Post-secondary and higher education of indigenous peoples in Canada: historical, social, economic, cultural, family-related, and individual barriers
Date
2016-09-12
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Lviv Politechnic Publishing House
Abstract
The article deals with the issues of post-secondary and higher education of indigenous peoples in
Canada. The main objectives are defined as the theoretical analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature
highlighting different aspects of the problem under research and identifies of the barriers to obtaining postsecondary
and higher education by indigenous peoples. The post-secondary and higher education have been
studied by foreign and Ukrainian scientists (Т. Andryushchenko, O. Barabash, N. Bidyuk, B. Burtch,
M. Busko, J. Friesen, V. Friesen, S. Honcharenko, V. Kirkness, D. Klyne, O. Kotlyakova, T. Kuchai,
L. Lukyanova, H. McCue, M. Mendelson, N. Nychkalo, O. Ogiyenko, J. Peters, R. Price, L. Pukhovska,
J. Silver, F. Simard, S. Sysoyeva, J. White, I. Zyazyun). The legislative and normative framework of
post-secondary and higher education of indigenous peoples in Canada is considered; the statistical data
which characterise the indigenous peoples’ participation in post-secondary and higher education programs
are presented; the existing barriers to getting post-secondary and higher education by indigenous peoples are
analysed and identified as historical, social, economic, cultural, family-related and individual ones. The
research methodology comprises theoretical (logical, induction and deduction, comparison, structural and
functional, systematic, analysis and synthesis), and applied (discussion, questioning and interviewing)
methods. The research results are presented.
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Keywords
Canada, higher education, post-secondary education, indigenous peoples, historical, social, economic, cultural, family-related and individual barriers
Citation
Mukan N. Post-secondary and higher education of indigenous peoples in Canada: historical, social, economic, cultural, family-related, and individual barriers / Nataliya Mukan, Mariya Zapotichna, Svitlana Kravets // Ukrainian Journal of Educational Research. — Lviv : Lviv Politechnic Publishing House, 2016. — Vol 1. — No 1. — P. 39–44.