3 Practices Promote Intercultural Understanding In Canada

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3 practices promote intercultural understanding in Canada

From 2008 to 2014, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada documented the stories of thousands of Indigenous residential school survivors. Released in 2015, the final report included 94 Calls to Action: instructions to guide governments, communities, and faith groups towards reconciliation. Several of these Calls to Action are related to education, including asking that teachers engage in professional learning on how to integrate Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into classrooms and building student capacity for intercultural understanding, empathy, and mutual respect (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015). In Saskatchewan, teachers are guided by educational policy that envisions placing Indigenous knowledge systems, cultures, and languages at the foundation of our structures, policies, and curricula to create a system that is equitable and inclusive, benefiting

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