Shay Swystun

Week 5: In the article this week Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing. They examine critical pedagogy of place and how it is tied with identity, recovery, space and place that help us live well in our environments which is seen as rein habitation and also, decolonization, or identity and change ways of thinking that injure and exploit other people and places. In regard to rein habitation and decolonization within the article youth got the opportunity to…

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In the article “Preparing Teachers for Crisis a Sample Lesson” by Kumashiro it talks about different types of students, learning styles and learning standards. He examines teachers and argues that when teaching we should be considerate of anti-oppressive education and working through student crisis. This article was very eye opening and got me thinking about certain ideas that I have never considered before.  Growing up in elementary school you could always tell who the “good” and who the “bad” students…

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As I began looking through scholars and topics my interest first peaked at Death/Ghosts in the curriculum. When I started to look into this topic there were not a lot of articles to choose from and they seemed to lack interest and did not argue points that I thought they would, so I turned my focus to disability in the curriculum. There were multiple articles that touched on many different views around disability. I found an article that stood out…

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