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Integrating queerness into curriculum studies to me has to be done through a variety of ways. Initially as Heather Sykes suggests in Queering Curriculum Studies, I have to recognize my own white privileges, and how I am caught up in it in personal, politcal, and theoretical ways, and how it all affects queerness. I also…

My upbringing and schooling has influenced how I view the world. I grew up in a small predominantly white community which never really allowed me to see and experience much diversity. This unfortunately has previously trained my perceptions and realization of things to be oblivious to normal narratives and the dominant views that influence the…

An issue that Leroy Little Bear points out is how Eurocentric values are mainly focussed on the product of things, whereas Aboriginal and Indigenous values are more focussed on the process. Mathematics is typically seen as a black and white type of subject. We grow up learning that there are right and wrong answers, and…

Listening to Dwanye’s lecture, I learned how important it is for the Europeans and Indigenous peoples to face each other across the historical divides, in order to strive for ethical relationships and understandings between each other. He goes on to explain how this “disconnect” among the Europeans and Indigenous peoples that is present in our…

Through the article “A case study of a secondary English teacher’s activism and agency” we see an example of an English teacher in Ontario, Meriah, who introduced methods of culturally relevant pedagogy through multiple forms of writing in her classroom. On one occasion she had her students partake in performance poetry. These poems were written…

In the article Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Form of Liberatory Praxis, we see how hip hop can be used as a tool to promote social justice and youth activism in the classroom. Commonly the term hip hop makes people think of rappers, gangsters, breakdancing – mainly something that you would not expect to…

It has always been a very controversial topic of deciding what is in a curriculum and what should be taught. From personal experiences, I have seen both students and teachers scrutinize the curriculum, however, both in different ways. Many teachers find it extremely difficult to meet all the outcomes the curriculum calls for – there…

To be a “good” student is to comply with the predetermined, embedded ideas that society had established for many years that have now become accustomed to the general population. Kumashiro describes in his article that “the mainstream society often placed values on certain kinds of behaviour, knowledge, and skills.” We see that some of these…

Through the articles “Historical silences and the enduring power of counter storytelling,” “Narrative and analytical interplay in history texts: recalibrating the historical recount genre,” and “Narratives of power: historical mythologies in contemporary Québec and Canada,” we are able to see how power plays such a predominant role in historical narratives. Typically, history is written from…