Bigstone Cree Nation : K-3 school curriculum and program framework
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Date
1997
Authors
Yellowknee, Nora C
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education
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Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1997
Abstract
Our First Nations communities have been forced to experience different
educational settings and from these experiences there has been a public outcry to
meet the educational needs of our children. Meeting the educational needs of our
children is a great challenge. It is an honour to be involved in a process of
developing programs and curricula with people who are open and have committed
themselves to providing a different learning experience for our First Nations
children and have a deeper understanding of what it means to plan an education and
that is in line with an holistic, or organismic, educational philosophy.
As the process of developing culturally and linguistically appropriate
curricula and programming gains acceptance, I hope our community people will
come to see such a process as being necessary and realize that they have a prominent
role to play in it and that they will offer their support in educating our children.
Different areas of knowledge need to be explored and induded in order to
enhance the learning/teaching experience of our children. This means inviting
and involving Cree people, induding parents in the teaching/learning process, one
which until now, they have eXlJerienced and accepted strictly as an activity that
happens to them within the walls of a place called a school. Helping our Bigstone
Cree Band/Nation (BCB/N) community people and parents to realize that education is
broader in scope than what they have come to accept will be the biggest challenge to
be met by Aboriginal or First Nations' educators.
Description
85 leaves ; 28 cm. --
Keywords
Indigenous peoples -- Education (Primary) -- Alberta , Cree -- Education