiston (et al.)
Call Number: E96.2. S735 2020

ISBN: 9781926476285

Publication Date: 2020

S’TENISTOLW is a SENĆOŦEN term referencing the concept of ‘moving forward’. This book highlights both the doing and being of Indigenous education. Authors share their knowledge on the themes of the most recent S’TENISTOLW conference: Land-Based Learning; Supporting Learners; Indigenization; and Strengthening Alliances. Keynote addresses by renowned Indigenous scholars Gregory Cajete, Graham Hingangaroa Smith, Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Kathy Absolon are intertwined throughout the book.
A Study of Aboriginal Teachers' Professional Knowledge and Experience in Canadian Schools by Verna St. Denis (author), Canadian Teachers' Federation
Call Number: E96.2. S734 2010

ISBN: 9780889893924

Publication Date: 2010

This qualitative study, initiated by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation’s Advisory Committee on Aboriginal Education and funded by the Canadian Council on Learning, explores the professional knowledge and experiences of Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) teachers. Conducted by Verna St. Denis, Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan, the study seeks to address the urgent need to improve and promote Aboriginal education. The continuing goal of the study is to promote ongoing dialogue and learning about Aboriginal education within teachers’ organizations and the broader educational community.
Unsettling Education by Anna-Leah King (Editor); Kathleen O'Reilly (Editor); Patrick Lewis (Editor)
Call Number: E96.2. U57 2024

ISBN: 9781773384344

Publication Date: 2024-07-31

This edited collection tackles "unsettling" as an emerging field of study that calls for settlers to follow Indigenous leadership and relationality and work toward disrupting the colonial reality through their everyday lives. Bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and activists, it considers how we can reconcile and transcend ongoing settler colonialism.
Unsettling Settler-Colonial Education by Cornel Pewewardy (et al.)
Call Number: LC196. U58 2022

ISBN: 9780807766811

Publication Date: 2022-04-01

This book introduces an education model to promote healing and cultural restoration of Indigenous peoples. It also presents the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM), challenging readers to examine how even the most well-intentioned educators are complicit in reproducing ethnic stereotypes, racist actions, deficit-based ideology, and recolonization.
Voice of the Drum by Roger Neil
Call Number: E96.2. B64

ISBN: 9780968675601

Publication Date: 2000-01-01

This book is based on an 11-day international gathering of Indigenous Elders and educators in 1998. The readings are organized within four areas of Indigenous education and culture: worldview, curriculum change, governance and policies, and spiritual reflections.

Achieving Aboriginal Student Success by Pamela Rose Toulouse
Call Number: E96.2. T68A23 2011

ISBN: 9781553793168

Publication Date: 2011-10-14

This book provides strategies, lesson plans, and hands-on activities that support both Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners. Using Anishinaabe teachings as a model, it will help you infuse Indigenous perspectives into your curriculum, as well as teach to the specific needs of Indigenous students. Find best practices for classroom management, assessment tools, suggestions for connecting with local Indigenous communities, and much more!
Achieving Indigenous Student Success by Pamela Rose Toulouse
Call Number: E96.2. T68A24 2016

ISBN: 9781553796565

Publication Date: 2016-04-11

This book provides strategies, lessons, and hands-on activities that support both Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners in the secondary classroom. It is for all teachers of grades 9-12 who are looking for ways to infuse Indigenous perspectives into their courses. Ideas include best practices for retention/transition/graduation planning, differentiated instruction, assessment, and equity instruction.
First Nations Teachers by June Beynon
Call Number: E96.2. B48F57 2008

ISBN: 9781550593495

Publication Date: 2008-01-01

The struggles and identities of educators are rich resources for transforming colonial and post-colonial educational systems. The teachers in this book resourcefully built their own identities from Indigenous ideologies and practices, as well as the world of mainstream schools. These struggles and connections fuel the transformation of colonial educational systems into spaces that support and encourage Indigenous learners.
Indigenous Child and Youth Care by Cherylanne James
Call Number: HQ778.7. C2J36 2023

ISBN: 9781773383712

Publication Date: 2023-08-31

This book is about unity. It seeks to create a heart-to-heart practice by bridging Indigenous ways of knowing with Western Child and Youth Care practices, encouraging students to approach their work with a more open understanding of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit worldviews. It guides students through self-location by dismantling their pre-existing biases regarding Indigenous Peoples, understanding personal privilege and power, educating themselves on Canadian and Indigenous history and contexts, and learning about the pervasive impacts of colonialism.
Indigenous Integration by Adrienne Castellon
Call Number: E96.2. C38I53 2017

ISBN: 1773701665

Publication Date: 2017-12-02

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission challenges all Canadian educators to Integrate Indigenous content and ways of knowing into the curriculum. This book for secondary teachers responds to these challenges by including aligned pedagogical practices and content. The easy to read discussion, extensive links to resources and practical, ready-to-use applications will not only help secondary teachers meet this curricular challenge but enjoy deeper connections with their students.
Land-based Education : Embracing the Rhythms of the Earth from an Indigenous Perspective by Herman Michell
Call Number: E96.2. M49L36 2018

ISBN: 9781926476193

Publication Date: 2018

Land-based education is in demand within both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. This book introduces basic elements of Land-based Education from an Indigenous perspective with a focus on the Woodlands Cree. Herman discusses four curriculum orientations (Positivist, Constructivist, Critical, and Post-Modern) that are connected to environment-related education so that educators have a springboard from which to ground their practice.
Learning and Teaching Together by Michele Td Tanaka
Call Number: E96.2. T35L43 2016

ISBN: 9780774829519

Publication Date: 2016-11-15

This book introduces teachers of all levels to an indigenist approach to education. It recounts how pre-service teachers enrolled in a cross-cultural course in British Columbia immersed themselves in indigenous ways of knowing as they worked alongside indigenous wisdom keepers. By sharing how one group of non-indigenous teachers learned to privilege indigenous ways of knowing in the classroom, it opens a path for teachers to nurture indigenist cross-cultural understanding in their own classrooms.
Supporting Indigenous Children's Development by Alan Pence; Jessica Ball
Call Number: E96.2. B35S87 2006

ISBN: 0774812303

Publication Date: 2006-11-06

This book challenges and offers an alternative to the imposition of best practices on communities by outside specialists. It tells the story of an unexpected partnership initiated by an Aboriginal tribal council with the University of Victoria's School of Child and Youth Care.
Teaching Where You Are by Shannon Leddy; Lorrie Miller
Call Number: LC1099.515. C85L43 2024

ISBN: 9781487549947

Publication Date: 2023-11-17

This book is a guide for non-Indigenous educators to work in good ways with Indigenous students and provides resources across curricular areas to support all students. Using the holistic framework of the Medicine Wheel, Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller illustrate the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking, a focus on experiential learning, and the thoughtful application of the 4Rs - Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, and Responsibility - can bring us back to the principle of teaching people, not subjects.
Working with Aboriginal Communities in Places of Higher Learning by Herman Michell (author)
Call Number: E96.2. M52 2013

ISBN: 0991944100

Publication Date: 2013

This resource guide provides an overview of Aboriginal people and their communities in Canada, along with Aboriginal people's social, historical, political, cultural, educational, and economic realities.
Working with Elders and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Reader and Guide for Places of Higher Learning by Herman J. Michell
Call Number: E96.2. M53 2011

ISBN: 0981151841

Publication Date: 2011

This book is a practical, easy to follow, reader designed to provide both examples and suggestions so as to allow readers the ability to establish “a starting base from which they can develop their own ways of working with Elders…” (p. ii). By exploring key Indigenous concepts, it hopes to build cross-cultural bridges.
Woven Words for Indigenous Education by Brent Debassige (editor), Rebecca Coulter (editor)
Call Number: E96.2. W69 2013

ISBN: 1771250704

Publication Date: 2013

This book explores such topics as recalling traditional knowledges, how such knowledge was lost and/or is experiencing resurgence due to Indigenous education. It also analyzes growing up in "settler institutions" from early childhood to post-secondary education as an Indigenous student. It then finishes with lessons for teaching and learning in First Nations schools.

Bead Talk by Carmen L. Robertson (Editor); Judy Anderson (Editor); Katherine Boyer (Editor)
Call Number: NK3650.5. C32P73 2024

ISBN: 9781772840650

Publication Date: 2024-05-03

This book gathers conversations, interviews, essays, and full-colour reproductions of beadwork from expert and emerging artists, academics, and curators to illustrate the importance of beading in contemporary Indigenous arts. Taken together, the book poses and responds to philosophical questions about beading on the prairies:
Bridging Cultures by Glen Aikenhead; Herman Michell
Call Number: E96.2. A35 2011

ISBN: 9780132105576

Publication Date: 2010-08-15

This book validates the role of traditional knowledge in the school science curriculum. Science teachers and teacher candidates will find it a fascinating and informative book, sure to impact their teaching, regardless of the makeup of their student bodies in K-12.
A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle by Robert Rogers; Russell Willier; David Young
Call Number: E99. C88Y683 2015

ISBN: 9781583949030

Publication Date: 2015-06-09

Details the life and healing practices of medicine man Russell Willier, with extensive photographs and materials on the plants used by Willier in addition to valuable information on the active ingredients in these plants and their uses in alternative therapies.
Cree Ways of Knowing and School Science by Herman Michell (author)
Call Number: E96.65. S3M52 2013

ISBN: 0981151892

Publication Date: 2013

Drawing upon a variety of academic sources as well as personal and professional experiences, this book is designed to assist educators in coming to understand the larger frameworks of Cree ontology (ways of seeing the world and one’s place in it), epistemology (ways of understanding knowledge), and methodologies (ways of teaching).
Muskege : Carol's Traditional Medicines by Caroline Sanoffsky (author), Nicole Marie Burton (illustrator)
Call Number: QK99. A1S26 2017

ISBN: 1927849373

Publication Date: 2017

Muskgege is a written record of traditional knowledge, passed down through the generations. It features descriptions and illustrations of 36 wild plants that can be used to make medicines. It is a beautiful and compelling reminder of the important role nature plays in First Nations culture.
Pathways for Remembering and Recognizing Indigenous Thought in Education by Sandra Styres
Call Number: E96.2. S89P38 2017

ISBN: 9781487521639

Publication Date: 2017-03-22

This book is an exploration into some of the shared cross-cultural themes that inform and shape Indigenous thought and Indigenous educational philosophy. It offers new pathways for remembering, conceptualizing and understanding these ancient knowledges and philosophies within a twenty-first century educational context.
Wisdom Engaged by Leslie Main Johnson (Editor); Earle H. Waugh (Series edited by)
Call Number: E98. M4W4957 2019

ISBN: 9781772124101

Publication Date: 2019-07-21

This book demonstrates how traditional knowledge, Indigenous approaches to healing, and the insights of Western bio-medicine can complement each other when all voices are heard in a collaborative effort to address changes to Indigenous communities' well-being.