Moving Forward, Giving Back

Jim Silver is a professor emeritus at the University of Winnipeg and a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba. He has published extensively on poverty and poverty-related issues — for example, social housing, street gangs, community development, and adult basic education.

• : About the Authors: Aboriginal Adult Education: Combating Poverty and Colonization (Jim Silver): Circles of Healing and Transformation: Aboriginal Women and Adult Education (Claudette Michell, with Mearle Chief, Deborah Diubaldo, Darlene Klyne, Wendy McNab & Linda Smith): We Are the Agents of Change: Thoughts on Aboriginal Adult Education (Larry Morrissette): Tools for Building Our Freedom (Myra Laramee): Healing the Spirit First: Aboriginal Second Chance Learners in Three Inner City Programs (Shauna MacKinnon): It’s the wec Way: Transformative Social Work Education (Kim Clare): To Walk in Both Worlds: Ma Mawi Goes to University (Jim Silver, Claudette Michell, & Judith Harris): “Getting on the bus”: Reflections on the First Cohort of a Transition to University Program (Denise MacDonald): Sharing Our Life Stories: Transformative Writing and Learning (Diane Kristjannson): Adult Education as Community Development: The Case of Lord Selkirk Park (Jim Silver): Notes: References: Index

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