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Anchoring Inclusive Practices in Indigenous Pedagogies: Designing for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
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Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies – An Act for Reconciliation and Anti-Racist Education (2022) – The Journey Since
It’s been a year and a half since this was published. I’ve often been asked how long it took to write. My response? It feels like I have been writing it for decades. Every time I learned something from one … Continue reading
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If Not Here, Then Where?
If there are few or no Indigenous learners in a school or classroom, is there still a need to ensure that all non-Indigenous learners learn about learn about, and from, First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities, cultures, and histories? The … Continue reading
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Epistemic Racism, Indigenous Knowledges, and Curriculum
Understanding just how pervasive various forms of racism are in education systems will be the continued work of the next few years. As we learn about, and begin to address, some types of systemic racism, such as the racism of … Continue reading
Ways Forward – Is Decolonization Even Possible?
In recent years, often in relation to Reconciliation, the concept of decolonizing various public sectors has gained traction. But what does this mean? I often wonder if it is possible to decolonize systems, especially our education system, which is an … Continue reading
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Indigenous-Specific Racism in Education – Challenging Biases and Assumptions
We all have biases that we have developed based on our life experiences, and how we have interpreted those experiences. Biases serve a purpose for us as thinking short-cuts that help us organize our perceptions of the world. Our professional … Continue reading
How Do I Avoid Cultural Appropriation in My Classroom or School?
While educators are encouraged to integrate Indigenous knowledges into schools and classrooms, people have also become aware that respectful inclusion of Indigenous resources means avoiding cultural appropriation or exploitation, and misusing or misrepresenting Indigenous knowledges. Educators often ask about the … Continue reading
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Authentic Indigenous Resources
If we are respecting the First Peoples Principles of Learning and Indigenous knowledge systems, we need to ensure that our classrooms and schools are full of rich, authentic Indigenous resources. This is important for First Nations, Inuit and Métis learners … Continue reading
A Vision of a System
(a snippet of Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies: An Act for Reconciliation and Anti-Racist Education, anticipated publishing date – September, 2022) Many people talk about the need to improve education systems, to create system-wide shifts in values, structures, and processes to … Continue reading
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