#Teaching – Digital Journal

United Nations Economic and Social Council. (2018). Action plan for organizing the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages.

November 19, 2018November 18, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“Indigenous languages also represent complex systems of knowledge developed and accumulated over thousands of years. Local languages are indeed a kind of cultural treasure; they are repositories of diversity and key resources for both understanding the environment and utilizing it to the best advantage of local populations, as well as of humanity as a whole. They foster and promote local cultural specificities, customs and values which have endured for thousands of years.” (p 2-3)

Patton, M. A. (2000). The Importance of Being Flexible with Assignment Deadlines.

October 8, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“This article suggests ways in which course providers, by circumventing traditional academic policies and showing maximum flexibility and understanding to non-traditional students, can bring high-risk students long-term positive results …” (p 417)

Serra & Schoolman (1973). Television Delivers People.

September 25, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

Everything on television is educational in the sense that it teaches something. [0:01:28]

Gomez-Zuebisch (2010). Introduction. (A phenomenological exploration of the learning values derived from instructional short videos among adult learners.)

September 24, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“To this resistance, Mitra responded with a quote from the science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke who stated ‘A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be’.” (p 27)

Chambers (2015). Language Nests as an Emergent Global Phenomenon.

June 26, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“This literature review demonstrates that approaches to language nest program development and delivery are shaped by many factors such as: Indigenous language status within the community, population size, availability of fluent speakers and early childhood educators, state legislation and funding, and access to materials and resources in the target language.” (p 26)

Everett-Green (2015). How my neighbourhood looks and sounds in Ojibway.

June 25, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“In another Spreecast, about learning indigenous languages, Coast Salish teacher Khelsilem Rivers, founder of the Skwomesh Language Academy in Squamish, B.C., said he isn’t interested in language apps, CD-ROMs or anything that involves working from English translations. Fluency is impossible with ‘that English brain controlling things.’ Full immersion is the only way, he said…” (¶21)

Goulet & Goulet (2014). Breaking Trail: Stories Outside the (Classroom) Box. (Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies.)

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“Many students have reported that ‘traditional life’ in the wilderness brings a feeling of serenity and peace to one’s heart and spirit” (p 186)

Hall (1984). The Dance of Life. (The dance of life: The other dimension of time.)

January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“One clue is that the Japanese are more aware of synchrony than the average Westerner. Those tremendous Sumo wrestlers, for example, must synchronize their breathing before the referee will allow the match to begin, and the audience is fully aware of what is happening. In this same vein, Japanese who are conversing will frequently monitor their own breathing in order to stay in sync with their interlocutor!” (p 164)

Goulet & Goulet (2014). Ininee mamitoneneetumowin, Indigenous Thinking: Emerging Theory of Indigenous Education. (Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies.)

January 9, 2018January 9, 2018 by Orest Kinasevych

“However, one of the contradictions of schooling is while it can be an institution of colonization, it also has the potential to decolonize (Smith 2000) and support the development of self-determination for Indigenous students and their communities.” (p 200)

Russell (2009). The Functions Of A Teacher. (Unpopular Essays.)

December 27, 2017December 27, 2017 by Orest Kinasevych

“In our more highly organised world we face a new problem. Something called education is given to everybody, usually by the State, but sometimes by the Churches. The teacher has thus become, in the vast majority of cases, a civil servant obliged to carry out the behests of men who have not his learning, who have no experience of dealing with the young, and whose only attitude towards education is that of the propagandist.” (p 110)