CBC Edmonton News, December 13, 2021
Report and interview with Carla Peck on changes announced by Minister of Education, Adriana LaGrange, regarding the draft K-6 curriculum and implementation plans.
Social Studies
Le télé journal (Radio-Canada): Bulletin de nouvelles du lundi 13 décembre 2021
Rapport et entretien avec Carla Peck sur les changements annoncés par la ministre de l’Éducation, Adriana LaGrange, concernant le projet de programme d’études de la maternelle à la 6e année et les plans de mise en œuvre. (7:48 into broadcast)
Opinion: Why Kenney won’t back down on curriculum
Angela Grace, PhD (Registered Psychologist)Dr. Grace is a Registered Psychologist, national eating disorder prevention specialist, and former elementary teacher passionate about youth health and well-being and trauma-informed teacher training in educational settings. www.heartcenteredcounselling.com/
Silent Masculinity and White Logic in Alberta’s K-6 Social Studies Curriculum
In less than three months since Alberta’s draft K-6 curriculum’s release, educators across the country have released a torrent of criticism levelled at the social studies portion of the curriculum. More apparent to me however is how the curricular narratives construct not only a racialized and exclusionary Albertan “we”, but how that “we” also carries with it gendered intonations.
Reconciliation and Residential Schools: Canadians need new stories to face a future better than what we inherited
As a scholar concerned with how teachers’ own education shapes what happens in classrooms and how curriculum in Alberta schools can help students to be ethically engaged treaty partners, there are two concepts that may be helpful: considering learning in schools as a process of encounter and thinking about people’s relationships to stories about the past.