"EDUCATION is what got us here, and
EDUCATION
is what will get us out."
Senator Murray Sinclair

MB Education's Role in Truth & Reconciliation

Overview of Presentation

• What is Call to Action 62.i?
• How has MB Education responded to this Call to Action?
• Critical analysis of MB's response
• How do provinces and teachers develop and deliver sensitive topics in the curriculum?
• What are resources that Gr. 6 teachers could use?

1. TRC's Call to Action 62: We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial government in consultation and collaboration with Survivors, Aboriginal peoples, and educators, to:
i. Make age-appropriate curriculum on residential schools, Treaties, and Aboriginal peoples’ historical and contemporary contributions to Canada a mandatory education requirement for Kindergarten to Grade Twelve students.

2. MB Ed. response to Call to Action 62.

• In Mb, Gr. 9 & 11 students receive curriculum on residential schools
• Kairos Report Card
• MB education created legislation on Indigenous content
• MB Education created teacher guides (From Apology to Reconciliation)

Grade 9 Learning Outcomes
9-KI-017 Give examples of ways in which First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples are rediscovering their cultures.
9-KI-018 Evaluate effects of assimilative policies on cultural and linguistic groups in Canada.
9-KI-018A Evaluate effects of residential schools on their own and other Aboriginal communities.

Grade 11 Learning Outcomes

How did the First Peoples and Europeans interact in the North West and what were the results?
How did Canada's relationship with Indigenous People change after Confederation?
How did the fur trade, European settlement, and the rise of the Metis Nation transform life for people of the North West?

Kairos Report Card on MB's response to TRC's Call to Action 62.i

Indigenous Content in MB Schools


Grades 1-11cover
treaties, residential schools, and the contributions of Aboriginal Peoples.

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3. Critical Analysis to MB Education's response to 62.i.

Critical Analysis
- wider themes of colonialism
- Orange Shirt Day
- Limited teacher knowledge
- Not enough explicit SLO

4. How do provinces and teachers develop and deliver sensitive topics in the curriculum (specifically related to Residential Schools)?

Recommendations

- TRC's recommendation
- create a positive learning environment
(Holocaust Education 2000)
- Genocide should be taught in historical context
(Totten, 1994)
- First-person accounts by survivors critical
(Feinberg & Totten, 1994)
- Begin in middle school
(University of Minnesota- Genocide Studies, 2018)
- Use primary source documents
(Library of congress, 2018)

Teacher Resources

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