EDEE 283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mind Map
26 Jun 2018
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Lecture 1:
Why the land acknowledgement ?
—> Anti-colonial framework as lens
-So we never forget the history of who’s been on this land and who can we thank/respect for the
land that were on
-A way towards reconciliation - a history like that shouldn't be covered or censored, we should
know everything about Canada’s history of colonization and everyone should acknowledge what
happened
Lecture 2:
Big Idea #1:
-Teaching social studies is always a political act having implications for how your students
understand Canada, and how they will live within it. Teachers must carefully and purposefully
decide on their political stance and be able to articulate it.
What does it mean to be Canadian?
Today’s understandings:
-The overall rational for social studies education in schools is the idea that it prepares students
to be citizens
-In view of this purpose for the social studies in schools, the social studies educator must
Social acceptance/social change spectrum:
-At one extreme, social acceptance (social initiation), the point of citizenship education is to
promote complete conformity with mainstream social norms and practices;
-At the other extreme, social change (social reform), it is to promote total transformation of the
social fabric
Purposes of citizenship education
-Instructional focus: the value line
—> Value line exercise
Subject-centred (intellectual development)/student-centred spectrum (personal development)
-At one extreme, preparation is thought to be achieved by disciplining the mind exclusively
through exposure to the bodies of knowledge and forms of reasoning found in the social
sciences
-At the other extreme, is a view that the best form of citizenship preparation is achieved by
nurturing the whole child by focussing exclusively on his or her interests, concerns, problems,
values, etc.
Mind maps - thinking tools:
-Pages 279,280,289
-What are the essential components
—> Labelling pictures, drawing’s, important topic in the centre, codes, words, connectors,
colour, branches/association/connections (curved not straight, structured or uniformed) that
have one key image or key word that connect to the central topic, help store and recall
information, thinking tool that reflects what goes on in your head, creativity, straightforward and
fun, imagination and association
-Mind maps are brilliant route-maps for the memory, allowing us to organize
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Document Summary
So we never forget the history of who"s been on this land and who can we thank/respect for the land that were on. A way towards reconciliation - a history like that shouldn"t be covered or censored, we should know everything about canada"s history of colonization and everyone should acknowledge what happened. Teaching social studies is always a political act having implications for how your students understand canada, and how they will live within it. Teachers must carefully and purposefully decide on their political stance and be able to articulate it. The overall rational for social studies education in schools is the idea that it prepares students to be citizens. In view of this purpose for the social studies in schools, the social studies educator must. At one extreme, social acceptance (social initiation), the point of citizenship education is to promote complete conformity with mainstream social norms and practices;
