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Can Creative Engagement Be Taught: Walking The Talk, B. Mckenzie
Can Creative Engagement Be Taught: Walking The Talk, B. Mckenzie
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
How can we encourage classroom teachers to view their classrooms as creative spaces? To understand that in order to foster and develop creativity and enhance engagement in the children within that space they may be required to shift gears and both’ be’ and do things differently? How indeed- when the teaching examples and pedagogical practices provided for them by university educators are most often sadly lacking in both creativity and engagement. Researchers assert that many education courses lack cohesion and in fact hinder pre-service teacher development and understanding. Fostering a culture of creative engagement within any classroom requires the development …
Culturally-Responsive Mathematics Pedagogy Through Complexivist Thinking, Wendy S. Nielsen, Cynthia Nicol, Jenipher Owuor
Culturally-Responsive Mathematics Pedagogy Through Complexivist Thinking, Wendy S. Nielsen, Cynthia Nicol, Jenipher Owuor
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
This paper uses a complexity lens to consider the pedagogical project of culturally responsive mathematics. Need for new and different theoretical perspectives for Aboriginal education arise from chronic underachievement among Canada’s Aboriginal students. Culturally responsive mathematics pedagogy as a complex learning system allows a different view into the interrelationships and necessary conditions between culture, education and society, a view that aims to open new possibility for curriculum development, Aboriginal schooling and cultural renewal, while ensuring success for students.