University of Toronto - Aboriginal Worldviews and Education 

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1.1 Welcome and course overview

1.2 Medicine wheel as organizing principle (4:33)

1.3 Defining worldviews and education (4:47)

1.4 Canadians don't know much about Aboriginal people

1.5.1 Reasons why Aboriginal worldviews matter [part 1] (10:26)

1.5.2 Reasons why Aboriginal worldviews matter [part 2] (7:34)

1.6 Aboriginal people are diverse but share two things (3.28)

1.7 Comparing the worldviews (0:51)

1.8 Barbecue Area (2:28)

1.9.1 Accurate terminology [part 1] (15:41)

1.9.2 Accurate terminology [part 2] (10:42)

1.9.3 Accurate terminology [part 3] (4:16)

Week 2 Activity: Meaningful Place (2:02)

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2.1.1: Stereotyping [Part 1] (4:27)

2.1.2: Stereotyping [Part 2] (13.29)

2.1.3: Stereotyping [Part 3] (8:23)

2.1.4: Stereotyping [Part 4] (16:12)

2.1.5: Stereotyping [Part 5] (13:45)

2.2: Wab Kinew on the soapbox (0:30) + (1:45)

2.3: The relationship develops (16:21)

2.4: A walk through history (0:36) + (2:00)

2.5: Using RCAP wheel to look at relationship (8:06)

2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 1] (0:58)

2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 2] (2:30)

2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 3] (6:17)

2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 4] (4:43)

2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 5] (4:34)

2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 6] (8:41)

2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 7] (2:05)

2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 8] (3:25)

2.6: Indigenous knowledge [Part 9] (4:11)

2.7: Wampum (1:22)

2.8: Interview with Angela Mashford-Pringle [Part 1] (10:18)

2.8: Interview with Angela Mashford-Pringle [Part 2] (12:02)

2.8: Interview with Angela Mashford-Pringle [Part 3] (13:40)

Lecture: 2.9 Rethinking the relationship (1:40) + (13:55)

Week 3 Activity: Loss Thought Piece

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Quiz #1 (Week 3): Aboriginal Worldviews and Education

3.1 Applying the wheel to aboriginal education (3:34)

3.2 Ab ed through the wheel Pre-contact [Part 1] (13:11)

3.2 Ab ed through the wheel Pre-contact [Part 2] (15:26)

3.3 Ab ed through the wheel early contact (5:08)

3.4 Ab ed through the wheel Colonial period [Part 1] (15:58)

3.4 Ab ed through the wheel Colonial period [Part 2] (12:26)

3.5 Residential schools (0:52)

3.6 Interview with Suzanne Stewart on Intergenerational Trauma [Part 1] (10:38)

3.6 Interview with Suzanne Stewart on Intergenerational Trauma [Part 2] (9:42)

3.7 The Apology and Analysis - Laura McKinley Interview (7:11)

Week 4 Activity: Aboriginal Apology (1:48)

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4.1 Ab ed through the wheel Contemporary [Part 1] (11:25)

4.1 Ab ed through the wheel Contemporary [Part 2] (10:00)

4.2: Culturally responsive education (1:28)

4.3: Aboriginal knowledge for all (1:37 + 3:44 + 16.37)

4.4 Assessing Resources (4:16)

4.5 Cultural Appropriation (4:40)

4.6 Renewing the relationship: Idle No More (3:31 + 19:13)

4.7 Course closing

4.8 Course Closing: Words of Elders

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Quiz #2: Week 5 Quiz

8th Fire episode 1. Indigenous in the City (43:24)

8th Fire episode 2. It's time

8th Fire episode 3. Whose land is it anyway?

8th Fire episode 4. At the Crossroads

Jean-Paul Screenside Chat for Week One

TA Feedback 1 - Introductions

TA Feedback 2

Jean-Paul Screenside Chat for Week Two

Jean-Paul Screenside Chat for Week Two - Course design questions

Jean-Paul Screenside Chat for Week Three [part 1]

Jean-Paul Screenside Chat for Week Three [part 2]