Runners in the Gym: Tales of Resistance and Conversion at an Adolescent Treatment Center ...

• Main Author: Halas, Joannie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Journal of Native Education 2021
• Subjects: Metis
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v22i2.195843; https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195843

This article presents the author's interpretation of her own experiences during two years of teaching physical education at an adolescent treatment center school that had a high percentage of Native and Metis students in attendance. Using a variety of fictional writing techniques in a mixed genre format, a series ofself­ relevant stories are strung together in an attempt to construct a meaningful and coherent understanding of the process of learning from and working with troubled youth. Initially, the narrative text was produced as a means to introduce the context of a larger research project investigating the experience of physical ac­tivity for youth at risk. However, as the reflective writing process evolved through experimentation, revision, and the reading of other interpretive educa­tional research texts, a tale of transformation emerged. By situating the reader in the context of the author's lived experience, and blurring the boundaries between literature and science, the author hopes to challenge ... : Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 22 No. 2 (1998) ...