Taking Control
Power and Contradiction in First Nations Adult Education
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774842488
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $32.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774804936
- Publish Date
- Jan 1995
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774804660
- Publish Date
- Feb 1995
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Taking Control is a critical ethnography of the Native Education Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia. It presents an intimate view of the centre, focusing on the ways that people who work there – First Nations students, board members, teachers, and non-Native teachers – talk about and put into practice their beliefs about First Nations control. As Michael Apple comments in the preface, their stories “provide concrete evidence of what can be accomplished when the complicated politics of education is taken seriously.”
About the author
Celia Haig-Brown is an educator and the author of the 1988 Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School, winner of the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prizes). The book will be published in a new edition in fall 2022 as Tsqelmucwilc: The Kamloops Indian Residential SchoolâResistance and a Reckoning. Her other books include Taking Control: Power and Contradiction and With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada (both UBC Press). Recently, she has turned to documentary film and has been shown at the Smithsonian Film Festival in New York and the Irving International Film Festival in California.
Editorial Reviews
Haig-Brown presents her research in a manner that demonstrates honour and commitment to those efforts.
Canadian Journal of Education
This book provides a comprehensive picture of an institution devoted to community-based adult education that will add depth to the shorter accounts. Such interdisciplinary work, combining history, ethnography, and education, is sorely needed in rethinking those institutions.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Other titles by
Tsqelmucwilc
The Kamloops Indian Residential School - Resistance and a Reckoning
With Good Intentions
Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada
Making the Spirit Dance Within
Joe Duquette High School and an Aboriginal Community
Resistance and Renewal
Surviving the Indian Residential School