Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education - Softcover

Cote-Meek, Sheila

 
9781552666531: Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1552666530 ISBN 13: 9781552666531
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

In Colonized Classrooms, Sheila Cote-Meek discusses how Aboriginal students confront narratives of colonial violence in the postsecondary classroom, while they are, at the same time, living and experiencing colonial violence on a daily basis. Basing her analysis on interviews with Aboriginal students, Cote-Meek deftly illustrates how colonization and its violence are not a distant experience, but one that is being negotiated every day in universities and colleges across Canada. Cote-Meek traces how education for Aboriginal peoples has been, and continues to be, part of the colonial regime, which is marked by violence, abuses and poverty, and the ways this violence is experienced particularly by Aboriginal students and professors in universities. Drawing upon personal experience and qualitative research, the book essentially explores two questions: how do Aboriginal students confront curriculum on colonial history that is marked by violence? And what pedagogies might be useful in postsecondary classrooms for students that have suffered from colonial violence?

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About the Author

Sheila Cote-Meek is an Anishnaabe-Kwe from the Teme-Augama Anishnabai. She is Associate Vice President of Academic and Indigenous Programs as well as a professor in the School of Indigenous Relations at Laurentian University.

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Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1552666530
ISBN 13 
9781552666531
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
198