Author Archives: Madiha

https://youtu.be/tUssvDbGpNM My Journey of ECS 210 ( Please see following if the audio is not clear). What is a curriculum? In the beginning of ECS 210, my understanding of Curriculum was, “Syllabus consisting of topics made by Government” that a teacher follows. I thought curriculum as one kind of document that tells teacher what should beContinue reading “Curriculum as process”

At the beginning of the reading, Leroy Little Bear (2000) states that colonialism “tries to maintain a singular social order by means of force and law, suppressing the diversity of human worldviews. … Typically, this proposition creates oppression and discrimination” (p. 77). Think back on your experiences of the teaching and learning of mathematics —Continue reading “Curriculum as Numeracy”

I learned from my parents that before you have a bias just try to get some knowledge about it. My schooling happened in Pakistan where there was no such diversity with regard to skin color. I never happened to learn about Indigenous People and spending time with different colors. We do read some simple EnglishContinue reading “Curriculum as Literacy”

Some examples of citizenship education in school was recycling the paper/plastic waste into proper bins, and not throwing into garbage. Others examples which I would like to mention honoring the speaker and not to disrupt in conversation, considerate/kind to each other, learning traffic rules and helping the students who might be struggling with learning. NationalContinue reading “Curriculum as Citizenship”

In response to the email, Treaty Education is not for indigenous people only but for all Canadians, even if there is no or few Indigenous students in class. The essence of the Treaty Ed. is to prosper the nation together and understand our responsibilities as Canadians. It is important to know the history and recognizeContinue reading “Treaty Education”

In this chapter Levin (2008) discusses the development of official curriculum. The official curriculum is constructed by government and other authorities for use in school, province and country. Levin defines curriculum as “An official statement of what students are expected to know and be able to do(p. 8) I learned the influence of politics onContinue reading “Curriculum as Public Policy”

Throughout the article, I can see how the youth and elder are trying to build linguistic, cultural, social, family and spiritual relationship . The indigenous people have strong emotional and spiritual bond with land and water. They lost the original names of the river after colonization and suffered tremendously so want to teach youth theContinue reading “Learning from Place”

What it means to be good student according to commonsense? A good student would be one who does not challenge and tends to follow the planned course and prescribed things. The student who absorbs every thing and does not raise any concern what it meant to learn. Every student learns differently. Knowledge could be troublingContinue reading “The “Good” student”

For the Assignment, I am going to choose the topic “Hidden Curriculum”. Hidden Curriculum is a broad topic. I found one article relating to it, ” Hidden Curriculum on gaining the value of respect for human Dignitnity. https://casls-primo-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1ed24l6/TN_proquest237029210y.” The writers state that hidden curriculum has inappropriate features for human dignity in Turkish schools although theContinue reading “Assignment 1”

Smith- Curriculum Theory and Practice 1-My schooling is combined model of curriculum as product and also as process. The objectives are kept in mind by the teachers and then the process is developed to gain those objectives. In my opinion the classroom is not just for delivering lectures but also to engage student for interactiveContinue reading “Smith Curriculum theory and Practice”