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Creating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
There is no such thing as Indigenous education. There is only cross-cultural education containing negotiations between both Indigenous people and the settler societies that colonized them. Understanding the past is essential, but even if we...
| Page(s) 167-70
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Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education
This collection of essays is edited by Sara Burke, a historian, and Patrick Milewski, a sociologist and former elementary school teacher, at Laurentian University. The title, Schooling in Transition, reflects the editors’ belief that public...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 165-67
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Learning and Teaching Together: Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
Students must become aware of how ambition, self-gratification, power, and control as purposes for learning are forms of self-deception that must be avoided because they lead eventually to the misuse of knowledge and the further...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 152-153
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What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools.
The impetus for What We Learned, a collaborative book written by Helen Raptis and twelve members of the Tsimshian Nation, was Raptis’s archival discovery of a 1947 class list from the Port Essington Indian Day...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 217-218
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The Education of an Innocent: An Autobiography by E.R. “Ernie” Forbes
Why should BC Studies review the autobiography of E.R. “Ernie” Forbes, a leading historian of Maritime Canada? The answer is that several years in Victoria helped him to confirm his ideas about the importance of...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 193-94
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Indian Education in Canada. Volume 1: The Legacy
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 74, Summer 1987
BC Studies no. 74 Summer 1987 | Page(s) 40-1
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School Wars – The Assault on B.C. Education
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 73, Spring 1987
BC Studies no. 73 Spring 1987 | Page(s) 71-4
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The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 46, Summer 1980
BC Studies no. 46 Summer 1980 | Page(s) 91-6
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The Principal’s Office – And Beyond, Volumes 1 (1849-1960) and Volume 2 (1961-2005)
This study considers the development of public education in British Columbia mainly from the perspective of school principals. The author is a prominent scholar in the field of education history and a provocative critic of...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 164-5
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The Ones Who Have to Pay: The Soldiers-Poets of Victoria BC in the Great War 1914-1918
Robert Ratcliffe Taylor’s study of the soldier-poets of the First World War is useful for scholarship and is approachable by a casual reader. Although the tone of this review must be critical, the utility and...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 208-209
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Health and Aging in British Columbia: Vulnerability and Resilience
Health and Aging in British Columbia: Vulnerability and Resilience, edited by Denise Cloutier-Fisher, Leslie T. Foster and David Hultsch, is a collection of 17 chapters on health and aging in British Columbia prepared by 30...
BC Studies no. 173 Spring 2012 | Page(s) 163-64
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Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation
Rarely does a book cover depict a Canadian athlete with claims to a major role in academic life and advocacy politics, but this is no ordinary cover. The front of Playing for Change depicts young Bruce Kidd,...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 238-239
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Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University
When Simon Fraser University (SFU) opened in the fall of 1965, the registrar locked himself in his office and refused to answer the phone. A group of department heads, who later entered the office, found...
BC Studies no. 148 Winter 2005-2006 | Page(s) 109-11
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The Hundred-Year Trek: A History of Student Life at UBC
To borrow an old joke, institutional histories can often be the sofa beds of historical writing. Neither good as a sofa nor as a bed, institutional histories can often find themselves trapped between academic and...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 224-225
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The Amazing Mazie Baker: The Squamish Nation’s Warrior Elder
I grew up ten minutes away from Eslha7án, the Mission Indian Reserve, in what is today known as North Vancouver, which is part of the territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw or Squamish Nation. Yet I...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 156-158
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American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941
THIS IS AN AMBITIOUS bookthat aims to “recontextualize, if not challenge” (9) several standard historical narratives: of the American West, of Asian American settlement, and of Filipino experiences in the United States in the early...
BC Studies no. 141 Spring 2004 | Page(s) 130-1
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The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volumes 1-6
A portion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) mandate laid out in Schedule N to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement [IRSSA] of 2006 said that the Commission was to “Produce and submit to...
BC Studies no. 191 Autumn 2016 | Page(s) 169-175
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UBC: The First 100 Years
With its heavy glossy paper, large format, and copious illustrations, this looks like a celebratory coffee table book. To classify it as such would be wrong. Drawing on previous histories of the University of British...
BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | Page(s) 109-11
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Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University
This fine piece of work provides new insights into the way the nature and culture of life in Canadian universities changed during the first sixty years of the twentieth century. Based on a careful review...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 149-150
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One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests
One Step Over the Line is the second published collection of papers drawn from a conference held at the University of Calgary in 2002 (the first, Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History, was...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 127-30
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The Last Best West: An Exploration of Myth, Identity and Quality of Life in Western Canada
The Last Best West is an eclectic collection of chapters based loosely on the meaning and mythology of the advertising slogan used by the Canadian government around the turn of the twentieth century to attract...
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