Indigenous Education Symposium at UBC on March 3, 2015

Nisga'a New Year Celebration, February 6, 2015

MOOC AND BANNOCK

The Delta School District has invited everyone participating in the UBC MOOC called Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education to join them in a MOOC club.  It's not too late to register for the course, and definitely not too late to join the MOOC club.

For more information contact lmccoll@sd38.bc.ca.

TALKING STICK WORKSHOPS IN YOUR SCHOOL/CLASSROOM

http://fullcircle.ca/workshops-in-schools

Call for submissions

Aboriginal Education in BC

Dr. Jan Hare and Dr. Jo-ann Archibald of the UBC Faculty of Education are co-editors of a forthcoming book, "Celebrating k-12 Aboriginal Education in British Columbia: Successes in Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Policy."  They invite proposal submissions (500 words max.) that address Aboriginal Education K-12 teaching exemplars, policy demonstrations, essays, and visual representations of success through experiences and/or research.

Submission deadline: Monday, February 16

• For more information about the book or the submission process, contact indigenous.education@ubc.ca or visit here.

Pro-D event at UBC

Engaging with the Museum of Anthropology: c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city

Date: January 13, 2015

Time: 9:30 am - 11:30 am

Location: Irving K Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 301

Registration: http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/event-registration/?ee=810

The Museum of Anthropology is a resource for instructors across campus. It provides a rich venue for discussion of many complex issues students struggle with understanding particularly in terms of diversity and cultural differences.

The exhibition, c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city focuses on the Musqueam village of c̓əsnaʔəm, occupied for over 4,000 years. Opening on January 25^th,c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city demonstrates Musqueam’s continuous connection to their territory, despite the many changes to the land. It invites students and instructors to engage with Musqueam identity and worldview, through language, oral history, and the community’s recent actions to protect c̓əsnaʔəm.

During this session we will:

• Introduce the exhibit and the complexities of Aboriginal representation in a Museum environment.
• Discuss different approaches instructors could take to prepare students to use this exhibit in their classrooms.
• Demonstrate online resources to assist students to engage with the museum and the exhibition c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city.

Hanae Tsukada, PhD
Classroom Climate and Educational Resource Developer

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology
University of British Columbia               
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall
Musqueam Territory, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z1
604-827-4838

September 18, 2013 was the Observance of Opening of the West Coast National Event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Continue to learn more athttp://irsi.aboriginal.ubc.ca

UBC Faculty of Education's Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Indigenous Education

UBC Faculty of Education is delivering a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), a free 6-week course titled Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education that begins on January 27, 2015.

It is facilitated by Dr. Jan Hare. Jan Hare is an Anishinaabe from the M'Chigeeng First Nation. She holds the Faculty of Education's new Professorship in Indigenous Education for Teacher Education at UBC. Her research interests include the social practices of literacy in Aboriginal families, schools and communities. She has a particular interest in Aboriginal early learning and youth issues. She is mentoring doctoral students working on Aboriginal language revitalization and Aboriginal education.

Participants will learn about Indigenous Education through the lens of reconciliation, and will engage with educational leaders and resources that provide direction for how education programs and teaching practices can be modified in order to meaningfully integrate Indigenous knowledge worldviews and pedagogies in classrooms, schools and communities.

For more information:
https://www.edx.org/course/reconciliation-through-indigenous-education-ubcx-indedu200x#.VG-vEWTF-bF-through-indigenous-education/