Supporting Indigenous Students Through the University Journey

Author(s):  
Elaine Chapman ◽  
Gail Whiteford
1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-54

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at The University of Queensland has identified the need to develop detailed monitoring strategies to gauge the participation and academic performance of indigenous students at The University of Queensland. To reach this goal the Unit has launched a project which aims to investigate the participation and post-study destinations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.


Author(s):  
Marcia R. Friesen ◽  
Randy Herrmann

Canadians live with a legacy of troubled relationships between Indigenous Canadians and non-Indigenous Canadians, rooted in a history of colonialism and racism. Aligned with the Truth & Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action and the University of Manitoba's Strategic Priorities 2015-2020, The Faculty of Engineering is planning curriculum initiatives to incorporate Indigenous Knowledge, perspectives and design principles.The paper reviews the conceptual approach which encompasses both the culture of the institution as well as specific curriculum initiatives. These curriculum initiatives include redeveloping three core courses, first-year Design in Engineering, third year Engineering Economics, and third year Technology & Society for explicit inclusion of Indigenous knowledge, perspectives, and design principles; integrating Indigenous design emphases in capstone design courses, including Indigenous design principles and design application of importance to Indigenous communities, such as infrastructure development, energy independence, and food security; increasing the participation of Indigenous students in the Coop/Industrial Internship Program (IIP), and using the Coop/IIP to build authentic linkages to Manitoba Indigenous communities and environments; and, fostering linkages between teaching and existing faculty research programs


2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Ellender ◽  
Marlene Drysdale ◽  
Janice Chesters ◽  
Susan Faulkner ◽  
Heather Kelly ◽  
...  

AbstractThis paper investigates reasons Indigenous Australian medical students gave for leaving their courses prior to graduation. Indigenous students who had withdrawn or deferred from their medical courses were asked about the barriers and disincentives that had dissuaded them from graduating. Although the response rate to the questionnaire was very low, it opened up a way of looking at the particular experiences of Indigenous students. Of the 12 responses, the most prominent reason given for withdrawing was financial. Most were satisfied with enrolment processes but a number were disappointed with their courses and with teaching methods. More support from the university was the only encouragement that would have persuaded most respondents to continue. This paper explores the reasons for the high rate of withdrawal of Indigenous medical students and concludes by suggesting ways in which secondary schools, universities and their medical schools could respond to the recruitment and retention of Indigenous medical students.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Barcelos Doebber ◽  
Maria Aparecida Bergamaschi

O crescente acesso de indígenas ao ensino superior, motivados pela busca de apropriação de ferramentas das sociedades não indígenas para a defesa de seus direitos, territórios e organização social, provocou, na última década, a consolidação de políticas de ingresso nas universidades públicas brasileiras por meiode cotas e/ou de outros programas específicos de acesso. Neste trabalho, apresentamos reflexões decorrentes de pesquisa de doutorado, a qual, através de uma metodologia colaborativa de inspiração etnográfica, cartografou movimentos do estar indígena na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), bem como as repercussões dessa presença na instituição. Observamos que, ao chegarem à universidade, os jovens indígenas re-criam esse espaço, apropriando-se do universo acadêmico, dos conhecimentos ocidentais e, ao mesmo tempo, re-existem através de uma presença disruptiva que se expressa na linguagem, nas diferentes temporalidades, na lógica comunal, no compromisso com a comunidade e na re-existência epistêmica. Desse modo, o estar sendo indígena universitário dá-se na fronteira entre dois universos opostos e complementares. Nesse lugar, habita a potência do pensar indígena que, atuando entre dois sistemas de pensamento (da ciência ocidental e o próprio), pode causar rupturas na episteme hegemônica.YOUNG INDIGENOUS IN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL: movements of seizing and re-existingABSTRACTThe increasing access of indigenous people to higher education, motivated by the search for seize tools from non-indigenous societies to be used in the defense of their rights, territories, and social organization, led in the last decade to the consolidation of admission policies in public universities through quotas and/or other specific access programs. Here we present reflections resulting from a doctoral research, which, through a collaborative methodology of ethnographic inspiration, mapped movements of indigenous living at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, as well as the repercussions of this presence in the institution. We note that, upon arriving to the university, young indigenous people re-create this space, seizing the academic universe of Western knowledge and, at the same time, re-exist through a disruptive presence that is expressed in language, in different temporalities, in communal logic, in commitment to the community, and in epistemic re-existence. Thus far, living, being an indigenous university student, takes place at the border between two opposite and complementary universes. In this place lives the indigenous power of thinking, acting between two systems of thought (of western science and itself), can cause ruptures in the hegemonic episteme.Keywords: Indigenous students. Modes of re-existence. University. Interculturality.


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Kevin Lamoureux ◽  
Jennifer Katz

In Canada, inclusive educators wishing to design education for all, must consider one of the most excluded groups in our schools and our society - Indigenous students and peoples – in their efforts to design for diversity. This article is based on a keynote lecture given by the author at a conference, Exploring Intersectionalities for Leadership and School Inclusion, held at the University of British Columbia on June 1, 2019.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katelyn Barney

Drawing on interviews with current and past Indigenous undergraduate students at the University of Queensland (UQ), this paper reports on findings from a project that explored the experiences of Indigenous Australian students and identified inhibitors and success factors for students. It also discusses one of the outcomes of the project and planned future developments that aim to provide better support for Indigenous Australian students at UQ. By knowing and acting upon the kinds of mechanisms that can assist Indigenous students, their experiences of tertiary study can be enhanced, leading to more students enrolling in and completing university study.


Author(s):  
Ingrid N. Pinto-López ◽  
Cynthia M. Montaudon-Tomas ◽  
Marisol Muñoz-Ortiz ◽  
Ivonne M. Montaudon -Tomas

This chapter presents an example of culturally responsive teaching, CRT, in a private university in Puebla, Mexico. The university developed a program to integrate indigenous students into higher education programs promoting personal development and community growth. CRT has been used as a methodology that promotes inclusion in the classroom, helping students connect their cultural backgrounds in the new context. In the study, focus groups were conducted and students' narratives were collected based on their personal experiences during their stay at the university. Additionally, the CRT Survey was applied to a sample of professors who taught indigenous students in their courses.


Author(s):  
Ingrid N. Pinto-López ◽  
Cynthia M. Montaudon-Tomas ◽  
Marisol Muñoz-Ortiz ◽  
Ivonne M. Montaudon -Tomas

This chapter presents an example of culturally responsive teaching, CRT, in a private university in Puebla, Mexico. The university developed a program to integrate indigenous students into higher education programs promoting personal development and community growth. CRT has been used as a methodology that promotes inclusion in the classroom, helping students connect their cultural backgrounds in the new context. In the study, focus groups were conducted and students' narratives were collected based on their personal experiences during their stay at the university. Additionally, the CRT Survey was applied to a sample of professors who taught indigenous students in their courses.


2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
Kinewesquao/Cathy Richardson ◽  
Qwul'sih'yah'maht/Robina Thomas ◽  
Kundoque/Jacquie Green ◽  
Naadli/Todd Ormiston

This article documents the establishment of the Indigenous Specializations program in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria. In the absence of funding for Indigenous programs, First Nations professors Robina Thomas and Jacquie Green developed the Indigenous Specializations program ‘off the side of their desk’. This article describes the process of creating a culturally specific program for Indigenous students in a mainstream university. Many of the challenges depicted in the article are ongoing, alongside various successes and victories for Indigenous graduates.


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