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Module 3 Post 3: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculums

Indigenization

Here is a webcast recording from October 2020. It’s about what decolonizing and Indigenizing means to curriculum. These Indigenous voices are telling us that we need to learn from Indigenous people, not about them. We need to have cultural humility. We should learn to listen and listen to learn. Education needs to be humanized. Reconciliation means more than an informative process, it requires transferrable practice. Examples are given about what Indigenizing a curriculum looks like. Getting community members involved in curriculum development. Incorporating Indigenous languages into the curriculum. Using oral traditions. Include community events. If you think about building trust within the community, consider more community involvement throughout the curriculum. This webcast is very insightful. As you watch it, you will also learn about many key Indigenous curriculum principles. One of the principles is including Indigenous people to set curriculum agendas and giving space for nonIndigenous people as they may also have good insight.

What do you think about the ideas shared here? How do you see these ideas fitting into your curriculums?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqASXOfihAI

Reference:

Centre for Educational Excellence. (2020 November, 3). Interrupting the academy: Decolonizing and Indigenizing the curriculum. [Video]. Youtube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqASXOfihAI

Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives in K-12 Curriculum

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This BC government site documents implicit and explicit links between Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives and specific curricular (or cross-curricular) areas according to B.C.’s redesigned curriculum, and the links can be applied to other provincial curriculums similarly. It also links the connection to the Math First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide, which provides specific activities with developed elements to support the integration of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives.

British Columbia Ministry of Education. (n.d.) Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives in K-12 Curriculum. https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/curriculum/indigenous-education-resources/indigenous-knowledge-and-perspectives-k-12-curriculum

First Nations Education Steering Committee. (2020). Math First Peoples. http://www.fnesc.ca/math-first-peoples/

Math Catcher Outreach Program and Resources

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This website promotes math and science to elementary and high school students with a focus on story-telling and hands-on activities. The Math Catcher program is based in BC and was inspired over a decade ago to help improve the math completion rates of Indigenous learners. The program offers teacher training workshops, school visits, student summer camps, and instructional activities. There is an excellent collection of video stories that follow the antics of a 5-year-old boy, Small Number, and his mathematically themed adventures – and they have been translated into different Aboriginal languages also. Although the site suggests targeting an audience up to grade 12, the materials it offers are primarily elementary in nature. The Summer Math Camp Program appears to have ended in 2018 – it hosted grade 9 – 11 Aboriginal students in math and science day camps at SFU.

Math Catcher: Mathematics Through Aboriginal Storytellling. (n.d.). Home. http://mathcatcher.irmacs.sfu.ca/