Gifted to learn / Gloria Mehlmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mehlmann, Gloria, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mehlmann, Gloria, 1941-.

Mehlmann, Gloria.

Indians of North America--Education--Saskatchewan.

Indians of North America.

Educational change--Saskatchewan.

Educational change.

Indian educators--Saskatchewan--Biography.

Indian educators.

Indian women--Saskatchewan--Biography.

Indian women.

Indians of North America--Education.

Saskatchewan.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 325 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2008.

Summary:

This account is of a Cree/Saulteaux woman's twenty-year career as a public school teacher beginning in 1960s Regina, when discrimination and other abuses often went unchallenged, and the education system was starving for visionary reform. Gloria Mehlmann shares her challenges and transformations amid the vivid tapestry of students she taught and who ultimately taught her. Devotees and specialists of memoir, Native Studies, Education, and Women's Studies will want to immerse themselves in these pages. Critical yet uplifting, the strong prose of Gifted to Learn reveals another of Mehlmann's talents-she is a first-rate storyteller.

Contents:

1 If It Were Up to Me 1

2 Disguised in the Open Field 23

3 A Survival Kit of One's Own 31

4 Sink or Swim in a Common Flood 51

5 Look at Me 63

6 One Day Soon the Lion and Lamb 87

7 There's Got to be a Pony in There Somewhere 119

8 Captive to the Manner 143

9 Will I be Me When I Get There? 155

10 Judging the Pendulum's Momentum 167

11 True North, Due South, and No Compass 195

12 A Way to the Clearing Imagined 227

13 Raising the Bar 241

14 Innocence I can No Longer Claim 281

15 This Will Force Us to Think 297

Appendix A Note on Isabel Andrews 321.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 325).

ISBN:

9780888644985

0888644981

OCLC:

191753818