Queering the Curriculum
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…
Caught up in Single Stories
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…
Teaching of Mathematics
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…
Importance of Treaty Education
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…