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FINAL EXAM ESSAY QUESTION soci/ anth 395 spring 22

PLEASE PICK ONE QUESTION OF THE LIST, and answer it

1.Do you believe that British Columbia is implementing Indigenous approaches to education and indigenizing curricula for the holistic benefit of Indigenous and non-indigenous students, or do you believe that it may be posturing?

2. How do you believe the discrepancies between official curriculum and teachers who have not been educated on Indigenous practices and worldview affects education?

3. Is there a risk of the indigenous changes to the curriculum becoming a ‘dead’ curriculum?

4. Do you see a benefit in changing Aboriginal programs (generally separated from classrooms) to classroom events for all students to experience?

5. Why have colonial forms of education discouraged/not accommodated outdoor education for so long? In education systems, how can teachers lead students in a way that will encourage them to recognize the importance of the First People's Principles of Learning?

6. Thinking of the Medicine Wheel and the FPPL, in what ways was your educational experience unbalanced? Did your experience value the mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual avenues equally? If not, which aspects were emphasized, and which were ignored? How would you have been different today if there was more balance in your educational environment?

7 What factors do you think contribute to the racism Indigenous people experience specifically in healthcare settings? For example, I think the power disparity between provider and patient that is promoted within the Western/colonial medicine plays a major role in how Indigenous patients are treated.

8. Have you witnessed any discriminatory or racist behavior towards Indigenous people in healthcare settings yourselves? If so, please describe the situation and circumstances that the experience took place in.

9. How does healthcare-related systemic racism towards Indigenous peoples compare to discrimination towards other races, either in Canada or internationally? For example, how does their lack of access to quality care compare to African-Americans and Latinos in the United States?

10. What are ways in which we can help end the cycle of intergenerational trauma?