University of British Columbia Press
Taking Control
Power and Contradiction in First Nations Adult Education
9780774804936
9780774804660
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Taking Control
Power and Contradiction in First Nations Adult Education
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.”
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Approaching the Native Education Centre
1 The Place
2 Power, Culture, and Control
3 Doing Ethnography: Socially Constructing Reality
4 Historical Fragments: First Nations Control in British Columbia
5 Becoming: A History of the Native Education Centre
Part 2: the Everyday World of Taking Control
6 The People and the Place
7 The People and the Programs
8 Taking Control: What They Said
Part 3: Forming Knowledge, Creating Discourse
9 Contradiction, Power, and Control
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index