This is a great TED video that looks at the past practices in education in remote aboriginal communities. It then looks forward at the evolving roles of the educators in these locations.
It’s well worth your 15 minutes! Module 4 post 1
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Module 2 | Post 4 History of residential schools ignored in Canadian curriculum
This is a story that is playing on the CBC radio 1 in The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti as I write this blog post. Great interview with Charlene Bearhead, an education coordinator with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that talks about this opportunity to add this discussion to the Canadian curriculum and the value of doing so for students and for the future of Canada. If there is a transformational change in the curriculum and in our awareness of the history of residential schools and first nation reality, then this report, the process that created the report and the stories that were painfully shared, then this is a commodity that can be leveraged to change the importance, relevance and priority of this history and its inclusion in our education and dialogue as we move forward in our negotiations and discussions.