Helping immigrant youth grasp Indigenous history
Helping immigrant youth grasp Indigenous history
Gayle Bedard
By Daniela Cohen
“How are classroom teachers integrating Indigenous content into their teachings?” Local Journalism Initiative reporter Daniela Cohen looks into how classroom teaching is changing ever so slowly to better reflect Indigenous history.
Are classroom teachers integrating Indigenous content into their teachings? “What is being taught? How is it being taught? Is it authentic? Does it accurately reflect the true history of colonization?” These are the key questions for history education in Canada, says Gayle Bedard, Tsimshian from the First Nations community of Lax Kw’Alaams (Port Simpson) and district principal of Indigenous education in Coquitlam, B.C.
According to Historica Canada, provinces and territories still have a long way to go in creating history curricula that effectively include diverse narratives. The non-profit’s recent assessment of mandatory history curricula in grades seven to twelve across the country resulted in an average score of 67 per cent, equivalent to a C-.
Comments (0)