First Nations education in Canada : the circle unfolds / edited by Marie Battiste and Jean Barman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Marie Battiste -- Eastern door: reconceptualizing First Nations education -- ch. 1. Towards a redifinition of Indian education / Eber Hampton -- ch. 2. Peacekeeping actions at home: a medicine wheel model for a peacekeeping pedogogy / Sharilyn Calliou -- ch. 3. Redefining science education for Aboriginal students / Madeleine McIvor -- Southern door: connecting with and maintaing our relations -- ch. 4. Aboriginal espistemology / Willie Ermine -- ch. 5. Quaslametko and Yetko: two grandmother models for contemporary Native education pedagogy / Shirley Sterling -- ch. 6. Language and cultural content in Native education / Robert Leavitt -- ch. 7. Learning processes and teaching roles in Native education: cultural base and cultural brokerage / Arlene Stairs -- Western door: meeting the challenge of Incoherence -- ch. 8. A major challenge for the education system: Aboriginal retention and droupout / Ron Mackay and Lawrence Myles -- ch. 9. Teacher education and Aboriginal opposition / Rick Hesch -- ch. 10. The Challenge for Universities / Agnes Grant -- ch. 11. Non-Native teachers teching inNative communities / John Taylor -- Northern door: transforming First Nations education -- ch. 12. Treaties and Indian education / James [sá ké j] Youngblood Henderson -- ch. 13. Taking control: contradiction and First Nations education / Celia Haig-Brown -- ch. 14. Locally developed Native studies curriculum: an historical and philosophical rationale / Jo-ann Archibald -- ch. 15. The sacred circle: An Aboriginal approach to healing education at an urban high school / Robert Regnier -- Bibliography of First Nations pedagogy / Kathy Vermette