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Rural Transformation and Newfoundland and Labrador Diaspora

Grandparents, Grandparenting, Community and School Relations

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Amarjit Singh

    1. Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada

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  2. Mike Devine

    1. Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS)

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Table of contents (36 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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    1. Introduction

      • Amarjit Singh, Mike Devine
      Pages 1-39

  3. Place, Diaspora, Nostalgia, Hope, and Possibilities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Rural Newfoundland and Labrador

      • Rob Greenwood
      Pages 43-54

    3. Memoirs from Away, a New Found Land Girlhood (An Excerpt)

      • Helen M. Buss
      Pages 55-70

    4. Remittance, the New Way to Work in Newfoundland and Labrador

      • David Baldwin
      Pages 71-77

    5. Alberta’s Oil Sand Workers and the Role of Grandparents

      • Alison George
      Pages 79-82

  4. Sense of Community and Community Profiles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Prominence of Grandparents

      • Anne Marie Freake
      Pages 85-90

    3. The Role of Grandparents in the Development of Community

      • Ashley Curnew
      Pages 91-99

    4. Goat Island

      • Crystal Fitzpatrick
      Pages 101-107

    5. The Influence of Grandparents Within Families and Communities

      • Heather Smart
      Pages 109-115

    6. A Grandmother’s Contribution to Community & Community Culture

      • Jenine Bateman
      Pages 117-123

    7. Grandparents as Contributors to Community and Community Culture

      • Natasha Spurrell
      Pages 125-131

    8. Nan “M” about Churchville

      • Jody Morrison
      Pages 133-138

    9. Grandparents and Community

      • Nadine Vater
      Pages 139-146

    10. The Role of Grandparenting

      • Sacha Anderson
      Pages 147-153

  5. Voices of Grandparents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
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    2. Newfoundland and Labrador Diaspora

      • Linda Coles
      Pages 157-175

    3. Parenting Two Generations

      • Pauline Lake, Marlene George
      Pages 177-186
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About this book

This book is endorsed by Dr. Clar Doyle in his preface to this book. Dr. Doyle is very well known locally. This book is about the contemporary life of grandparents in Newfoundland and Labrador – a geographically isolated and culturally unique rural region of Canada. The book can be used for courses in the areas of critical social work, family studies, gerontology, nursing, rural development, critical pedagogy, and diaspora studies. Clar Doyle, Professor of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and member of the Founding Scholars Advisory Board, The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy. “This book offers a platform not only to look in on the lives of vital grandparents but paints, in broad strokes, a mural of coming, changing, as well as challenging cultural and social settings…. In what the astute editors ….call “small nuanced studies” we find telling narratives of generational connections in the face of changing and challenging odds….This book does a great service to the concept of diaspora, as well as to the changing nature of that concept… This book elevates the status of grandparents by positioning them as vital members of a complex and challenging society where their skills, gifts, and sheer presence are most formative…. As is strongly advocated in this book, it is essential that educators, curriculum developers, and teachers appreciate the place of grandparents in their students’ lives.”

Editors and Affiliations

  • Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada

    Amarjit Singh, Mike Devine

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rural Transformation and Newfoundland and Labrador Diaspora

  • Book Subtitle: Grandparents, Grandparenting, Community and School Relations

  • Editors: Amarjit Singh, Mike Devine

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-302-7

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-302-7Published: 08 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 436

  • Topics: Education, general

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