Braiding histories :

"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 take up questions of (re)presenting the lived experiences of Aboriginal people in the service of pedagogy. Investigating what happened when the stories were waken 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." - Provided by publisher

Call Number: 
E78 .C2 D56 2009
Title Responsibility: 
Susan D. Dion.
Author Information: 
Susan Dion is a professor in the Faculty of Education at York University.
Production Place: 
Vancouver :
Producer: 
UBC Press,
Production Date: 
c2009.
Band Tribe Geography Time: 
Multiple Nations
Catalogue Key: 
6757188