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Author Kirkness, Verna J., author.

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

Publication Info. Winnipeg [Manitoba] : University of Manitoba Press, [2013]
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 196 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Kirkness, Verna J.
Indian educators -- Canada -- Biography.
Indian educators.
Canada.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Aboriginal Canadian teachers -- Biography.
Native peoples -- Education -- Canada -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Creating space. (CaOONL)20139034994
ISBN 9780887554445 (electronic book)
088755444X (electronic book)
088755444X
9780887554452
0887554458
0887557430
9780887557439
9781306203302
1306203309