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Research Interests

Canadian Educational and Social History
British Columbia History
Aboriginal Schooling
Qualitative Research Methodology

Publications

Books
Refereed Journal Articles
Other Journal Articles
Chapters in Books
Other Publications

BOOKS

Barman, J. Sojourning Sisters:  The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Barman, J.  Constance Lindsay Skinner:  Writing on the Frontier.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Barman, J., McDonald, R.A.J., and Wade, J., ed. British Columbia: Historical Interpretations. Burnaby: Open Learning Agency, 1997.

Barman, J. The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991; paperback, 1993. 429 pp. Revised ed., 1996. 449 pp.

Barman, J., Sutherland, N. and Wilson, J.D., ed. Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia. Calgary: Detselig, 1995. 426 pp.

Battiste, M., and Barman, J., ed. First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995. 355 pp.

Sutherland, N., Barman, J., and Hale, L. Contemporary Canadian Childhood and Youth: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. 486 pp.

Sutherland, N., Barman, J., and Hale, L. History of Canadian Childhood and Youth: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. 492 pp.

Hale, L.L., and Barman, J. British Columbia Local Histories: A Bibliography. Victoria: British Columbia Heritage Trust, 1991. 196 pp.

Barman, J., and McDonald, R.A.J., ed. Readings in the History of British Columbia. Richmond: Open University, 1989. 587 pp.

Barman, J., Hèbert, Y., and McCaskill, D., ed. Indian Education in Canada. Vol. 2: The Challenge Vancouver: UBC Press, 1987. 256 pp.

Barman, J., HÈbert, Y., and McCaskill, D., ed. Indian Education in Canada. Vol. 1: The Legacy. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986. 172 pp.

Sutherland, N., Barman, J., and Strong-Boag, V., ed. A Bibliography of Canadian Childhood: Articles. Vancouver: Canadian Childhood History Project, UBC, 1987. 403 pp.

McDonald, R.A.J., and Barman, J., ed. Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986. 327 pp.

Barman, J. Growing Up British in British Columbia: Boys in Private School. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1984. 259 pp.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Barman J., and Watson, B. "Fort Colville's Fur Trade Families and the Dynamics of Aboriginal Racial Intermixture in the Pacific Northwest,"Pacific Northwest Quarterly 90,3 (Summer 1999), 140-53.

Barman, J.  "What a Difference a Border Makes:  Aboriginal Racial Intermixture in the Pacific Northwest," Journal of the West 38,3 (July 1999), 14-20.

Barman, J. "Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900," BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 115-16 (Fall-Winter 1997-98). Barman, J. "New Land, New Lives: Hawaiian Settlement in British Columbia," Hawaiian Journal of History 29 (1996), 1-32.

Barman, J. "Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Marketing of the Western Frontier," in Canadian Papers in Rural History, ed. Donald A. Akenson, vol. 10 (1996), 81-116.

Barman, J., "'Oh, no, it would not be proper to discuss that with you': Reflections on Gender and the Experience of Childhood," Curriculum Inquiry 24, 1 (Spring 1994), 53-67.

Barman, J. "Deprivatizing Private Education: The British Columbia Experience." Canadian Journal of Education 16, 1 (1991), 12-31.

Barman, J. "The West Beyond the West: The Demography of Settlement in British Columbia," special British Columbia issue of Journal of Canadian Studies, ed. by Patricia E. Roy, 25. 3 (Fall 1990), 5-18.

Barman, J. "Birds of Passage or Early Professionals? Teachers in Nineteenth-century British Columbia," Historical Studies in Education 2, 1 (Spring 1990), 17-36.

Barman, J. "'Knowledge is essential for universal progress but fatal to class privilege': Working People and the Schools in Vancouver During the 1920's," Labour/Le travail 22 (Fall 1988), 9-66.

Barman, J. "Skimming Off the Cream: The Social Impact of Private Education in British Columbia, 1900-1950," History of Education Review (Australia) 16, 1 (1987), 51-60.

Barman, J. "The Preparatory School Abroad: From Britain to British Columbia," History of Education (London) 15, 1 (March 1986), 1-9.

Barman, J. "Ethnicity in the Pursuit of Status: The Behaviour of British Middle and Upper-Class Emigrants to British Columbia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," Canadian Ethnic Studies 18, 1 (1986), 32-51.

Barman, J. "Neighbourhood and Community in Interwar Vancouver: Residential Differentiation and Civic Voting Behaviour," BC Studies 69-70 (Spring-Summer 1986), 97-141.

OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES

Barman, J. "Seeing British Columbia," BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly 131 (Fall 2001), 9-14.

Barman, J. "Island sanctuaries--Early mixed race settlement on Gabriola and nearby coastal islands," Shale (Gabriola) 2 (March 2001), 1-13.

Barman, J. "British Columbia Needs No History.  Or Does It?" in Mark Forsythe, British Columbia Almanac. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000), 168-72.

Barman, J. "Sex and Violence in the BC Archives:  Adventures in Historical Detection," British Columbia Historical News 34, 1 (Winter 2000/2001), 6-12.

Barman, J. "Family Life at Fort Langley," British Columbia Historical News 32, 4 (Fall 1999), 16-23.

Barman, J. "Vancouver's Forgotten Entrepreneurs:  Women Who Ran Their Own Schools," British Columbia Historical News 31, 4 (Fall 1998),

Barman, J. "Lost Okanagan: In Search of the First Settler Families," Okanagan History 60 (1996), 8-20.

Barman, J. "The Function and Impact of Independent Schools in the British Tradition," Private School Monitor (special issue on Canadian non-public education) 17, 2 (Winter 1996), 13-16.

Barman, J. "Pioneer Teachers of British Columbia," British Columbia Historical News 25,1 (1991-92), 15-18.

Barman, J. "Lost Opportunity: All Hallows School for Indian and White Girls, 1884-1920," British Columbia Historical News 22, 2 (Spring 1989), 6-9.

Barman, J. "Constructing the Historical Ethnography of Childhood Through Oral History," abstract in Resources in Education and available on microfiche and hard copy through ERIC, 1989.

Barman, J. "Accounting for Class and Gender in Retrieving the History of Canadian Childhood," Canadian History of Education Association, Bulletin 5, 2 (1988), 1-27.

Sutherland, N., and Barman, J. "Royal Commission Retrospective," Policy Perspectives 3, 1 (Winter 1988), 6-16.

Barman, J. "Generating Interest in the Past: An Assignment in Canadian Social History," Canadian Historical Association, Newsletter, Autumn 1984, 15-18.

Barman, J. "The Long Edwardian Summer of British Columbia's Gentlemen Farmers," History Today (London) 34 (April 1984), 9-15.

Barman, J. "Marching to Different Drummers: Public Education and Private Schools in British Columbia, 1900-1950," British Columbia Historical News 14, 1 (Fall 1980), 2-11.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Barman J., and Hare, J. "Aboriginal Education:  Is There a Way Ahead?" 331-59 in David Alan Long and Olive Patricia Dickason, ed., Visions of the Heart:  Canadian Aboriginal Issues.   2^nd ed.  Toronto:   Harcourt Canada, 2000.

Barman, J. "Invisible Women:  Aboriginal Mothers and Mixed-Race Daughters in Rural British Columbia," 159-79 in R.W. Sandwell, ed., Beyond the City Limits: Rural History in British Columbia. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999.

Barman, J. "Families vs. Schools: Children of Aboriginal Descent in British Columbia Classrooms of the Late Nineteenth Century," 73-89 in Edgar-Andre Montigny and Lori Chambers, ed., Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1998.

Barman, J. "'I walk my own track in life & no mere male can bump me off it': Constance Lindsay Skinner and the Work of History," in Beverly Boutilier and Alison Prentice, ed., Creating Historical Memory: English-Canadian Women and the Work of History. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997.

Barman, J. "Writing the History of Northern British Columbia," 298-335 in Ken Coats and William Morrison, ed., Historiography of the Provincial Norths. Thunder Bay: Centre for Northern Studies, Lakehead University, 1996.

Barman, J. "Aboriginal Education at the Crossroads: The Legacy of Residential Schools and the Way Ahead," 271-303 in David Alan Long and Olive Patricia Dickason, ed., Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues. Toronto: Harcourt, Brace, 1996.

Barman, J. "Schooled for Inequality: The Education of British Columbia Aboriginal Children," 57-80 in J. Barman, N. Sutherland and J.D. Wilson, ed. Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia. Calgary: Detselig, 1995.

Barman, J. "British Columbia's Pioneer Teachers," 189-208 in J. Barman, N. Sutherland and J.D. Wilson, ed. Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia. Calgary: Detselig, 1995.

Barman, J., "Separate and Unequal: Indian and White Girls at All Hallows School, 18984-1920," revised as 359-74 in J. Barman, N. Sutherland and J.D. Wilson, ed. Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia. Calgary: Detselig, 1995.

Barman, J. "Growing Up British in British Columbia: The Vernon Preparatory School, 1914-1946," revised as 359-74 in J. Barman, N. Sutherland and J.D. Wilson, ed. Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia. Calgary: De tselig, 1995.

Barman, J. "Deprivatizing Private Education: The British Columbia Experience," revised as 393-409 in J. Barman, N. Sutherland and J.D. Wilson, ed. Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia. Calgary: Detselig, 1995. < p> Barman, J., and Sutherland, N. "Royal Commission Per pective," revised as 411-26 in J. Barman, N. Sutherland and J.D. Wilson, ed. Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia . Calgary: Detselig, 1995.

Barman, J. "Reflections on the Role of the School in The Transition to Work in Resource Towns," 10-27 in Rebecca Priegert Coulter and Ivor F. Goodson, ed., Rethinking Vocationalism: whose work/life is it? Toronto: Our Schools/Our Selves, 1993.

Sutherland, N., and Barman, J. "Out of the Shadows: Retrieving the History of Urban Education in Canada," 87-108 in Ronald Goodenow and William Marsden, ed., The City and Education in Four Countries . Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Pre ss, 1992.

Barman, J. "Separate and Unequal: Indian and White Girls in All Hallows School, 1884-1920," 110-31 in Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert and Don McCaskill, ed., Indian Education in Canada . Vol. 1: The Legacy . Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986.

Barman, J. "Transfer, Imposition or Consensus? The Emergence of Educational Structures in Nineteenth-Century British Columbia," 241-64 in Nancy M. Sheehan, J. Donald Wilson and David C. Jones, ed., Schools in the West: Essays in Canadian Educational History . Calgary: Detselig, 1986.

Barman, J. "Neighbourhood and Community in Interwar Vancouver: Residential Differentiation and Civic Voting Behaviour," 97-141 in R.A.J. McDonald and Jean Barman, ed., Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History, Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986. (same as BC Studies article cited above.)

Barman, J. "The World that British Settlers Made: Class, Ethnicity and Private Education in the Okanagan Valley," 600-26 in W. Peter Ward and Robert A.J. McDonald, ed., British Columbia: Historical Readings . Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 198 1.

Barman, J. "Growing Up British in British Columbia: The Vernon Preparatory School, 1914-1946," 119-38 in J. Donald Wilson and David C. Jones, ed., Schooling and Society in 20th Century British Columbia. Calgary: Detselig, 1980.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"History of BC:  Overview," Encyclopedia of British Columbia, ed. Daniel Francis.  Madeira Park:  Harbour, 2000, 331-42.  Also available on KnowBC website.

Barman, J. "Whatever Happened to the Kanakas?" The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History 77:6 (December 1997/January 1998), 12-19.

Barman, J. History of British Columbia. Richmond: Open University 1991. Materials for second-year university credit course, HIST 225, consisting of course manual, 15 lesson units, chronology, photo album, map file, additional readings and assignments. 327 pp. Updated and revised course materials forthcoming 1997.

Barman, J., and Edwards, G. "Private School" entry in Canadian Encyclopedia, rev. ed. on CD-ROM (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997).

Barman, J. "William Naukana," Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. 13, 761-62.

Nanton, I. with Flight, N., Tomlin, B., Van Ruskenveld, Y. and Richardson, L. ed. Consultants: D. Morton, J. Barman and A. McMillan. British Columbia. Discover Canada textbook series. Toronto: Grolier 1994. 144 pp.

Barman, J. "Child Labour" and "Private School" entries in Canadian Encyclopedia, (Edmonton: Hurtig 1985), vol. 1, 329-30, and vol. 3, 1489; rev. for 2nd ed. (1988), vol. 1, 409, and vol. 3, 1762-63; and "Private School" rev. for CD-ROM 1994.

Professional Activities

Editorial board, UBC Press, 1999-

Editorial board, Canadian Historical Association, Journal, 2002-05

Editorial board, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 1997-2005.

Vancouver Museum Revitalization Project, Capital Exhibit Committee, 2001-

Regular contributor on BC history, Almanac program, CBC Vancouver, 1998-

Advisory board, Encyclopedia of British Columbia, 1998-2000

Co-editor, BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, 1995-2002.

Elected member of Council, Canadian Historical Association, 1995-98.

Director, BC Heritage Trust, 1992-98, first vice-chair, 1994-98, chair 1998-99

Director, Pacific BookWorld News Society (publisher of BC BookWorld), 1994-

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Living Landscapes of the Okanagan

HIST 225 - History of British Columbia (3 credits)