Bending the Box: Learning From Indigenous Students' Understandings of Wholistic Success as They Transition to University

• In Event: 72.052 - Indigenous Students Navigating Identity, Motivation, and Epistemology in Education: A Fireside Chat

Abstract

There is a call for educators working in higher education institutions to advance Indigenous peoples’ rights and support their goals of self-determination, which positions a key social justice issue at the forefront of educational policy and programming (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007). This study responds to that call by focusing on how Indigenous knowledge informs high school to university transitions for Indigenous learners. It incorporated Indigenous epistemologies and utilized Indigenous theoretical frameworks to investigate Aboriginal learners’ experience of transition and look beyond how they ‘adapt’ or ‘adjust’ to university by investigating notions of wholistic success.

Author

• Amy Marie Parent, The University of British Columbia