Name: Horizons North
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Horizons North

Contact, Culture and Education in Canada

Edited By: Sue Matheson

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In Canada’s North, competing cultural paradigms collide. This collection of academic and personal essays investigates Aboriginal justice, challenges of pedagogy, and problems of identity created by Canada’s colonial past, offering insights on social transition.

A frontier place, Canada’s North is an interface in which competing educational, historical, and cultural paradigms collide, intersect, and coalesce. The unique nature of this…

A frontier place, Canada’s North is an interface in which competing educational, historical, and cultural paradigms collide, intersect, and coalesce. The unique nature of this Northern mosaic rests upon the shared experience of social disorientation and culture shock.

A collection of fourteen timely essays that investigate the experience of Canadian culture above the 53rd Parallel, Horizons North is at once academic and personal, analytic and discursive – offering insights on the subject of cultural cringe and social transition to critics, scholars, students and any others interested in Aboriginal and Northern studies. The efficacy of Aboriginal systems of justice, challenges of pedagogy in the North, and problems of identity created by Canada’s colonial past are just three of the important issues investigated in this volume.

John Butler, born in England, and educated there and in Canada, specialises in the intellectual history of the seventeenth century, with a particular interest in travel writing. He has taught at universities in Nigeria, Canada and Japan, and has published several books on Renaissance and Seventeenth–Century Studies. He is an Associate Professor of Humanities at the University College of the North in The Pas, Canada.

Sue Matheson, raised in northern Alberta, specializes in American literature, popular culture and film. She has taught at universities throughout Western Canada and has published in the areas of American Film, American popular culture, Canadian literature, Children’s literature, and Detective Fiction. Sue is an Associate Professor in the Area of Humanities at the University College of the North in The Pas, Canada.

Rose Antsanen, Paul Betts, Harvey Briggs, Carolyn Creed, Brenda Firman, John George Hansen, David King, Terralyn Mckee, Greg Stott, John Butler