Taking control Power and contradiction in First Nations Adult Education

• Main Author: Haig-Brown, Celia
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Vancouver UBC PR 1995; UBC Press; University of British Columbia Press; University of Washington Press
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Adult Basic Education; Adult Education; Adult education > British Columbia > Vancouver; Adult Students; American Indian Education; British Columbia; Canada Natives; Culturally Relevant Education; Education; Educational Environment; Erwachsenenbildung; Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Indianer; Indians of North America; Indians of North America > Education > British Columbia > Vancouver; Indiens > Amérique du Nord > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Éducation; Interviews; Native Education Centre (Vancouver, B.C.); Native Education Centre (Vancouver, C.-B.); Native Education Centre BC; Politics of Education; Power Structure; Researcher Subject Relationship; Self Determination; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Tribally Controlled Education; Vancouver; Éducation des adultes > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver
• ISBN: 0774804661; 9780774804660; 0774804939; 9780774804936

This book is a critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre (NEC) in Vancouver, British Columbia. It presents an intimate view of the center, focusing on the people that work there--First Nations students, board members, teachers--and revealing their beliefs about First Nations control of edu...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Approaching the Native Education Centre -- 1 The Place -- 2 Power, Culture, and Control -- 3 Doing Ethnography: Socially Constructing Reality -- 4 Historical Fragments: First Nations Control in British Columbia -- 5 Becoming: A History of the Native Education Centre -- Part 2: The Everyday World of Taking Control -- 6 The People and the Place -- 7 The People and the Programs -- 8 Taking Control: What They Said -- Part 3: Forming Knowledge, Creating Discourse -- 9 Contradiction, Power, and Control -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z