https://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/4246 2025-01-16t10:05:59z https://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/5407 developing ecologically conscious macro-models embedded in gandhi’s educational philosophy for indian k12 schooling: a teacher’s handbook chandorkar, suphala the need for a transformative approach to environmental education has become more pressing as traditional teaching methods often fail to foster deep ecological understanding and sustainable behaviors among 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 . this handbook was developed to address the disconnect between environmental knowledge and meaningful, action-oriented learning in indian k-12 education. drawing on gandhian educational philosophy, the specific objective of this work is to create immersive, nature-based instructional activities that cultivate ecological consciousness, ecological literacy, and a kinship with nature (ecophily). this handbook not only emphasizes the importance of integrating nature-based pedagogy into the 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2024-01-01t00:00:00z https://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/5370 integration and experiences of immigrants within canada kattini, sarah this portfolio was created with the goal of better understanding and closely examining the various difficulties and barriers that newly landed immigrants face upon entering canadian society. immigrants make up a large portion of canadian society, and yet many changes need to be made within federal and provincial policies to create a more equitable living experience for them. this portfolio is composed of three different parts: a literature review, chapter book (with ai generated images), and a diverse literature guide. the ai generated images were a choice that was not taken lightly, as i found struggle in creating images using digital art softwares. my experience as a syrian-canadian, the daughter of syrian immigrants, and the relative of syrian refugees, has influenced the creation of the chapter book and diverse literature guide, as they mirror my own childhood desires and experiences. i hope to have my diverse literature guide used throughout schools in canada as a basis for teachers to reach for when they are unsure of how to include positive media representation of diverse 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 within their classroom. furthermore, i hope to have my chapter book published, so that the many children within canada who come here not knowing much english, can know that their experiences are valid. and even better, so that their classmates who do know english are able to be more empathetic and understanding of what it is like not to speak the main language of a country. 2024-01-01t00:00:00z https://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/5308 literature instruction: using a critical and social lens lawlor, joshua social change depends on the actions of the citizens of tomorrow. without creating changes to the curriculum and to the perspectives from which we teach, the likelihood of producing social change is lessened. the main objective of developing this resource guide is to help educators to teach with a critical lens and encourage 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 to think beyond the surface of the texts they read. critical literacy addresses contemporary issues and challenges 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 to consider the perspectives and rights of various groups of people. the purpose is to understand that texts portray different biases and perspectives and to gain perspective on others’ experiences an example of this “is critical literacy perspective which, although rooted in language and literacy education, has the potential for application across the school curriculum and in research more broadly " (janks, 2013, p. 227). janks provides an excellent example of how this lens can expand into other portions of the curriculum besides language arts. using theoretical perspectives of social justice and critical literacy, this guide provides an outline of activities spanning 5 to 10 weeks that could be adopted or expanded by teachers who are unfamiliar with these two perspectives to support grade 5 and 6 teachers to begin to integrate critical literacy and social justice into their classrooms in ways that are accessible to the interests of grade 5 and 6 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 . 2024-01-01t00:00:00z https://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/5293 awakening ontario educators to treaty stories: exploring the possibilities of disruptive treaty scripting as professional development petitpas, denise i need to tell you a story. my name is denise petitpas and i am a french-canadian, ontario school teacher. specifically, i am franco-ontarian, and my surname petitpas, comes from one of the first forty families to settle and establish the new france colony in present-day nova scotia. i am also a descendant of marie-thérèze, a mi’kmaw woman censused alongside my 7th great-grandfather claude petitpas ii, the 30th family of the sauvages de mouscadoubet in 1708 acadia (see appendix a) (petitpas, n.d). my family knows this genealogy and more from colonial documents and missionary accounts that my distant relatives, such as my 6th great-grandfather, bathélemy le sauvage, claude and mariethérèze’s son, had extensive knowledge of the land, its peoples, indigenous languages, along with french and english. my ancestors served as interpreters and navigators to the new arrivals. as darryl leroux’s research has shown (indigenousstudiesusask, 2015, 17:28), like many french-canadians, i descend from a distant indigenous grandmother. and this is a story i used to tell. fast forward this story 400 years to today. after generations of exile, persecutions, and inter-marriages (petitpas, n.d) out of indigeneity, only the french language and culture have survived in me. through a series of complex “colonial happenings” (madden, 2019, p. 286), i am not connected to the land (mi’kma’ki), the people (l’nu), or the language (mi’kmawi’simk) of my distant ancestors. cree elder willie ermine (sturgeon lake first nation) is right; i am poor, my memory has been erased, and i need an awakening (nccie, 2019, 3:05-4:25). 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