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

Author: Kirkness, Verna J., 1935-
Published: Winnipeg [Manitoba] : University of Manitoba Press, [2013]
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations

Access Online

ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu

Availability

Finding items...

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.

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.

Subject(s)

Genre(s)

ISBN

9780887554445 (electronic bk.)
088755444X (electronic bk.)
9780887554452
0887554458
0887557430
9780887557439
9781306203302
1306203309
088755444X

Digital File Characteristics

data file

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography Note

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

View MARC record | catkey: 43174874