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    Reflection on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls for Action Assignment

    Chloe Koehler

    501048288

    Early Childhood Studies, Ryerson University

    CLD 161 - 061: Field Education I

    Fathima Safra Najeemude

    Submitted February 23, 2021


    Reflection on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls for Action Assignment

    Truth and Reconciliation Commission is important within society, communities, and in early

    childhood education because as a whole, Canada needs to hear about the truth and the impacts

    Indigenous people face due to the effects of residential schools. Canadians need to be educated

    on this matter, especially because we collectively need to figure out what future steps should be

    taken to move forward positively. If Truth and Reconciliation is not implemented in curriculums,

    societies, and programs then we will never be able to move forward and the healing process will

    never begin and change will not occur ("Reconciliation Canada - Vancity", 2021).

    The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is important in guiding the ECE practice with

    children and families because it is important for a community to grow together and come to

    acknowledge and understand each other’s struggles and the issues people have and continue to

    deal with. If Truth and Reconciliation is not implemented within the ECE practice, then fellow

    children, classmates, and families will never be aware of the injustices, abuse, struggles, and

    hatred that is projected onto Indigenous people. Currently, I believe the Canadian education

    system fails to educate children, adolescents, and families on what Indigenous people

    continuously face to this day. The school curriculum does speak about the trauma caused during

    residential schools, however, it is rarely taught that Indigenous people are still dealing with the

    effects. It wasn’t until I was in grade ten that I was taught that Indigenous families are still

    separated and are disconnected from each other and people in Indigenous communities don’t

    have access to clean drinking water. It wasn’t my teacher that informed me of this either, it was

    the school librarian who spoke about it when she held a talking circle activity during lunch hours

    (Liao, 2020).
    Educating children and families are very important to my pedagogical commitment to

    decolonization because I want children to form an understanding and to recognize the structure

    of colonization to some extent and to see the damage it causes and how it affects the people

    around them. Because the concept of colonization may be a hard concept to grasp or fully

    understand, having children engage in activities that convey to them the idea and effects of

    colonization will help them to form an understanding. Forming this understanding early will help

    in pushing a new generation towards creating a society that achieves goals that gets us closer to

    change, healing, and religious freedom (McGregor, 2012).

    Although I think every Call for Action is important, two Calls for Action that I believe

    should guide my practice are calls 63 and 64. Call 63 outlines the expectation that the federal,

    provincial, and territorial governments make age-appropriate curriculums that teaches students

    about residential schools, treaties, Indigenous people and their history, and the contributions

    Indigenous people have made to Canada. Call 64 asks the government to provide funding to

    denominational schools and require them to educate the student on religious studies, including

    Indigenous beliefs and practices (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to

    Action, 2015). How I would respond to these calls is by ensuring that I incorporate activities that

    teach children about these things. I would read children books that are about Indigenous people,

    beliefs, and history and I would also do an activity as a class that incorporates everyone. For

    example, learning circle activities, which has been created to help educators and children to grow

    as a person and learn about First Nations (McCue, 2010).


    References

    Liao, K. (2020). 61 Indigenous Communities in Canada Still Need to Boil Water for Safety.

    Globalcitizen.org. Retrieved 20 February 2021, from

    https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/canada-indigenous-drinking-water-dangers/.

    McCue, H. (2010). The learning circle. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

    McGregor, H. (2012). Decolonizing Pedagogies Teacher Reference Booklet [Ebook] (pp. 4-8).

    Retrieved 21 February 2021, from

    https://blogs.ubc.ca/edst591/files/2012/03/Decolonizing_Pedagogies_Booklet.pdf.

    Reconciliation Canada - Vancity. Vancity.com. (2021). Retrieved 20 February 2021, from

    https://www.vancity.com/AboutVancity/InvestingInCommunities/Partnerships/Reconcili

    ationCanada/.

    Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. (2015). Truth and Reconciliation Commission

    of Canada: Calls to Action [Ebook] (pp. 7-8). Retrieved 21 February 2021, from

    http://trc.ca/assets/pdf/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf.

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