Gifted to learn

Type

Book

Authors

Gloria Mehlmann ( Mehlmann, Gloria )

ISBN 10

0888644981

ISBN 13

9780888644985

Tags

Educators, Indigenous Educators -- Saskatchewan -- Biography, Indigenous Women -- Saskatchewan -- Biography, Gloria Mehlmann -- 1941, Indigenous educators, Indigenous women, Saskatchewan

Abstract

"This account is of a Cree/Saulteaux woman's twenty-year career as a public school teacher beginning in 1960s Regina, when discrimination and other abuses often went unchallenged, and the education system was starving for visionary reform. Gloria Mehlmann shares her challenges and transformations amid the vivid tapestry of students she taught and who ultimately taught her. Devotees and specialists of memoir, Native Studies, Education, and Women's Studies will want to immerse themselves in these pages. Critical yet uplifting, the strong prose of Gifted to Learn reveals another of Mehlman's talents - she is a first-rate storyteller."

Biblio Notes

Contents:
1. If It Were Up to Me --
2. Disguised in the Open Field --
3. Survival Kit of One's Own --
4. Sink or Swim in a Common Flood --
5. Look at Me --
6. One Day Soon the Lion and Lamb --
7. There's Got to be a Pony in There Somewhere --
8. Captive to the Manner --
9. Will I be Me When I Get There? --
10. Judging the Pendulum's Momentum --
11. True North, Due South, and No Compass --
12. Way to the Clearing Imagined --
13. Raising the Bar --
14. Innocence I can No Longer Claim --
15. This Will Force Us to Think --
Appendix. Note on Isabel Andrews.

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