search : contact us : about us : site guide : home
  University of British Columbia Press
 Search Our Catalogue
  search by subject

 UBC Press
About UBC Press
Acknowledgements
Conferences & Events
Contact Us
Media Centre
Publishing With UBC Press
Publishers Represented
Staff Directory

 Books
Awards
Catalogues
Forthcoming Titles
How To Order
Recent Reviews
Review Copies
Series

 Join Our Mailing List
Sign Up
Privacy Statement

 ubcpress.ca
About ubcpress.ca
Frequent Questions
Privacy Statement
Site Guide
Website Feedback

 Featured Title
.
Braiding Histories
Learning from Aboriginal Peoples' Experiences and Perspectives
Susan Dion  

$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 12/20/2008
ISBN: 9780774815178    


$34.95 Paperback
Release Date: 7/1/2009
ISBN: 9780774815185    
240 Pages


OTHER WAYS TO ORDER
About the Book

This book proposes a new pedagogy for addressing Aboriginal subject material, shifting the focus from an essentializing or "othering" exploration of the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on historical experiences that inform our understanding of contemporary relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples.

Reflecting on the process of writing a series of stories, Dion takes up questions of (re)presenting the lived experiences of Aboriginal people in the service of pedagogy. Investigating what happened when the stories were taken up in history classrooms, she illustrates how our investments in particular identities structure how we hear and what we are "willing to know."

Braiding Histories illuminates the challenges of speaking/listening and writing/reading across cultural boundaries as an Aboriginal person to communicate Aboriginal experience through education. It will be useful to teachers and students of educational and Native studies and will appeal to readers seeking a better understanding of colonialism and Aboriginal--non-Aboriginal relations.

About the Author(s)

Susan D. Dion is a professor in the Faculty of Education at York University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Historical Amnesia and the Discourse of the Romantic, Mythical Other
2 Listen Again and I’ll (Re)tell You a Story
3 Listening -- But What Is Being Heard?
4 The Braiding Histories Project
5 "Her Solitary Place": Teaching and Learning from Shanawdithit’s Story
6 "We Wanted to Hear Your Stories": Teaching and Learning from Audrey’s Story
7 Disrupting Moulded Images

Appendix A: The Braiding Histories Stories as Distributed for Classroom Use
Appendix B: Initial Teacher Interview Questions
Appendix C: Planning-Session Agendas and Discussion Questions
Notes
References
Index

Reviews

Sample Chapter

Front Matter and Chapter One

Related Topics

Native Studies
Education

Other Ways To Order

In Canada, order your copy of Braiding Histories from UTP Distribution at:

UTP Distribution
5201 Dufferin Street
Toronto, Ontario
M3H 5T8

Phone orders: 1(800)565-9523 or (416)667-7791
Fax orders: 1(800)221-9985 or (416)667-7832
Email: utpbooks@utpress.utoronto.ca

Ordering information for customers outside Canada


© 2001 UBC Press
2029 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z2
t. 604.822.5959 | f. 604.822.6083 | e. frontdesk@ubcpress.ca