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One good book away from becoming a reader: First Nations literature in a northern classroom

Author(s) -

Susan Catlin

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

language and literacy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1496-0974

DOI - 10.20360/g2np4s

Subject(s) - feeling , negotiation , literacy , sociology , media studies , pedagogy , gender studies , history , psychology , social science , social psychology

I arrived in the isolated, northern community of Big River, Northwest Territories on August 17, 1987. I wanted my students to discover the rich world that waited for them in books. It is a curious paradox that one loses oneself in a text, only to find oneself. I wanted my students to find ideas and images for themselves, to extend and challenge their thinking and feeling, and I also hoped that books might provide some comfort on the journey that was negotiating their identities in school.

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