Week 5 Blog Reflection

In the article written by Levin, he explains that curriculum is heavily and primarily influenced by politics and policies. Politics entails the people who have the power in society to take societal opinions and perspectives, and reflect those ideologies into legislation. Personally, I do not follow politics very closely as a topic of interest but I do actively enact my right to vote. Although it makes complete sense, I’ve never specifically correlated political power to power over the curriculum. This, sadly, reminds me how teachers and the people directly delivering the content have little to no control over what is prioritized in students learning.

The article presenting treaty outcomes and indicators was an interesting read. Though very practical and beneficial, as we mention in lecture, it is interesting how brief these learning goals are. Despite this, I feel like the implementation of these outcomes in Saskatchewan has been proper and beneficial. I’ve noticed a huge shift toward implementing activities and materials that connect to these curricular outcomes very well within classrooms in my community. I’m not sure if this is me interpreting things with “rose-coloured glasses” as a white settler in our society, but I feel like we are moving in the right direction towards proper trety education that is prioritized by teachers and school communities.