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Prologue : historic context. Moving beyond "structural failure" : seeking legal remedies or looking forward -- Framing First Nations education within self-government and self-determination. A "place to stand" -- Policy context : competing discourses and evolution of the policy context of First Nations education. A people in receivership : of treaties, reserves, colonization, and "devolution" ; Devolution debacle : squaring implementation circles ; The First Nations education resource conundrum : evolving funding policies in the context of diseconomies of scale and fragmentation -- Post-secondary education. Federally chartered institutions? ; Post-secondary funding ; RCAP's approach to post-secondary education and funding ; Funding of Aboriginal post-secondary education within relational pluralist assumptions -- Up the down staircase in two dimensions : local, regional, national control and jurisdiction. The current state of provincial and First Nations school ; Disconnected layers governance I : INAC and First Nations ; Disconnected layers of governance II : First Nations aggregation ; First Nations (education) organizations : local, regional, and national ; Education and self-government agreements currently in effect ; Some pervasive policy issues -- Breaking the gridlock: challenges and options. The demographic challenge ; Connecting severed layers of accountability : why accountable, transparent, ethical, and adequately resourced First Nations jurisdiction matters ; Control and aggregation ; Key First Nations taxation issues ; Special education ; Mould-breaking Aboriginal schools ; Overarching lessons from SAEE case studies and Amiskwaciy Academy ; First Nations school boards : or school boards by another name ; Regional and national First Nations aggregate organizations cultural centres ; Enduring problems and worsening paradoxes in native-as-first-language education ; Elders are precious links to the past, not miracle workers ; Urban Aboriginal education revisited -- Values, principles, and ethics, as sine qua non. The nature and importance of ethics ; Ethics and moral objectivity ; Challenges to ethical activity in organizations ; The "white guilt" paradox : empowerment and responsibility or perpetual "fiduciary" victimhood and tutelage? ; The First Nations University of Canada : colliding visions : national university or local fiefdom? ; ethical governance and leadership ; Ethics and "Kymlicka's constraint" in the Canadian Sittlich context -- Vision and purpose : a second sine qua non. Myopia : the self-serve vision : Aboriginal/First Nations education as local fiefdom and cash cow ; Le beau risque : functional national integration ; A plausible vision ; Time to think outside the box and to begin getting out of it. |