| dc.contributor.author | Johnson, Barbara Muriel. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:36:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2000 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINQ66665 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55795 | |
| dc.description | This thesis explores the Nova Scotia Public School Programs (PSP) through the lens of Native childrearing practices (NCRP). The dialogue of the study follows a circular path around an eight-pointed star while using discourse analysis to raise consciousness regarding the need to make the PSP more inclusive of other cultures particularly the Mi'kmaw culture. It advances the notion that both the PSP and the NCRP have specific principles that lead to the enculturation of students. It also suggests that the PSP needs to be deconstructed then transformed to provide more balanced principles governing the Nova Scotia curriculum at it pertains to Mi'kmaw culture. The thesis concludes with recommendations on how the Mi'kmaq culture could become part of the Nova Scotia curriculum. In addition, addressing revisions to the PSP it implies a process for the continuity of the Mi'kmaw culture from the home to school. The thesis also strives to revitalize Mi'kmaw culture by way of a contemporary and balanced Nova Scotia curriculum. The conclusion provides a transformational work in progress that is designed to establish a vision for an inclusive PSP and an opportunity for Mi'kmaw children and youth to not only see themselves in the curriculum but to have enhanced opportunities to be both valued by others and to value their own culture within an inclusive framework. The process enables educational opportunities for and about Mi'kmaw lives. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 2000. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education, Bilingual and Multicultural. | en_US |
| dc.title | Out of the ruts of Nova Scotia education: Mi'kmaw doors of education emerge. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
