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In my math classes growing up, there wasn’t much room for discrimination when talking about the pure math questions. When we would discuss word problems or use the textbook other races and cultures had the opportunity to be represented. The textbook we used did incorporate pictures of students with diverse backgrounds and included them inContinue reading “Mathematics”

              Before this weeks reading, I never really thought much about how I read the world or the lenses I have that shape the world I see. Growing up I came from a smaller town where everyone in my class was mainly white with mainly white female teachers. I was never really exposed to anythingContinue reading “Curriculum as Literacy”

Through my schooling, I don’t remember much about citizenship education and don’t think I really had a class where that is what we learned. Citizenship is one of those topics that tended to be incorporated in other places in the curriculum. Most of the citizenship education I got was probably through social studies class. WhenContinue reading “Citizenship”

Through watching the videos and reading the articles I have furthered my learning and understanding of the importance of treaty education in the classroom. I didn’t really have treaty education when I was growing up but I am now seeing more and more the importance of treaty education in the classroom.  It’s important to understandContinue reading “Treaty Education”

Part 1) School curricula is mainly developed by experts on the particular topic with teachers of the subject area also included in high numbers (Levin 2007, pp 17). There are other groups of people involved in developing and implementing the curricula such as government officials, post-secondary subject experts, and other groups such as parents, communityContinue reading “Curriculum as Public Policy”

Throughout the article there were points where reinhabition was being done and other parts where decolonization was still occurring. One reinhabititon part was the overall project of having youth and elders work together on a project. The youth would interview the elders and learn through their stories. They would make audio documentaries out of theContinue reading “Curriculum as Place”

A “good” student is a student who is able to follow rules and learn course material a certain way and retain certain information from their learning. Now not all students are the same and not every student fits the description of a “good” student. This doesn’t make the other students bad but those other studentsContinue reading “A “Good” Student”

In the article “The Effect of Hidden Curriculum on Character Education Process of Primary School Students” it talks about how the hidden curriculum in schools is very important and can impact the students and their character. Creating a student’s character involves a lot of outside influences as the child is growing up especially by theirContinue reading “Hidden Curriculum: Critical Summary Assignment”

The Tyler rationale is still used in many schools today. In my own experience being in school especially at the high school level this way of learning curriculum was very present. When I was in high school the main goal as a student wasn’t really to learn the material, it was more so, finish thisContinue reading “Curriculum Theory and Practice: Tyler Rationale”