ECS 210- Digital Story

Here is the link for my digital story: https://youtu.be/af36j8XcssQ

Reflection #9- Curriculum as Literacy

My memories of high school math are seldom revisited due to my poor performance in the subject. All kidding aside, I would have to say that while my experiences in math class were far from oppressive, they may have been discriminatory in the sense that the only accepted form of mathematics was the Western way....

Reflection #8- Curriculum and Treaty Education

According to the Levin Article, school curricula are developed by a surprisingly large and diverse group of people, ranging from academics, to teachers and business representatives. I found this to be a very strange fact, as I would've expected academics and teachers to be the ones to develop our provinces curricula since they are the...

Reflection # 7- Personal Evaluation of the Politics of Knowledge

My upbringing and schooling have both had a profound impact on the ways in which I view the world. Since the majority of my childhood experiences were positive ones, I in turn read the world through a very positive lens. To me, there was no such thing as broken families, and things like alcohol abuse...

Reflection #6- The Importance of Treaty Education

Dear Student, First of all, I would like to establish that because we are all treaty people, your coop teacher is not fulfilling their job requirements as an educator by not incorporating Treaty Education into their classes. Therefore, you are not only correctly doing your job as a teacher by weaving Treaty Education into your...

Reflection #5- Re-inhabitation and De-colonization

Within the article "Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing" by Jean-Paul Restoule, Sheila Gruner, and Edmund Metatawabin I was able to see a few examples of both re-inhabitation and de-colonization. Both of these practices are vital in order for Indigenous peoples to return to their roots and embrace spirituality once...

Reflection #4- Definitions of a “Good” Student

According to the "commonsense", a good student is one who does what the schools expects of them, and learns best through the ways that schools traditionally teach them. These students do things such as sit in their desks, listen when the teacher is talking, take notes, and respect others. When looking at this definition, it...

Reflection #3: Assignment Outline- Historical Thinking and the Curriculum

“Historical thinking? It’s the idea that there’s more to it than just what you read in that textbook or handout. The book you’re reading is a version of history—someone’s interpretation and it’s time to get your own version”- Ignacio Longoria As a history major, I decided to focus of the topic of historical thinking and...

Reflection #2-The Many Faces of Curriculum

Although Curriculum is only a single word, its surprising how many different ways the concept of what curriculum actually is can be explained. Often, the meaning is defined by teachers individually depending on their preferred teaching styles, culminating in many different interpretations of the curriculum. Within Smith’s article “Curriculum Theory and Practice”, the curriculum is...

Reflection #1- The True Definition of “Commonsense”

Within the article The Problem of Common Sense, the author defines the concept of common sense as “what everyone should know” (Kumashiro, 2009). This loosely translates to the way in which the past traditions of a given society, be it Nepalese or American, are embraced to such an extent that they are continuously enforced within...