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- Title
Angela: A pedagogical story and conversation.
- Authors
Piquemal, Nathalie A. C.; Kouritzin, Sandra G.
- Abstract
This article presents a story composed by the authors for pedagogical purposes for the courses they taught in the social foundations of education, and early years multi-language development. This story is inspired by the recognition that formal schooling has failed, and continues to fail, aboriginal students. Many theories explain this failure in terms of the cultural discontinuity and cultural resistance manifest in people's interaction patterns and their personal and collective belief systems. In order to ensure that education is culturally relevant for aboriginal students, it is important for educators to do more than add aboriginal perspectives, voices, and stories to the curriculum. Concerned with the lack of cultural sensitivity that some of the pre-service teachers in an early years' teacher education program in Western Canada were displaying, the authors used their combined observations as school experiences' supervisors and as co-researchers engaged in a pilot project, in several urban settings in three Western Canadian provinces to compose the story of Angela. As Murray and Kouritzin (1997) have done, the two lead authors created a composite character who is not representative of any one classroom in any particular school.
- Subjects
CURRICULUM; MINORITY students; CULTURE; TEACHERS; SCHOOLS
- Publication
Multicultural Education, 2003, Vol 10, Issue 3, p33
- ISSN
1068-3844
- Publication type
Article