Creating Space
Subtitle: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780887557439
Subjects: Indigenous peoples, canada; Educators, canada; Canada, biography; Teachers, biography
Description: 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.