Regions: North Slave Region
Tags: aboriginal community, ethnography, public policy, school improvement plan, socio-cultural, public awareness, educational evaluation, student participation
| Principal Investigator: | Davison, Colleen (1) |
| Licence Number: | 13744 |
| Organization: | University of Calgary |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2005
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| Issued: | Feb 14, 2005 |
| Project Team: | Dr. Nancy |
Objective(s): Less than half of all aboriginal students presently finish high school in Canada. Because schooling is strongly correlated with health, the objectives of this study are as follows: 1) to gain an understanding of the role school plays in the lives of northern aboriginal youth; 2) to gain an understanding of the meaning of schooling and education to aboriginal youth in a resource-rich area of Canada's north; 3) to build capacity by involving aboriginal youth and local communities in the research process; and 4) to widely disseminate the knowledge gained from this study, in order to assist in the development of future research, practice guidelines, interventions, and/or public policy.
