Yvonne Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yvonne Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yvonne |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Teaching First Nations Children in a Public School
This essay shares some episodes of rude awakenings and epiphanies that I experienced during my time teaching English to First Nations children, in Lytton, BC. In the essay, I map the contexts for my rude awakenings and epiphanies, and explain my miseducation in the British colony of Jamaica in the 1950s and early 1960s. As importantly, I show how my post-secondary education followed the same “civilizing mission” at The University of British Colum…
Ghosts in the Canadian Multicultural Machine
The author, who is an African Canadian, was a beneficiary of the 1967 Immigration and Manpower Act. She embraced the Canadian Multicultural Policy and subsequent Multiculturalism Act and its programs as means to validate the identities and cultures of Black people. She tells a tale of her disillusionment and how multiculturalism has concealed the brutal histories of enslavement, colonization, and empire. She uses the metaphor of ghosts to describ…
Perinatal loss
Perinatal death is a crisis for women and their families. By using a conceptual framework to guide care, caregivers can facilitate grief and help the healing process. The framework described in this article is centered on the key concept of meaning or significance of the loss to the woman, her partner, family, friends, community, and society. The loss may encompass many meanings, and the meanings may differ from person to person. Sociocultural, s…
Female circumcision/genital mutilation
The ancient ritual of female circumcision/genital mutilation is still a prevalent custom in some African countries. Because of increasing immigration of African families to Western nations, the practice has become an issue for health care providers, who may not be aware of the practice and its sequelae. Using a questionnaire administered by our Somalian research associate, we surveyed women in schools of nursing and education in Somalia, identify…
Exposure to dissent and recall of information
Recent work on minority influence has led to a debate about whether majorities and minorities exercise different forms of influence.Nemeth (1986) has argued that consistent minorities induce different cognitive processes than do consistent majorities, with a resulting impact on the quality of the judgments rendered.Two experiments test this theory.In Experiment 1, Ss heard 3 tape-recorded lists of words and learned that either a minority or a maj…
Exposure to dissent and recall of information
Recent work on minority influence has led to a debate about whether majorities and minorities exercise different forms of influence.Nemeth (1986) has argued that consistent minorities induce different cognitive processes than do consistent majorities, with a resulting impact on the quality of the judgments rendered.Two experiments test this theory.In Experiment 1, Ss heard 3 tape-recorded lists of words and learned that either a minority or a maj…
Exposure to dissent and recall of information
Recent work on minority influence has led to a debate about whether majorities and minorities exercise different forms of influence.Nemeth (1986) has argued that consistent minorities induce different cognitive processes than do consistent majorities, with a resulting impact on the quality of the judgments rendered.Two experiments test this theory.In Experiment 1, Ss heard 3 tape-recorded lists of words and learned that either a minority or a maj…
Perinatal loss
Perinatal death is a crisis for women and their families. By using a conceptual framework to guide care, caregivers can facilitate grief and help the healing process. The framework described in this article is centered on the key concept of meaning or significance of the loss to the woman, her partner, family, friends, community, and society. The loss may encompass many meanings, and the meanings may differ from person to person. Sociocultural, s…
Female circumcision/genital mutilation
The ancient ritual of female circumcision/genital mutilation is still a prevalent custom in some African countries. Because of increasing immigration of African families to Western nations, the practice has become an issue for health care providers, who may not be aware of the practice and its sequelae. Using a questionnaire administered by our Somalian research associate, we surveyed women in schools of nursing and education in Somalia, identify…
Ghosts in the Canadian Multicultural Machine
The author, who is an African Canadian, was a beneficiary of the 1967 Immigration and Manpower Act. She embraced the Canadian Multicultural Policy and subsequent Multiculturalism Act and its programs as means to validate the identities and cultures of Black people. She tells a tale of her disillusionment and how multiculturalism has concealed the brutal histories of enslavement, colonization, and empire. She uses the metaphor of ghosts to describ…
Teaching First Nations Children in a Public School
This essay shares some episodes of rude awakenings and epiphanies that I experienced during my time teaching English to First Nations children, in Lytton, BC. In the essay, I map the contexts for my rude awakenings and epiphanies, and explain my miseducation in the British colony of Jamaica in the 1950s and early 1960s. As importantly, I show how my post-secondary education followed the same “civilizing mission” at The University of British Colum…
Psychology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)