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Blog Post Week#10 Think back on your experiences of the teaching and learning of mathematics — were there aspects of it that were oppressive and/or discriminating for you or other students? I stopped learning mathematics in Grade 12 – 1988. I have no recollection what aspects of it were oppressive and/or discriminating for others orContinue reading “Week #10 Blog Post”

How has your upbringing/schooling shaped how you “read the world?” My upbringing was within a family of five children, and two married parents. My father toiled for thirty+ years as a University professor at the UofS, while my mother gleefully ran the family farm. My formal education was at a conventional small town prairie school, while myContinue reading “ECS BLOG WEEK 9”

I spent my childhood and youth growing up on an eighty (80) acre farm roughly twenty (20) miles South East of Saskatoon. My traditional schooling occurred during 1975 – 1988. I went to Clavet Composite School from grade 3 to 12. I was a Clavet Cougar 6-man football corner back in 1986! Grrrr! Woot-woot! MyContinue reading “Blog Post Week #8”

There is a the purpose of teaching Treaty Ed (specifically) or First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI) Content and Perspectives (generally) where there are few or no First Nations, Metis, Inuit peoples. Dwayne Donald notes that most Canadian Canadians have a sense that they do NOT have a culture. And if they do, it isContinue reading “Week#7 Blog Post”

According to the Levin article, how are school curricula developed and implemented? What new information/perspectives does this reading provide about the development and implementation of school curriculum? Is there anything that surprises you or maybe that concerns you?  School curricula is developed by a gathering of experts, and non-experts. Curricula is developed by people who’veContinue reading “Week6-Levin article”

List some of the ways that you see reinhabitation and decolonization happening throughout the narrative. The gist of the article is the exposing of, “a critical pedagogy of place that aims to (a) identify, recover, and create material spaces and places that teach us how to live well in our total environments (reinhabitation); and (b)Continue reading “Learning from Place”

What does it mean to be a “good” student according to the commonsense?  One who learns by planned lessons? One finds comfort in commonsense ideas put forth in school, and via people in their upbringing? Or one who comes with knowledge, and willing to challenge what they know. They work toward learning from a placeContinue reading “Reading Reflection – Jan.30”

Two significant influences on the development of my character, personality, and intellect were my family and physical environment. When I was eight years old (1978), we moved from thick in the city, to eighty barren acres of prairie. It quickly became a farm brimming with every  ‘pet’ animal known to childkind – cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys,Continue reading “Blog Post #3 – Critical Summary”

Respond in your blog to the following writing prompt: Curriculum development from a traditionalist perspective is widely used across schools in Canada and other countries. Think about:  (a) The ways in which I may have experienced the Tyler rationale in your own schooling – It’s been 32 years since highschool. I can’t recall that educationContinue reading “Tyler’s take on curriculum”