Finding Healing and Balance in Learning and Teaching at the First Nations University of Canada
In this personal memoir of three years teaching at the First Nations University of Canada, the author reflects on what she learned, in applying internally and externally, an Aboriginal model of social work education. As a person of non-Aboriginal ancestry, she explores how her own struggle with the i...
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fterudit:oai:erudit.org:1069369ar 2023-05-15T16:15:08+02:00 Finding Healing and Balance in Learning and Teaching at the First Nations University of Canada Faith, Erika 2007 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1069369ar https://doi.org/10.7202/1069369ar en eng First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada Érudit First Peoples Child & Family Review : A Journal on Innovation and Best Practices in Aboriginal Child Welfare Administration, Research, Policy & Practice vol. 3 no. 4 (2007) http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1069369ar doi:10.7202/1069369ar Copyright ©, 2007ErikaFaith text 2007 fterudit https://doi.org/10.7202/1069369ar 2020-06-06T23:10:33Z In this personal memoir of three years teaching at the First Nations University of Canada, the author reflects on what she learned, in applying internally and externally, an Aboriginal model of social work education. As a person of non-Aboriginal ancestry, she explores how her own struggle with the imbalances inherent in academia spurred her search in grounding her teaching in holism, healing, reciprocal relationships, empowerment, liberation, and pleasure, and how the integration of these practices strengthened her relationships with her own spirit, but also with ‘all my relations’. Text First Nations Érudit.org (Université Montréal) Canada First Peoples Child & Family Review 3 4 8 12 |
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In this personal memoir of three years teaching at the First Nations University of Canada, the author reflects on what she learned, in applying internally and externally, an Aboriginal model of social work education. As a person of non-Aboriginal ancestry, she explores how her own struggle with the imbalances inherent in academia spurred her search in grounding her teaching in holism, healing, reciprocal relationships, empowerment, liberation, and pleasure, and how the integration of these practices strengthened her relationships with her own spirit, but also with ‘all my relations’. |
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