Rooster Town
In the article “Rooster Town” Sinclair emphasizes how Indigenous communities often experience forced removal from these types of spaces, where they had lived for generations.
What is urban spaces or urban Indigenous communities?
Sherman argues that early-years teachers can help students develop this core value, which encourages respect for diverse perspectives and fairness through the choices they make when setting up their classroom.
What is democracy?
Educators should use these four questions to engage students with Indigenous history, focusing on understanding history from these perspectives.
What is Indigenous viewpoint of Indigenous voices?
This article stresses that one of the goals of teaching historical thinking is to help our students recognize this in historical narratives.
What is bias or perspective?
Brown and Anderson argue that this practice in the context of early childhood is essential to fostering inclusive environments and addressing issues related to race and gender as they arise.
What is open dialogue?
Sinclair uses the story of Rooster Town to discuss this broader historical theme, referring to the displacement and marginalization of Indigenous peoples within cities in Canada.
What is colonialism?
Fostering this type of learning in elementary classrooms encourages students to participate actively in class decisions and collaborative projects.
What is participatory learning?
This article encourages teachers to critically examine the role of this group in shaping what we know about Indigenous history and to question historical narratives about their involvement.
What is settler colonialism?
This article states that teaching historical thinking skills to our students encourages them to consider not just what happened, but why it happened, with an emphasis on these types of historical events.
What are cause and effect?
According to the article if as adults we ignore race and gender issues in early childhood education it can contribute to the development of these harmful societal views.
What is stereotypes?
Sinclair's work emphasizes that while Indigenous people in Rooster Town faced adversity, they still maintained these core cultural practices, which helped them survive and adapt.
What are cultural traditions or resilience?
This article promotes many different activities to promote citizenship and democracy. Name 2.
Sharing circle, show & tell, question of the day, voting on classroom decisions.
This article advocates for teaching Indigenous history in a way that emphasizes this idea, which challenges the one-sided narratives prominent in history and promotes diverse historical perspectives.
What is multiple perspectives?
According to Miles et al., teaching historical thinking helps students move beyond the memorization of facts and focus on understanding this aspect of historical events, which includes change over time.
What is continuity and change?
This article suggests that by discussing race and gender topics early on, educators can help children develop this crucial skill, which is important for understanding diversity and equality.
What is empathy?
The city used several tactics to ensure public opinion stayed negative. Sinclair focuses on one tactic predominately as a major force in ensuring public opinion stayed negative about rooster town.
What is Media?
Listening to a friend read can help students develop this crucial skill.
The article promotes four guiding principles. One of them the author has labeled as extremely hard to do in the classroom.
What is community-based and active histories?
One of the key skills in historical thinking is understanding that history is often shaped by this, which can vary depending on who is telling the story.
What is perspective or point of view?
The authors of this article argue that it is crucial to discuss race and gender in early childhood because children as young as this age are already forming ideas about these concepts.
What is three or four years old?
Rooster Town was a prominent Metis community on the outskirts of Winnipeg. What is the name for this kind of community.
What is Fringe Community?
Sherman argues that teachers should act as _____ in elementary education, guiding students to actively engage in learning and decision-making rather than adopting an authoritative role.
What is a facilitator?
Teachers of Indigenous History are tasked to teach a wide variety of topics within this domain. Teachers need to find __ between the different topics in order to not showcase a certain narrative in their choice of topics.
What is balance?
The historical thinking context in which students learn to approach history critically, asking questions about the motives and influences behind this process.
What is historical perspective taking?
The article suggest that adults first consider this before they discuss the topic of race or gender with a child.
What is the child’s own identity?