Shifting Perspectives and Practices: Teacher Candidates’ Experiences of a First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Infusion in Mainstream Teacher Education

• Main Authors: Melissa Marilyn Fern Blimkie, Diane Vetter, Celia Haig-Brown
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Brock University 2014
• Subjects: Education; L; inuit
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/44cede3342504ca08e78db69af723541

This exploratory case study shares teacher candidates’ perspectives and experiences of the First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Infusion at ABC University’s Faculty of Education field site in XYZ, Ontario. For this initiative, Aboriginal content and pedagogies were infused throughout placements and courses of the mainstream teacher education program. Teacher candidates shared that the Infusion prepared them to teach Aboriginal content in culturally respectful and meaningful ways by providing them with a foundation to build on and helping them to develop teaching practices inclusive of diverse ways of knowing and being in the world. These findings may be useful to other educators developing and implementing their own infusion initiatives.