The University of Calgary has created an incredible library of resources that can enhance everyone’s classroom. This resource is valuable to my project as it shares a variety of books that relate to making and decolonizing classrooms. There is an additional area that focuses on digital storytelling. These resources have been vetted and compiled by the Indigenous Education department at Werklund School of Education. I have been fortunate to work with this team to help create video projects to help new graduates find places and spaces on campus that share Indigenous artwork or areas to connect to Indigenous culture. As mentioned on their site, “Decolonized education seeks to reconcile contemporary education with the past and with the peoples’ present ensuring that the ideological and self-interests within Eurocentric education are not imposed on Indigenous peoples and they build their own present with their own agency and power” (Battiste, 2013, p. 26). These are aspects we will be reflected about within our project.
If you are an educator and have not reviewed these resources I highly recommend it as this will enhance your resource collection and knowledge moving forward. Enjoy exploring.
https://werklund.ucalgary.ca/teaching-learning/indigenous-education-resources