About this course: Intended for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal learners, this course will explore indigenous ways of knowing and how they can benefit all students. Topics include historical, social, and political issues in Aboriginal education; terminology; cultural, spiritual and philosophical themes in Aboriginal worldviews; and how Aboriginal worldviews can inform professional programs and practices, including but not limited to the field of education.
Created by: 多伦多大学
Taught by: Jean-Paul Restoule, Associate Professor
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
Welcome and Orientation to the Course
Information about the course
2 readings
- Lecture: Course Information and Logistics
- Lecture: About Us
Aboriginal Worldviews
The description goes here
13 videos, 1 reading
- Video: 1.2 Medicine wheel as organizing principle (4:33)
- Video: 1.3 Defining worldviews and education (4:47)
- Video: 1.4 Canadians don't know much about Aboriginal people
- Video: 1.5.1 Reasons why Aboriginal worldviews matter [part 1] (10:26)
- Video: 1.5.2 Reasons why Aboriginal worldviews matter [part 2] (7:34)
- Video: 1.6 Aboriginal people are diverse but share two things (3.28)
- Video: 1.7 Comparing the worldviews (0:51)
- Video: 1.8 Barbecue Area (2:28)
- Video: 1.9.1 Accurate terminology [part 1] (15:41)
- Video: 1.9.2 Accurate terminology [part 2] (10:42)
- Video: 1.9.3 Accurate terminology [part 3] (4:16)
- Video: Week 2 Activity: Meaningful Place (2:02)
- Lecture: Links to Further Resources
Graded: Make the Familiar Strange
WEEK 2
Aboriginal Worldviews Colliding with Newcomers
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24 videos, 1 reading
- Video: 2.1.2: Stereotyping [Part 2] (13.29)
- Video: 2.1.3: Stereotyping [Part 3] (8:23)
- Video: 2.1.4: Stereotyping [Part 4] (16:12)
- Video: 2.1.5: Stereotyping [Part 5] (13:45)
- Video: 2.2: Wab Kinew on the soapbox (0:30) + (1:45)
- Video: 2.3: The relationship develops (16:21)
- Video: 2.4: A walk through history (0:36) + (2:00)
- Video: 2.5: Using RCAP wheel to look at relationship (8:06)
- Video: 2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 1] (0:58)
- Video: 2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 2] (2:30)
- Video: 2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 3] (6:17)
- Video: 2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 4] (4:43)
- Video: 2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 5] (4:34)
- Video: 2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 6] (8:41)
- Video: 2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 7] (2:05)
- Video: 2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 8] (3:25)
- Video: 2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 9] (4:11)
- Video: 2.7: Wampum (1:22)
- Video: 2.8: Interview with Angela Mashford-Pringle [Part 1] (10:18)
- Video: 2.8: Interview with Angela Mashford-Pringle [Part 2] (12:02)
- Video: 2.8: Interview with Angela Mashford-Pringle [Part 3] (13:40)
- Video: Lecture: 2.9 Rethinking the relationship (1:40) + (13:55)
- Video: Week 3 Activity: Loss Thought Piece
- Lecture: Links to Further Resources
Graded: Quiz #1 (Week 3): Aboriginal Worldviews and Education
WEEK 3
A Brief History of Aboriginal Education
The description goes here
11 videos, 1 reading
- Video: 3.2 Ab ed through the wheel Pre-contact [Part 1] (13:11)
- Video: 3.2 Ab ed through the wheel Pre-contact [Part 2] (15:26)
- Video: 3.3 Ab ed through the wheel early contact (5:08)
- Video: 3.4 Ab ed through the wheel Colonial period [Part 1] (15:58)
- Video: 3.4 Ab ed through the wheel Colonial period [Part 2] (12:26)
- Video: 3.5 Residential schools (0:52)
- Video: 3.6 Interview with Suzanne Stewart on Intergenerational Trauma [Part 1] (10:38)
- Video: 3.6 Interview with Suzanne Stewart on Intergenerational Trauma [Part 2] (9:42)
- Video: 3.7 The Apology and Analysis - Laura McKinley Interview (7:11)
- Video: Week 4 Activity: Aboriginal Apology (1:48)
- Lecture: Links to Further Resources
WEEK 4
Contemporary Themes in Aboriginal Education
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9 videos, 1 reading
- Video: 4.1 Ab ed through the wheel Contemporary [Part 2] (10:00)
- Video: 4.2: Culturally responsive education (1:28)
- Video: 4.3: Aboriginal knowledge for all (1:37 + 3:44 + 16.37)
- Video: 4.4 Assessing Resources (4:16)
- Video: 4.5 Cultural Appropriation (4:40)
- Video: 4.6 Renewing the relationship: Idle No More (3:31 + 19:13)
- Video: 4.7 Course closing
- Video: 4.8 Course Closing: Words of Elders
- Lecture: Links to Further Resources
Graded: Quiz #2: Week 5 Quiz
WEEK 5
8th Fire: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada & the Way Forward
This television series aired on Canada's CBC in 2013. Short clips used in the course created a demand from students for more and to see the clips in their original context. We received permission to show the series here.
4 videos
- Video: 8th Fire episode 2. It's time
- Video: 8th Fire episode 3. Whose land is it anyway?
- Video: 8th Fire episode 4. At the Crossroads
WEEK 6
Extras
These are additional materials that may be of interest. None of this material counts towards your final grade.
7 videos
- Video: TA Feedback 1 - Introductions
- Video: TA Feedback 2
- Video: Jean-Paul Screenside Chat for Week Two
- Video: Jean-Paul Screenside Chat for Week Two - Course design questions
- Video: Jean-Paul Screenside Chat for Week Three [part 1]
- Video: Jean-Paul Screenside Chat for Week Three [part 2]
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Ratings and Reviews
It enhance my knowledge (and hopefully skills too) about Aboriginal culture and people in Canada.
It was a wonderful and well laid out course! I gained so much insight and felt that this course really shaped my understanding.
This course was well worth the enrollment fee. High quality material shared by an excellent professor. Made me more knowledgeable about aboriginal issues in Canada, helped me see from an aboriginal perspective, and really highlighted what a poor job our educational system in Canada does at including aboriginal content in the curriculum and how inaccurately it portrays aboriginal and colonial history. More people should take this course - it's enlightening, stereotype-destroying, and makes you think very critically about the subject matter.
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Would like note to read as opposed to all lectures, would allow me to work on the course around my teaching times more easily.