What is the purpose of teaching Treaty Ed (specifically) or First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI) Content and Perspectives (generally) where there are few or no First Nations, Metis, Inuit peoples? As a future teacher, it is so important to…
Month: October 2021
Approaches to Unit Planning
What will culturally relevant pedagogy look like, sound like, feel like, in your future classroom? In order to create a learning environment that is culturally relevant, one must be critically aware and agentive in classrooms, drawing on relevant socio-cultural theories…
Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis
How can hip hop be used as a tool to promote social justice and youth activism in the classroom? What is the relationship between hip hop culture and the development of critical consciousness amongst students? Within A. A. Akom’s article,…
What Should Be Learned in Schools?
Curriculum Policy: “Every education policy decision can be seen as being, in some sense, a political decision” (Levin, 8). Although this makes sense now, in elementary and high school I had never considered that the education I received had been…