Cultural Relevant Pedagogy & Sense of Place
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…
Hip Hop Pedagogy
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…
The Politics Behind Curricula & The Saskatchewan Way
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…