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Sarah DupontAboriginal Engagement Librariansarah.dupont@ubc.ca604.822.0480

EDUC 440 Sept 2013

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Today • Responses to readings: A Broken Flute• Skills development:

• Find a book or video by an Indigenous author or filmmaker

• Find Resources about evaluating First Nations Children’s literature

• Find curriculum resources at Xwi7xwa library

• If time permits, exercise worksheet• Evaluations of this presentation

Libraries and Aboriginal Knowledge• Western and Indigenous knowledge systems are

profoundly different

• History of colonization has suppressed Aboriginal knowledge, national and community histories as well as personal histories.

Xwi7xwa LibraryLooking forward

www.xwi7xwa.library.ubc.ca

Brainstorm … •What types of things do you think Xwi7xwa Library would have that would help you – With your assignments– With your teaching – With understanding Aboriginal education

Finding Indigenous authors Xwi7xwa library catalogue records: use “Books and Media” tab for physical items AND e-booksuse “General” tab for above items PLUS articles, etc.“first nations author”

See Restoring the Balance record in the UBC Library catalogue: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=3906961

The chapter titles and authors are listed, along with the authors’ (self-identified) community or First Nations affiliation.

I.e. Creating an Indigenous intellectual movement at Canadian universities: the stories of five First Nations female academics / Jo-ann Archibald (Sto:lo)

Indigenous perspectivesIn addition to your research topic, use search terms such as:

biograph?interview?source?narrative?perspective?

For example: teach? first nations biograph?

How can teacher candidates critically evaluate resources for classrooms that present…

• Appropriate cultural representations

• Representations of diversity, not stereotypes

• Stories that are inclusive, not exclusive

Toby RajputAssistant Professor, Children's &

Youth Literature Librarian at National-Louis University(played with her permission)

Things to watch for:

• Omission• Illustrations• Story line• Authenticity• Author/

illustrator’s background

• Language

Online Evaluation Resources

Evaluating Children's Books for Bias http://www.intime.uni.edu/multiculture/curriculum/children

.htm

Multicultural Children's Literaturehttp://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/

literacy/articles/multicultural_childrens_literature_/index.html

Awards for Multicultural Youth Literature

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~dea22/multaward.htm

Worlds of Words (International Collection of Children's

& Adolescent Literature)http://wowlit.org/catalog/region/americas/region-2/

Criteria for Evaluating Multicultural Materials

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li4lk26.htm

Curriculum and Evaluative Resources (Aboriginal Children's Literature)

Aboriginal Education Research Guide: Curriculum tabhttp://guides.library.ubc.ca/abeduc#tabs-7

Aboriginal Children’s Literature Research Guide:http://guides.library.ubc.ca/xwi-childrens_lit-home#tabs-5

First Nations Education Steering Committee (BC)http://www.fnesc.ca/curriculum

What Are Authentic First Peoples Texts?

Authentic First Peoples texts are historical orcontemporary texts that

► present authentic First Peoples voices (i.e., arecreated by First Peoples or through thesubstantial contributions of First Peoples)

► depict themes and issues that are importantwithin First Peoples cultures (e.g., loss ofidentity and affirmation of identity, tradition,healing, role of family, importance of Elders,connection to the land, the nature and place ofspirituality as an aspect of wisdom, therelationships between individual andcommunity, the importance of oral tradition,the experience of colonization anddecolonization)

► incorporate First Peoples story-tellingtechniques and features as applicable (e.g.,circular structure, repetition, weaving in ofspirituality, humour).

FNESC- Learning First Peoples

First Nations Education Steering Committee. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.fnesc.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/K-7-Resources-Mar-2012-update.pdf

Kim Lawson

Keywords and call numbers• Primary • Secondary• Intermediate• Elementary• Youth• Curricula• Study and teaching• Teaching aids• Education• Curriculum development• Lesson (lesson plans)

Xwi7xwa call numbers:• ETA: Kindergarten and

Pre-school Curricula• ETE: Elementary Curricula• ETS: Secondary Curricula• ETT: Adult Education

Curricula • YUC: Junior/ Secondary

Literature

“YUD”:Brian Deere Call # @ Xwi7xwa for items needing careful interpretation and bridging

Your research topics

Exercise worksheet

Questions?