Fiddling with a Culturally Responsive Curriculum
Theses
Author/Creator
Virginia Gluska
Description
Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2011.
Scholarly, peer reviewed paper argues the idea that emphasis on "culture" will improve educational outcomes with urban Aboriginal youth is not working and that the issue of race is more important in the urban context.
Discusses the importance of cultural influences and teachers' need to understand how their own cultural background colours their perspective and practice.
Designed to assist faculties of medicine in furthering the competencies as stated in the curriculum framework. Discusses rationale and process of community engagement, collaborative vision, pedagogy, implementation, and evaluation.