Journey to the honour song: stories of first nations student success

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dc.contributor.advisorDePass, Cecille
dc.contributor.authorDobson, Margaret A.E.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-18T22:36:15Z
dc.date.available2017-12-18T22:36:15Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 313-333en
dc.description.abstractThe 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 students who taught me about their experience in my capacity as educator and university programme co-ordinator/instructor between 1984- 2005. Beginning with a conventional Euro-Canadian thesis format, the study, moves across knowledge cultures to weave First Nations myth, legend, poetry and song with contemporary fictionalized accounts of the experiences of Aboriginal students in post­secondary learning settings. Embedded in the stories is information that may relate to educational processes such as admissions, or course selection, and to more personal and learning matters such as motivation, First Nations history, acquiring success and the esoteric of power. The stories highlight the perspectives of First Nations students on the interactions between their cultural paradigms and academics. The empowering stories of university success carry the potential to inspire, to teach, to create change and promote healing for prospective First Nations students and educators who work beside them.
dc.format.extentxvi, 333 leaves ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier.citationDobson, M. A. (2012). Journey to the honour song: stories of first nations student success (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4998en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/4998
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/105999
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
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dc.titleJourney to the honour song: stories of first nations student success
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEducational Research
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 2106 627942976
ucalgary.thesis.notesUARCen
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