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Indigenous perspectives needed in modern curriculum
Thank you for your editorial in issue 55-3 of the ATA News (“Commit to truth and reconciliation or take off the orange shirt.”)
As a masters student in Indigenous education through the University of Saskatchewan, I continue to make room in my mind and heart for Indigenous knowledge and perspectives. The best way to understand the difference between the two is that knowledge is learning about, and perspective is learning from. Our curriculum must continue to work at understanding Indigenous perspectives.
Chris Champion’s comments are not only hurtful, they are short-sighted. The promotion of classical Eurocentric perspectives is a promotion of inequality and inequity.
In Social Studies 10, we encourage students to see, listen and consider multiple perspectives. Indigenous perspectives reiterate these same sentiments.
Champion’s comments, at their crux, are racist.
I appreciate your use of your platform, and I hope your words are well-received across the province. They certainly are with me.
Conor Pilz
Social studies, Jasper Place School, Edmonton
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Cassandra Kostuk
It seems completely logical that teachers teaching the curriculum should be integrally involved in creating it!
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