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Seeking wellness through a culturally relevant curriculum : improving student success in Aboriginal communities Williams, Sarah E.
Abstract
This narrative self-study relates my personal experiences as a teacher to curriculum and pedagogy and the issues in Aboriginal education. The study takes a descriptive narrative format using a selection of photographs and retelling of my professional and personal experiences to examine ways that the wellness of Aboriginal students can improve through the use of more culturally relevant curriculum and pedagogy. The research question guiding this study was how can my experiences working in Aboriginal communities inform curriculum and pedagogy in home economics food studies courses? I describe and interpret my experiences teaching in an Arctic community, a community on the Westcoast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia and visiting two villages of in the Upper Amazon of Peru. My experiences and review of the literature confirmed that a need exists for curriculum that is more culturally relevant to students in Aboriginal communities. Through the integration of indigenous knowledge into courses like home economics, students stand to improve in their physical health, academic success, spiritual health and cultural connections. While challenging to integrate indigenous knowledge systems into a Euro-centric system of schooling, change is necessary and achievable. My reflection, through self-study, serves to identify the transformative process that I have gone through professionally and personally that will improve my professional practice.
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Seeking wellness through a culturally relevant curriculum : improving student success in Aboriginal communities
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Seeking wellness in the roots of a cultural curriculum
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2014
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| Description |
This narrative self-study relates my personal experiences as a teacher to curriculum and pedagogy and the issues in Aboriginal education. The study takes a descriptive narrative format using a selection of photographs and retelling of my professional and personal experiences to examine ways that the wellness of Aboriginal students can improve through the use of more culturally relevant curriculum and pedagogy. The research question guiding this study was how can my experiences working in Aboriginal communities inform curriculum and pedagogy in home economics food studies courses? I describe and interpret my experiences teaching in an Arctic community, a community on the Westcoast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia and visiting two villages of in the Upper Amazon of Peru. My experiences and review of the literature confirmed that a need exists for curriculum that is more culturally relevant to students in Aboriginal communities. Through the integration of indigenous knowledge into courses like home economics, students stand to improve in their physical health, academic success, spiritual health and cultural connections. While challenging to integrate indigenous knowledge systems into a Euro-centric system of schooling, change is necessary and achievable. My reflection, through self-study, serves to identify the transformative process that I have gone through professionally and personally that will improve my professional practice.
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eng
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2023-11-16
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0437774
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Unreviewed
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Graduate
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International