After listening to Lee Brown’s interview in Module 1, I realized that he has a lot of insight into making inclusive classrooms for First Nations Students. I have downloaded his thesis Making the Classroom a Healthy Place: The Development of the Affective Competency in Aboriginal Pedagogy and begun to unpack what he is noticing in classrooms.
There is a lot of fear for teachers when teaching about cultures that are not their own, but Lee Brown helped me to realize that it’s not specifically about the academics, but about the emotional attachment, the values, and the connection to each other and our place, that will create more culturally inclusive classrooms.