{"id":22,"date":"2011-09-20T13:33:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T20:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/?p=22"},"modified":"2011-10-07T08:50:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T15:50:55","slug":"statement-connecting-weblog-to-research-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/2011\/09\/20\/statement-connecting-weblog-to-research-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement Connecting Weblog to Research Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College of the Rockies (COTR) serves the communities of the East Kootenays and is located in the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa Nation and the\u00a0Kinbasket<strong> <\/strong>people<strong>.<\/strong> Five Bands<strong> <\/strong>are located<strong> <\/strong>within the College region, four Ktunaxa Bands and one Shuswap &#8211; Kinbasket Band.<\/p>\n<p>I teach in the Child, Youth, and Family Studies program at COTR, and while there is a strong Aboriginal presence in our institution, it is strangely absent in my department.\u00a0 Last year the Aboriginal Strategic Support and Education Team (a team of faculty members whose goal is to \u201cwork collaboratively with the College community to promote the integration and use of Aboriginal scholarship in programs and courses offered by College of the Rockies\u201d) approached our department requesting we include more Aboriginal content in our courses.\u00a0 The request was denied, as my department felt we were very multi-cultural in our approach, and that it was not necessary to single out any one specific culture or group of people.\u00a0 Although very early in this course, I\u2019m already realizing that there are deeper issues that we never considered.\u00a0 There are distinctions to be made and questions to be asked.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we have almost no First Nations students enrolled in our program?\u00a0 Many of the courses I teach are online courses.\u00a0\u00a0 What can I do, as an instructor, to meet the needs of Aboriginal students in my online classes?\u00a0 What are those needs?\u00a0 How are the goals and needs of Aboriginal students taking online courses different and\/or similar to non-Aboriginals&#8217;? These are the questions I will use as the basis for my weblog research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>A.S.S.E.T.\u00a0 (2011).\u00a0 College of the Rockies.\u00a0 Retrieved September 20, 2011 from http:\/\/www.cotr.bc.ca\/aboriginal\/cotr_web.asp?IDNumber=175<\/p>\n<p>Who We Are. (n.d.) Ktunaxa Nation.\u00a0 Retrieved September 20, 2011 from http:\/\/www.ktunaxa.org\/who\/index.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of the Rockies (COTR) serves the communities of the East Kootenays and is located in the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa Nation and the\u00a0Kinbasket people. Five Bands are located within the College region, four Ktunaxa Bands and one Shuswap &#8211; Kinbasket Band. I teach in the Child, Youth, and Family Studies program at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252584],"tags":[3319,233,2817],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connection-to-research-topic","tag-adult-education","tag-education","tag-elearning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}