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Engaging in Conversation: Indigenous Perspectives in the Family Studies Classroom

March 13, 2023 • OFSHEEA • Season 1 • Episode 11

Welcome to the episode 11 of “What the Family Studies?” Today we welcome Natasha Gleeson. Natasha is Inuk, having Inuit ancestry from Nunatsiavut (Labrador). Natasha is currently with the TDSB's Urban Indigenous Education Centre, where she is an Instructional Leader, supporting Indigenous Education through community connection, classroom and professional learning instruction, student success initiatives, as well as curriculum and resource development. We are so thrilled to be able to learn from Natasha today about how we can educate ourselves on Indigenous history in Canada, how we can decolonize our pedagogy and practice and understand how we can incorporate Indigenous voices into our classrooms.

Resources shared in this episode include:

The Inconvenient Indian A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/93028/the-inconvenient-indian-by-thomas-king/9780385664226

Podcast - Whose Land is it Anyways? A Manual for Decolonization https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fpse/id1520094636?ign-itscg=30200&ign-itsct=podtail_podcasts

Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (EFTO) https://www.etfo.ca/socialjusticeunion/first-nation,-metis-and-inuit-(fnmi) and https://etfofnmi.ca/?page_id=1728 (excellent resources that could be used in courses like HPC30 Raising Healthy Children, HPW3C Working with Infants and Young Children and HPD4C Working with School Aged Children)

Chelsea Vowel - https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/author/chelsea-vowel-1.2715933 Book - Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis, & Inuit Issues in Canada https://www.portageandmainpress.com/Books/I/Indigenous-Writes \

The Power of Style buy Christian Allaire - https://www.annickpress.com/Books/T/The-Power-of-Style

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