In reading Leroy Little Bear’s article ” Jagged Worldviews Collided” there was one specific section that really stood out to me. The section was titled “Aboriginal and Eurocentric Values Contrasted”. At the beginning of the section it talks about how the Aboriginal culture attempts to mould their members into what they deem as the most appropriate version of themselves. Although…

Treaty education is important for every student to be aware of and for every teacher to address in their classrooms. The problem with teachers not incorporating treaty education into the classroom because “There are no indigenous children in the classroom” is that just because they do not look Indigenous doesn’t mean that they are not Indigenous. I really enjoyed Dwayne…

I found this topic very interesting. Previously I had read a few of my classmates research on this topic but I know see that the information they shared with me was miniscual to the research that shows the benefits to using Hip Hop in the classroom. One line that really stuck with me was ” “Hip Hop is the dominant…

My grandmother spends her summers planting flower pots to be put around town. She decided to do this because she felt like the the town needed more gardenscape around town. My grandmother spent countless hours planting these flowers therefore she is a participatory citizen because she plays an active role in the community. She is also considered a participatory citizen…

15/10/2020 These reading this week really showed the large scale that curriculum is developed upon. One phrase that really grabbed my attention was from the reading “The Saskatchewan Way”. It talked about how curriculum is not just what the students are learning in the classroom but that curriculum is everything that is happening in the classroom, such as social skills.…

09/10/2020 This week I found to be very interesting. Our guest speaker Jacq Brasseur was extremely knowledgable on the subject and shared first hand experiences of a system that wasn’t built for them. During their lecture, Brasseur, spoke a lot about how there wasn’t not enough representation of LGBQT+ people in the curriculum. Children that are apart of the LGBQT+…

01/10/2020 In Kumashiro’s article, it begins by telling the story of M. M is a student in the classroom that is seen as a bad student because they are unable to follow classroom instructions very well. In the beginning Kumashiro is upset and thinks that they are an unfit teacher. Throughout the story Kumashiro then notices that M can in…

23/09/2020 For my critical summary, I decided to focus on play in the curriculum. While researching I came across the work of Margaret Latta. Latta is a Canadian teacher that holds her Bed (University of Lethbridge), MA, and Ph.D. (University of Calgary). The article I decided to focus on is, “Accessing the Curricular Play of Critical and Creative Thinking”. This…

17/09/2020 Throughout my schooling I did not experience Tyler’s rationale a lot, because I was an average student, therefore the curriculum worked well for my learning style. I do acknowledge that this was not the case for everyone in my class. Tyler’s rationale was to group everyone, which does not work well because you will never get a group of…

09/09/2020 Throughout the article Kumashiro tells his story about teaching in Nepal and how that changed his view as an educator. A big part of the reason why his view was changed so much was because he was experiencing living in a whole other world, and learning skills that the locals deemed “common sense”. Kumashiro believes that common sense is…