Journey to the honour song: stories of first nations student success ...
Bibliography: p. 313-333 ... : The study is an interpretive work regarding the cross-cultural and paradigmatic experiences of First Nations students attending and graduating from university. It is an arts based, imaginative and philosophical presentation of clusters of stories concerning the journey...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Calgary
2012
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/4998 https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/105999 |
| Summary: | Bibliography: p. 313-333 ... : The study is an interpretive work regarding the cross-cultural and paradigmatic experiences of First Nations students attending and graduating from university. It is an arts based, imaginative and philosophical presentation of clusters of stories concerning the journey of First Nations students through university when they are expected to conform to Euro-Canadian post-secondary academic culture. The inquiry depicts and evokes the lived experience of successful First Nations graduates through the medium of fictional story. Storytelling is engaged to investigate and celebrate ways of knowing valued by and integral to Aboriginal cultures, and in order to contextualize and convey insights about the journey of First Nations university students in a manner that makes the pathway accessible to future generations. The inquiry results from twenty years of acculturation among First Nations students, learning from, adopting and appropriating many First Nations perspectives and understandings shared by the courageous ... |
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