Teaching Reconciliation and Treaty Education Through a Leveled Reading Series in Primary Schools in Canada
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Sammel, Alison
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Sammel, Alison
Whatman, susan
Blue, Levon
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This chapter discusses how Indigenous ideologies and perspectives are being embedded in schools in Saskatchewan, Canada through Reconciliation and Treaty education projects. Through dialogue, Alison explores practical ways Calvin Racette, a Métis Elder from Saskatchewan, has worked on projects to Indigenize education. This chapter outlines how Calvin worked with teachers and his wider community to an art project and student conference entitled Treaty4 Project which won the 2018 Canadian Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching. His second project, called Under One Sun addresses Treaty education through a series of 54 books, and Elder videos, for Kindergarten to grade eight students, published by Nelson Education. In this book series, Calvin and his cowriters introduce concepts to re-educate and re-shape the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada while also awakening new ways of negotiating reconciliation. They present information in a way that focuses on healing, reconciliation, and a collaborative way forward. These classroom materials included a teacher’s guide to assist with understanding and embedding the teaching outcomes of Treaty education agendas. Each book was designed to be used as a leveled reading strategy to improve literacy while embedding Indigenous histories and cultural competencies and perspectives as their base. Through this narrative, Calvin provides a glimpse of what it was like to grow up as a Métis child and how the support of his family encouraged him to become a teacher and community leader and ultimately to be recognized as a community Elder.
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Indigenizing Education: Discussions and Case Studies from Australia and Canada
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Education systems
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education not elsewhere classified
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Racette, C; Sammel, A, Teaching Reconciliation and Treaty Education Through a Leveled Reading Series in Primary Schools in Canada, Indigenizing Education: Discussions and Case Studies from Australia and Canada, 2020, 1, pp. 91-120