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  Article 1: Integrating Aboriginal Teaching and Values into the Classroom – Pamela Rose Toulouse (2008) The article revolves around the importance of integrating the teachings and values of the Aboriginals in the classroom to improve the self-esteem and academic performances of the Aboriginals students. Toulouse says that identity, culture and belonging are directly connected to the success of students (Toulouse, 2008). She offers a cultural context of reshaping classroom practice using the Ojibwa Seven Living Principles (respect, love, bravery, wisdom, humility, honesty and truth). The main point is that significant incorporation of Aboriginal voices is not an inclusion tool, but a required change in pedagogy, the curriculum, and school culture. These concepts relate well to my concept of innovation in teaching and learning. Technology or new strategies often come with innovation, yet as Toulouse reminds us, innovation can also be about going back to relational, holistic and comm...

  Curtis - "The State of Tutelage in Lower Canada, 1835-1851" Curtis (1997) reading opened my eyes to the role of education in colonial control. Following the 1837-38 Rebellion, the British government attributed the cause to defective political education and resolved to put residents under much broader relations of tutelage than attending school (p. 25).To be innovative, Curtis demonstrates that authorities continued to enact laws Municipal Acts in 1840, 1845, 1847, 1850, and School Acts in 1841, 1846, 1849. According to the Durham Commission, citizens required a gradual learning of their social obligations in the school of practical citizenship (Curtis, 1997, p. 32). However, this innovation was not an improvement but an imposition of liberal democracy on unwilling people.The only source of creativity was the resistance to “la guerre des eteignoirs”. Residents resorted to seizing and burning school records, murdering or crippling the horses of local authorities, and burning ...

Bourn - "Pedagogy of Hope: Global Learning and the Future of Education" Bourn's (2021) article introduced me to a concept I had never considered before: the impact of hope on teaching, learning, innovation, and creativity. He states that "educationists have to bring hope into their teaching”, though it must be grounded in realism (p. 68). This actually expanded my view of our role. Today, education is characterized by a neoliberal approach that focuses on quantifiable data rather than connecting learning to real-life problems (Bourn, 2021, p. 67). Bourn provides Black Lives Matter, climate change, and COVID-19 as examples that need realistic hope. This builds up what Ojala refers to as the ability to engage in anticipatory thinking, the ability to think in a future-oriented manner (Bourn, 2021, p. 69). To be innovative and creative, Bourn discusses how Giroux, in his approach, has created an educated hope that corresponds to the pedagogical and the political, emphasi...