Author: Nicole Cooke

How has your upbringing/schooling shaped how you “read the world?” What biases and lenses do you bring to the classroom? How might we unlearn/work against these biases? Which “Single stories” were present in your own schooling? Whose truth mattered? My experience in elementary and early high school was a very one sided, stereotypical, colonized education.…

Part 1: At the beginning of the reading, Leroy Little Bear (2000) states that colonialism “tries to maintain a singular social order by means of force and law, suppressing the diversity of human worldviews. … Typically, this proposition creates oppression and discrimination” (p. 77). Think back on your experiences of the teaching and learning of…

What is the purpose of teaching Treaty Ed (specifically) or First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI) Content and Perspectives (generally) where there are few or no First Nations, Metis, Inuit peoples?What does it mean for your understanding of curriculum that “We are all treaty people”? Dear Student,It is important to remember when teaching Treaty Education,…

[Culturally relevant pedagogy and critical literacy in diverse English classrooms: A case study of a secondary English teacher’s activism and agency]: What will culturally relevant pedagogy look like, sound like, and feel like in your future classroom? [Placing elementary music education: a case study of a Canadian rural music program]: how will you, as a…

[John Dewey and the Challenge of Progressive Education] How can we understand new educational trends in relation to the global network context? How may we build upon and direct these new educational trends to realize the contemporary democratic aspirations of a global network society? According to John Dewey in The Challenge of Progressive Education by…

Although curriculum is a fundamental part of the framework of schooling, curriculum decisions and choices are shaped in large measure by other considerations – ideology, personal values, issues in the public domain, and interests. Curriculum decisions are often part of a much larger public debate that often extends beyond education to larger questions of public…

What does it mean to be a “good” student according to common sense? Which students are privileged by this definition of the good student? How is the “good” student shaped by historical factors? A good student in common sense knowledge, would be a student who listens, is not disruptive, does their work, learns and reaches…

I chose this topic because I wanted to know what the actual definition or classification of an education that is urban urban. My personal understanding, or common sense knowledge, surround the idea the word urban is city life. But, I do know that a lot of people have a different understanding that urban is seen…

Curriculum development from a traditionalist perspective is widely used across schools in Canada and other countries. Think about (a) The ways in which you may have experienced the Tyler rationale in your own schooling; (b) What are the major limitations of the Tyler rationale/what does it make impossible; and (c) What are some potential benefits/what…