'Curriculum'
- Miss Shackleton
- Jul 28, 2020
- 2 min read
According to the Levin article, how are school curricula developed and implemented? What new information/perspectives does this reading provide about the development and implementation of school curriculum? Is there anything that surprises you or maybe that concerns you?
The schools curricula is developed by the higher power that being the political representatives. These representatives come with many different perspective on the variety of creative ideas one is having. Then they are put into frameworks, many frameworks the main one's brought up in this article are : Levin used a typology of origins (where policy comes from), adoption (from an idea to a decision), implementation, and outcomes (results, intended or not, of decisions).
The new information and perspectives that this reading provided was that the school curriculum is really based upon the frameworks the higher up in politics and government want it's people to have. The outcomes of what is to be learned by what grade level.
After reading pages 1-4 of the Treaty Education document, what connections can you make between the article and the implementation of Treaty Education in Saskatchewan? What tensions might you imagine were part of the development of the Treaty Education curriculum?
They are both given indicators and outcomes of what to be be learned at certain ages. They are also made by the higher class of the government and given guidelines for each age of how they are to understand the overall topic.
I feel like some tensions that Treaty peoples, knowing that there culture is to be taught by some people. That don't understand the true beauty and importance of it, to take it seriously. I also think there would be much of a conversation to as if it was people of a different group to decide what was important to teach and what wasn't.
I agree with you - people and educators do not take Treaty education seriously which is a concern to me because if they do not learn it in the schools, then when? I am concerned about parents and their dislike towards Treaty education being taught in schools, my dad had a difficult time with me taking Beginners Cree, saying to me that I will never use it. I had to tell him that is not the point - the point of learning it, yes, I was curious and it was the language I wanted to learn because I am looking forward to using it in the classroom, but it is important for us to understand the difference in languages a…
Sabrina - I think it's interesting that you noted that some people might not take Treaty Education seriously. I think that's definitely an issue in some cases, where people feel that it can just be ignored and not taught. What connections to the Levin article can you make? If teachers are reluctant to teach Treaty Ed, is it possible that their voices weren't represented in the development of the outcomes? Was there perhaps not enough support for implementation of the curriculum?
In the future, it would be helpful if you would include actual quotes from the articles to support what you are saying - this will make your posts much stronger.