Numeracy and Literacy
It was interesting to see some of the different ways of looking at education and specifically numeracy and literacy. It was not difficult to see some ways that Eurocentric ideas … Continue readingNumeracy and Literacy
Author: Jennifer
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Citizenship Education
The citizenship education in my K-12 years was mostly personally responsible based. Joel Westheimer and Joseph Cane in What Kind of Citizen, categorize that as generally character education and volunteerism … Continue readingCitizenship Education
Treaty/Settler Education
It is so unfortunate that many teachers and students did not see the value in learning about Treaties and Indigenous ways of knowing. This is sadly a too common scenario … Continue readingTreaty/Settler Education
Politics of Curriculum
Having an understanding of how curriculum is made was very beneficial to me. I had not realized how much of the curriculum process was politically motivated and the Levin article … Continue readingPolitics of Curriculum
Good Students and Great Students
Common sense would dictate that a “good” student can is obedient, sits quietly and listens to the teacher’s instructions, does all of their work and homework in the way the … Continue readingGood Students and Great Students
Common Sense
Hearing “Common Sense” as the definition of what everyone should know, by Kumashiro, was interesting. It can be so easy to forget that the things that are normal and accepted … Continue readingCommon Sense
What is normal?
A defining point in my life in which I more clearly understood my privilege and perception of what it was like to function in this world was meeting my friend, … Continue readingWhat is normal?
Class
As a child my parents always focused on how blessed we were to have all that we did. I thought that I was quite fortunate and had a responsibility to … Continue readingClass
Privilege and Closing the Gap
High school was a time that I really began to understand my racial identity. I came from a small town that was quite racially divided between Caucasian and Indigenous people. … Continue readingPrivilege and Closing the Gap