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SUMMER SEMESTER 2009

FOUNDATONS IN ABORIGINAL EDUCATION,

(D100)

Dolores van der We

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Office: EDB 8673 ?

Phone: 778-782-3798?

Office hours: By appointment ?

Tuesday 11:30-2:20 Blusson Hall 10031

PREREQUISITE:

60 credit hours.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is an introduction to Indigenous education, primarily in Canada and BC. There will be a

critical examination of historical and contemporary issues in education and an exploration of culturally

based Indigenous education grounded in Indigenous philosophies. Students are asked to interpret and

synthesize content in the context of the education of Aboriginal peoples and in relation to educational

practice. Active involvement in classroom discourses is an expectation, including group presentations.

Accordingly, regular attendance is essential.

OBJECTIVES

-To enhance students' knowledge and understanding of how historical periods, policies and events

influenced contemporary Aboriginal educational issues.

-To heighten students' awareness of Indigenous knowledge(s) and worldviews.

-To examine and reflect on issues of racism, prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping and bias toward

Indigenous peoples, and their implications for education as well as the relationship to understandings of

the previous two objectives.

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To enable students to analyze, critically reflect, and synthesize course readings and experiences, and

engage in classroom discourses about those readings, and experiences in relation to contemporary

contexts.

-To engage students in teaching practices that may inform students' future practices.'

REQUIRED TEXTS

Sterling, Shirley (1992). My name is Seepeetza. Vancouver, Groundwood Books.

ISBN 0888991657

Alexie, Sherman (2007): The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. New York: Hachette Book

Group. ISBN 1397803160136800R 100316013684

A custom courseware package will be available from the bookstore.

Students in all Faculty of Education courses are encouraged to review policies pertaining to academic

integrity available on the Undergraduate Programs website:

http://www.educ.sfu.ca/u2radpro2s/student resources/index.html

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