Fyre Jean Graveline
- Affiliation: Acadia University
Dr. Fyre Jean Graveline is a Métis (Cree) who has worked in education and social work for the last twenty-five years, consistently challenging individuals and organizations to examine their oppressive, eurocentric, patriarchal attitudes and practices. She is the author of Circle Works: Transforming Eurocentric Consciousness.
Books by Fyre Jean Graveline
Healing Wounded Hearts
Fyre Jean Graveline
Healing Wounded Hearts brings together stories, poems and artwork that illustrate the struggles and strengths that Fyre Jean has, as a Métis Woman, living everyday in intersecting, parallel, sometimes colliding, socio-cultural realities. Baring her Heart and Soul, she shares personal, painful, spiritual discoveries of how life and worlds work, through Stories that have grown her into who she is. Through a blend of original research, reflective journals and creative use of dialogue, people… (more information)
Circleworks
Transforming Eurocentric Conciousness
Fyre Jean Graveline
This book is intended to contribute to both the theoretical debate and classroom practice in the field of education. It explores the legitimacy of Aboriginal, holistic paradigms within some of the diverse frameworks available to educators: experiential learning, feminist and anti-racist pedagogies are emphasized. It documents an effort to interrupt current Aboriginal/European power relations by evolving an alternative Aboriginal teaching model and enacting it within university classrooms. This work… (more information)