UBC Okanagan's Bachelor of Education is decolonizing the classroom
Dr. Cohen wants UBC Okanagan graduates to feel encouraged, not intimidated, to teach Indigenous students.
“Despite historical injustices, many Indigenous Peoples have maintained hope in the potential of education,” he says. “Teacher education bears a significant responsibility since it involves passing knowledge to the next generation.”
Traditionally, Indigenous peoples had no input in the curriculum—no say in its content, teaching methods or instructors. But colonial patriarchy, othering and exclusion are slowly being influenced by Indigenization, he says.
“It’s pragmatic, humanizing and critical in this era of racialized violence, violence against life-giver—women and the earth mother—to learn from and with Indigenous peoples. Indigenization is for all peoples and communities so we can all have a future.”
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