Creating space : my life and work in Indigenous education / Verna J. Kirkness.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirkness, Verna J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kirkness, Verna J.

Indian educators--Canada--Biography.

Indian educators.

Indigenous peoples--Education--Canada--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 1980s she became an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia where she was appointed Director of the Native Teacher Education Program, founded the Ts" Kel Graduate Program, and was a driving force behind the creation of the First Nations House of Learning. Honoured by community and country, Kirkness is a visionary who has inspired, and been inspired by, generations of students. Like a long conversation between friends, Creating Space reveals the challenges and misgivings, the burning questions, the successes and failures that have shaped the life of this extraordinary woman and the history of Aboriginal education in Canada."--pub. desc.

Contents:

My family

My teaching career

Working provincially and nationally

The University of British Columbia

Retirement

Leaving Vancouver

Epilogue : Upon reflection

Appendix 1 : Awards and honours

Appendix 2 : Bibliography of selected publications

Appendix 3 : Archival collections at the University of British Columbia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-88755-444-X

OCLC:

860709306