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Investigating Teachers’ Perceptions: Exploring Professional Capacities to Implement Indigenous Worldviews into their Classrooms
Hurley, Katherine Dorothy
Hurley, Katherine Dorothy
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In 2016, the government of British Columbia redesigned their K-12 curriculum. A focus of this redesign was to incorporate Indigenous content into the regular curriculum across all subjects. Many teachers in BC elementary schools identified struggles with their capacities to teach with Indigenous worldviews. They lacked the prior knowledge required to teach this content well because they were never taught about Indigenous peoples’ histories in their elementary, high schools, and sometimes university experiences. This interpretative interview study gave voice to ten teachers in BC’s Fraser Valley who have been undertaking this task. The results of the study found that teachers in BC require more professional development from the Ministry of Education and from their districts to successfully undertake the important task of educating today’s students about the important history of Indigenous people in Canada.
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2024-01-01
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University of Kansas
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Education, Education policy, colonization, educational change, indigenize, pedagogy