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Direct linkGeorgina Martin – University of British Columbia Press, 2024
What does it mean to be Secwepemc? And how can an autobiographical journey to recover Secwepemc identity inform teaching and learning? "Drumming Our Way Home" demonstrates how telling, retelling, and re-storying lived experiences not only passes on traditional ways but also opens up a world of culture-based learning. Georgina Martin was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Personnel
Capitaine, Brieg, Ed.; Vanthuyne, Karine, Ed. – University of British Columbia Press, 2017
"Power through Testimony" documents how survivors are remembering and reframing our understanding of residential schools in the wake of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a forum for survivors, families, and communities to share their memories and stories with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Indigenous Knowledge, Residential Schools
Hillock, Susan, Ed.; Mulé, Nick J., Ed. – University of British Columbia Press, 2016
Until now there has been a systemic failure within social work education to address the unique experiences and concerns of LGBTQ individuals and communities. "Queering Social Work Education", the first book of its kind in North America, responds to the need for theoretically informed, inclusive, and sensitive approaches in social work…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Social Work, Caseworkers, Professional Education
Chambers, Cynthia M., Ed.; Hasebe-Ludt, Erika, Ed.; Leggo, Carl, Ed.; Sinner, Anita, Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
This anthology explores life writing as a mode of educational inquiry, one where students and teachers may get a "heart of wisdom" as they struggle with the tensions and complexities of learning and teaching in challenging contemporary circumstances. Contributors write first-person creative non-fiction in a variety of life-writing…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Personal Narratives, Nonfiction, Creative Writing
Weinstein, Lee, Ed. – 2002
This book presents the lives, stories, and photographs of Canadian adults who are literacy learners. Each of the seven features in the book tells one aspect of Canada's literacy story. "Orval: The Stories of Orval Daugherty," includes: "Time is Short" (Bounchanh Chanthavimone); "Flash Back" (Wendi Rooks); "The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Guides
Calam, John, Ed. – 1991
Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia (Canada) schools, shares in these recollections of his experiences in a province barely out of the stagecoach era. Traveling through vast northern territory, using unreliable transportation, and enduring climate extremes, Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, North American History
Knockwood, Isabelle; Thomas, Gillian – 1992
The Indian Residential School in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, was established by the Canadian government in 1929 to provide residential education to orphan, destitute, neglected, and other Mi'kmaw Indian children aged 7-16. Since many Indian parents were poor and unable to provide for their children, they felt the school was a chance for their…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools, Canada Natives
Miller, John P.; And Others – 1990
The aim and focus of holistic learning is making connections, e.g., connections between subjects or between thinking and intuition. Integrated studies implies a holistic approach to learning and a curriculum that has the capacity to combine three positions on the function of schooling: transmission of facts, skills, and values; transaction or…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach
Johnston, Basil H. – 1989
This autobiography relates the experiences of a young Ojibway boy who was taken from his family in 1939 at age 10 and placed in a Jesuit boarding school in northern Ontario, Canada. St. Peter Claver (later Garnier) or "Spanish," as the Indian school was known, was home to approximately 135 boys. Most of the students, who ranged in age…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Autobiographies, Boarding Schools
Minde, Emma; Ahenakew, Freda, Ed.; Wolfart, H. C., Ed. – 1997
Emma Minde (nee Memnook)was born in 1907 in Saddle Lake, Alberta. In 1927 she was given by her father in an arranged marriage to Joe Minde, who lived in Hobbema, Alberta. In this recorded autobiography taped in 1988 when she was 81 years old, little is said about her parents and her life as a child other than that she spent 7 years at a…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History
Trifonas, Peter – Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
This book looks at the implications of educational practices in communities that are differentiated by issues of language, culture, and technology. Trifonas argues that a "community" is at once a gathering of like-minded individuals in solidarity of purpose and conviction, and also a gathering that excludes others. The chapters in this…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Critical Theory
Fournier, Suzanne; Crey, Ernie – 1997
A deliberate policy to separate and forcibly assimilate Aboriginal First Nations children into the mainstream has pervaded every era of Aboriginal history in Canada. Each era saw a new reason to take Aboriginal children away from their homes, placing them in residential schools, foster care, or non-Aboriginal adoptive families. In the words of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools
Vandall, Peter; Douquette, Joe – 1987
The ten stories in this book were told by Cree storytellers Peter Vandall and Joe Douquette and recorded at the Saskatchewan Indian Cultural College in Saskatoon in 1982. Each story is written in Cree text, transcribed into phonetic Cree, and translated into English. All the stories were told together as parts of a single performance, each speaker…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, American Indian Studies
Tompkins, Joanne – 1998
In 1987, the author accepted the position of principal/program-support teacher in the Inuit community of Anurapaktuq in the Baffin Island region of Nunavut, Canada. In the 4 years she spent there, positive changes occurred in the K-9 school and community. This book recounts how and why this was achieved. Chapter 1 describes the psychological…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Canada Natives
