Unlearning colonialism : an aboriginal experience in education as the practice of freedom
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2000
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Boulter, Judith Elizabeth
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This study is an Aboriginal account of the experience of a remote First Nation community in post - secondary education. The education program was delivered in the community as a result of a partnership that was formed between the community and the First Nations Partnership Program in the University of Victoria's School of Child and Youth Care. A prominent feature of the program studied involves the manner in which the community's unique culture formed a major part of the curriculum, and the cultural competence of the program that obtained in the final delivery of the program according to the accounts of the interview participants. The study links responses from the community members, and utilizes grounded theory to generate theoretical propositions that depict an educational experience as the practice of freedom.