Athabasca University Press: 129 books
by Andreas Schroeder, Don Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build an ocean-going ship in the middle of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. Set during the hardships of the "Dirty Thirties," Dustship Glory presents us with Sukanen's mythic...
Northern Rover: The Life Story of Olaf Hanson
The Life Story of Olaf Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan author A. L. Karras, who wrote this historical memoir in the 1980s. In an uncompromising, straightforward...
by Arthur Bear Chief, Frits Pannekoek, Judy Bedford
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Arthur Bear Chief suffered both sexual and psychological abuse during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation. My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell is a of chronological vignettes that depict the punishment, cruelty, and injustice that Arthur endured at Old Sun...
We Are Coming Home
Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
A one-stop knowledge resource, Emerging Technologies in Distance Education showcases the international work of research scholars and innovative distance education practitioners who use emerging interactive technologies for teaching and learning at a distance.This widely anticipated book harnesses...
From Bricks to Brains
The Embodied Cognitive Science of Lego Robots
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots.Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains...
Icon, Brand, Myth
The Calgary Stampede
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
An investigation of the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1923, archetypal “Cowboys and Indians” are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection...
Teaching Crowds
Learning and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts,...
How Canadians Communicate VI
Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Food nourishes the body, but our relationship with food extends far beyond our need for survival. Food choices not only express our personal tastes but also communicate a range of beliefs, values, affiliations and aspirations—sometimes to the exclusion of others. In the media sphere, the enormous...
Living on the Land
Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privilege...
Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path
Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Trail of Story examines the meaning of landscape, drawn from Leslie Main Johnson’s rich experience with diverse environments and peoples, including the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en of northwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dene of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich’in of the Mackenzie Delta.With...
by Elizabeth Burge, Chère Campbell Gibson, Terry Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Flexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often taken-for-granted assumptions that inform daily practice and examines the institutional dynamics that help and hinder...
Sociocultural Systems
Principles of Structure and Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Macrosociology—the study of large-scale social structures and the fundamental principles of social organization—was the style of sociology practiced by the founders of the discipline. Today, the social theories of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, and Herbert Spencer (among others) are commonly...
How Canadians Communicate V
Sports
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Fewer Canadians than ever are lacing up skates, swimming lengths at the pool, practicing their curve ball, and experiencing the thrill of competition. However, despite a decline in active participation, Canadians spend enormous amounts of time and money on sports, as fans and followers of sporting...