Warrior Women: Remaking Post-Secondary Places Through Relational Narrative Inquiry (Advances in Research on Teaching, 17) - Hardcover

Mary Isabelle Young

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781902348 ISBN 13: 9781781902349

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2012

Synopsis

This long-term relational narrative inquiry was shaped in the meeting of the lives of six Aboriginal teachers, two Elders, and two teacher educators across two Canadian provinces. There remains a shortage of qualified teachers of Aboriginal heritage in Canada. The book addresses questions about the experiences of Aboriginal students in becoming teachers.

'Warrior Women' makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic, and spiritual rights of Aboriginal people. Attending to these narrative reverberations foregrounded the continuing colonial barriers faced by six Aboriginal post secondary students as they composed their lives in a current era of increasing standardization in Canadian universities and schools. Yet, what also became visible were ways in which the Aboriginal teachers increasingly reclaimed or drew upon their ancestral ways of knowing and being. In this retelling and reliving of their stories to live by (Connelly & Clandinin, 1999) the teachers were composing counter stories (Lindemann Nelson, 1995). While they wakefully composed and lived out these counter stories with intentions of interrupting dominant social, cultural, and institutional narratives they were, at the same time, alongside children, youth, grandchildren, family members, community members, Elders, and colleagues with whom they interacted, co-composing new possible intergenerational narrative reverberations. These new possible intergenerational narrative reverberations carry significant potential to reshape the future life possibilities of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children, youth, families, and communities in Canada; they also carry significant potential to reshape the school and post secondary places experienced by future generations of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal post secondary students.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Isabelle Young - University of Winnipeg, Canada

Review:

In poem and prose, ten Aboriginal Canadian women recount their post-secondary education experiences as they studied to become teachers. Among their perspectives are storied experiences shaping the stories we live by, co-composing relational narrative inquiry, reclaiming and maintaining our Aboriginal ancestry, counterstories as shaping new curriculum-making possibilities, being included in and balancing the complexities of becoming an Aboriginal teacher, and sharing our forward-looking stories. There is no index. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Book News Inc. Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1781902348
• ISBN 13: 9781781902349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Mary Isabelle Young, Lucy Joe, Jennifer Lamoureux