
Considering Indigenous Environmental Issues in Canadian Curricula: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Author(s) -
Gregory Lowan-Trudeau,
Teresa Anne Fowler
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the canadian association for curriculum studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-4467
DOI - 10.25071/1916-4467.40438
Subject(s) - indigenous , curriculum , critical discourse analysis , commission , sociology , environmental ethics , political science , social science , pedagogy , law , ecology , philosophy , ideology , politics , biology
This article presents insights from a curricular review of Canada’s ten provinces and three territories with a focus on critical Indigenous environmental issues. This inquiry was conducted amidst nationally prominent events and socio-ecological movements such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Idle No More and numerous oil and gas pipeline protests. We share findings revealed through this review informed by Eisner’s (2002) three curricula—the explicit, implicit and null—and a qualitative critical discourse analysis methodology.