Redefining success in Aboriginal learning

Redefining how success is measured in Aboriginal learning

Workshops

In 2007, CCL organized a series of workshops that brought together Aboriginal learning professionals, community practitioners, researchers and analysts to begin discussing and identifying the aspects of lifelong learning that define learning success for First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.

The objectives of the workshops

  • to identify the areas of learning that foster success for First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities—represented in three draft Holistic Lifelong Learning Models
  • to identify the indicators that are needed to measure learning progress for First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, based on the three draft Holistic Lifelong Learning Models.

When organizing these workshops, CCL respected the following guiding principles:

  • understanding that the workshops are part of a larger, iterative approach to measure success in Aboriginal learning, and that First Nations, Métis and Inuit will guide this process according to their needs
  • ensuring inclusiveness of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples by working with communities to define and measure success for Aboriginal learners, instead of imposing pre-determined solutions
  • working to ensure support for this initiative from First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples through collaboration with the National Aboriginal Organizations
  • recognizing the cultural and regional distinctiveness among and between First Nations, Inuit and Métis people
  • ensuring that any set of national indicators developed to measure lifelong learning has relevance for First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities and complements local or regional initiatives wherever possible
  • ensuring that indicators that measure lifelong learning are culturally relevant, responsive to community needs and grounded in research
Material available from the workshops

These workshops produced three draft Holistic Lifelong Learning Models that can be used as a framework to measure success in learning for First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.

 

 

 

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