Teaching First Nations Children in a Public School
Rude Awakenings of a Black Ghost
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21828972 |
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| Authors | Yvonne Brown (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 47-56 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1916-3460 • E-ISSN: 1916-3460 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18733/cpi29727 |
| OpenAlex | W4404381130 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
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 Columbia. Finally, I pay tribute to three First Nations colleagues, whose innovative, research method of storytelling and life writing, influenced the topic and research methods I subsequently adopted in my doctoral dissertation (2005)
| Highly cited | No |
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