Course:EDUC440
| Aboriginal Education in Canada | |
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| EDUC 440 | |
| Section: | 107 |
| Instructor: | Dr. Cash Ahenakew |
| Email: | cash.ahenakew@ubc.ca |
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| Office Hours: | By appointment |
| Class Schedule: | Monday, 8:30AM-12:00PM |
| Classroom: | Neville Scarfe 202 |
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Course Description
EDUC 440 – Aboriginal Education in Canada is intended to provide teacher candidates with opportunities to explore how to respectfully and meaningfully integrate Aboriginal/Indigenous history, content, and world views.
You will examine the role of Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing in Aboriginal/Indigenous societies and learn how to make use of this knowledge in your planning for the classroom, school and community. The goal is to assist all educators to make a contribution to transforming Aboriginal education in order to improve educational outcomes for Aboriginal/Indigenous learners and enhance learning for all students.
This course is offered to all Elementary, Middle Years and Secondary students.
Course Topics
- our relationship to indigenous peoples and indigenous education
- indigenous knowledge in education
- looking back, looking forward: aboriginal education in Canada
- teaching residential school history and texts
- integrating indigenous content, perspectives and knowledge into the curriculum
- pedagogical approaches in indigenous education
- aboriginal family and community engagement
- indigenous languages and the classroom
- sharing responsibility for transforming indigenous education
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