The Global Perspective? Worldview meets Confucianism

Greetings Readers,

Prior to moving abroad to China, I was fortunate enough to be invited under Frontier College's Literacy Camp Summer camp as a Camp Counsellor/Coordinator alongside 3 others who from Southern Ontario. While we were there, we learned alot, witnessed a lot of realities that speak to the harsh conditions to the life of someone from a fly-in community.

Since then, I had been very excited and interested in the truth and reconiliation iniitiatives sought out by stakeholders in Canada. Furthermore, I continue to study and inquiry on various culture as related to students in my classroom and classrooms across the provinces within Canada.

While overseas in China, I had an experience of working on a "curriculum development" team back in the day (2017) in regards to Career Life Education at an overseas school called Maple Leaf World Schools (previous known as Maple Leaf International School), I know a lot of my ML rant is less than time worthy because generally I complain a lot about the same things, but in this case-I am sharing an interesting take on the adaptation of The First Nations' Principles of Learning (as shared with us in a curriculum development meeting by a liason) and examining how they were adapted to be understood by Chinese/International students within China.

I believe it was around 2017 that BC was beginning implementation of its new curriculum across the board. When the discussion of how to incorporate the values of the Canadian First Nation Peoples, a specialist in Canadian Education from BC who was Canadian-Chinese. This professional decided it was best to study both sets of learning principles and put them side by side.

I have attached a link to a copy of this PPT that was created based off the First Nations Principles of Learning provided below the PPT link, 

PPT: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/156SBNYfgvAmap52tOCYTP_RTHUrTRcKG/view?usp=sharing 

Original Document:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OlTIpoN_M36h1dS2NYiLVW7wGllEG8mK/view?usp=sharing 

This was interesting to watch unfold into the rest of the curriculum-it eventually turned into Global Perspectives which was the nature of discussing this-its quite related to a module 1 topic we are discussing in an FNMI ABQ.

Since 2017, it has been a personal goal to conduct further study into First Nations, Metic, and Inuit learning topics and pedagogies within Canada. It has been interesting to see how the international-scape of education removes accountability for the sake of a culturally responsive pedagogy. I have been since trying to make efforts with my team here at Huamei Bond International College to close those knowledge gaps and encourage experiences of which students going abroad (not only to Canada, but Australia as well) to get invovled in learning more about indigenous people to those areas.

If you would like to hear more or discuss how to make this effort more tangible, I am always interested in starting-up exchanges between schoolboards and our location here as well as inviting guest speakers to virtually meet and intrdouce culture to our students prior to their departure for Canada and other places around the world.