Current

Current Courses

• IED 371 - The History of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education in Canada
• IED 372 - Indigenous Epistemologies
• IED 373 - EL TELNIWT and Indigenous Education *mandatory for all teacher education students
• IED 473 - CENENITEL TW TOLNEW: Helping each other to learn
• IED 499/591 - Learning and Teaching in an Indigenous World

Current Programs

Bachelor of Education in Indigenous Language Revitalization

B.Ed. Language

MA and MEd Language

Graduate Certificate and Master's Degree in Indigenous Language Revitalization

Program Goals

To ensure a generation of language experts who will have the language and academic skills to participate and lead successful language revitalization efforts in Indigenous communities, adn to develop language scholars who wil have the expertise to support post-secondary instruction in the revitalization, recovery and maintenance of Indigenous languages.

Offered jointly through the University of Victoria Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Education

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Next intake for Masters in Indigenous Language Revitalization is Summer (July) 2014

The deadline to apply is JANUARY 15 2014

History

History of EDCI 499/591 courses with Indigenous content

EDCI 499/591 Thunderbird/Whale Protection & Welcoming Pole (2005)

The first in a very successful series, this course is pedagogically based on Indigenous teaching and learning experiences: the construction and installation of a Thunderbird/Whale protection pole.

Pre-service teachers, education graduate students and faculty in the class worked alongside an Aboriginal artist in-residence, Fabian Quocksister and Lekwungen mentor carver/educator, Butch Dick.

The students witnessed, experienced and learned as they carved and positioned a Lekwungen and Liekwelthout pole, Schalay’nung Sxwey’ga, in the lobby of the MacLaurin Building, which houses the Faculty of Education.

EDCI 499/591 Earth Fibres (2006)

In this course, students engaged in an experiential educational practice. They learned first hand how teaching and learning occur in an Indigenous world.

Undergraduate and graduate students worked alongside artists-in-residence and wisdom keepers/mentors to witness, experience, learn, and work with a variety of traditional Indigenous fabric and textile arts.

• Wool Knitting with May Sam
• Buckskin Printing with Janet Rogers
• Buckskin Beadwork with Gay Williams
• Métis Sash with Lynne Hemry
• Button Blanket with Gina Robertson
• Cedar Bark Weaving with Caroline & Frank Memnook

Students and instructors collaborated on a two-sided mural, Xaxe Siam Seetla, which was gifted to the Faculty of Education that now hangs in the faculty’s Curriculum Library.

EDCI 499/591 Earth Songs (2007)

In EDCI 499/591 – Earth Songs: Learning and Teaching in an Indigenous World, students engaged in hearing traditional stories and songs associated with the music traditions. Students began by making the drums and rattles that they will use in creating music. Students learned from sessional instructors, Butch Dick and John Elliott, who were assisted by volunteer knowledge-keepers, Glenn Patterson, Fabian Quocksister and Bradley Dick, who was also a student in the class.

Students, working in teams, developed new songs for the course. Five songs were given to the faculty to be used by faculty and future students. One, composed by Bradley Dick, was given back to the Unity Drummers for safekeeping, which the faculty has the right to use, crediting the Unity Drummers as the keepers of the song.

In December 2007, the students held a performance in Government House for BC’s new Lieutenant Governor, Stephen Point. A five-song CD has been recorded.

Earthsongs - Student Curriculum Guide

Earthsongs - Educator's Guide

Earthsongs - Drum Sheet

EDCI 499/591 StoryStick (2008)

In this course, undergraduate and graduate students worked alongside artist-in-residence and wisdom knowledge keepers to witness, experience, and learn the story traditions of Indigenous peoples.

Student learned from instructors, Dr. Lorna Williams and Butch Dick, the central role of storytelling and stories in teaching and learning, and the cultural protocols, First Nations traditions, art, symbols, materials, and philosophy surrounding stories and storytelling.

Each student created a storystick according to the traditions of First Nations. Groups designed, created, recorded and told a story at a ceremony, which met the protocols of the local First Nations and the University of Victoria.