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category: Education
published: Dec 2008
ISBN:9780774815178
publisher: UBC Press

Braiding Histories

Learning from Aboriginal Peoples’ Experiences and Perspectives

by Susan D. Dion

tagged: multicultural education
Description

This book proposes a new pedagogy for addressing Aboriginal subject material, shifting the focus from an essentializing or “othering” exploration of the attributes of Aboriginal peoples to a focus on historical experiences that inform our understanding of contemporary relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. Reflecting on the process of writing a series of stories, Dion takes up questions of (re)presenting the lived experiences of Aboriginal people in the service of pedagogy. Investigating what happened when the stories were taken up in history classrooms, she illustrates how our investments in particular identities structure how we hear and what we are “willing to know.”

About the Author

Susan D. Dion

Contributor Notes

Susan D. Dion is a professor in the Faculty of Education at York University.

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