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- “VOCATIONAL TRAINING” – no dfn
- First Nations Adult Education School Council Québec (FNAESC)
- Regional Adult Education Centres (RAECs)
- to expand access to vocational training (VT) for Indigenous community members
- “Classroom courses that lean heavily on theory are not a particularly good fit for Indigenous students.”
- “it is essential that Indigenous language, history and culture be embedded in curricula.”
- “international scholarship shows that VT can be a proactive way to address the challenges of skills development among Indigenous people”
- “VT partnerships are often negotiated around contested areas of interest, resulting in asymmetric power relations between the different partners, particularly when the training is delivered by a private enterprise acting as an employer”
- “semi-structured interviews with actors in partner school service centres (SSCs) and school board (SBs)”
- “data were collected on the various phases involved in creating a partnership, partners and students, characteristics of the programs relocated in the community and types of effect these programs have”
“delocalizing VT eliminates the need for students to travel, making it easier to access local daycare services and thus boosting enrolment in training programs.”
- “access to local pedagogical and psychosocial resources, a more efficient match of training and cultural events, and proximity to local employers can also lead to optimized and more practical on-the-job training”
- “Research has shown how education has a long history of being used as a tool to assimilate Indigenous people and the subsequent harmful intergenerational traumas endured by those who were subjected to it”
- “Out of regard for Indigenous people and respect for the guiding principles of research involving Indigenous people (Herman, 2018; Kovach, 2021), a decolonizing approach was also employed, to summon selfreflection and open mind to restoring Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge, beliefs and values.”
- “Abiding by these principles, we can certainly play our part in putting an end to belittling, ignoring and discriminating against their knowledge (Tremblay, 2022).”
- “Out of respect for the oral tradition of Indigenous people, semi-structured interviews inspired by the sharing circle were chosen. Sharing circles are spaces where facts, opinions and answers can be expressed without interruption or opposition (Lathoud, 2016).”