A Symposium on Aboriginal Education

First Edition: The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education, 2003, Winter Issue. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Various sections of this symposium have appeared in Students On The Net (Singapore), canadian content (Canada), The Alberta Teacher's Association Magazine (Canada), The Master Teacher (Canada), and The Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education (USA). Introduction This symposium addresses: the harm the Government of Canada did to Aboriginal culture through the residential school system; the need for consensus between Aboriginal and educational communities with regard to curriculum; the need for noncompetitive, community settings in the classroom; and positive steps made by one school district to create meaningful education for Aboriginal students. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).