Aboriginal leader calls for indigenous education initiatives – Vancouver Sun
Canada would be a better place if everyone had better knowledge about indigenous languages and cultures, aboriginal leader Wab Kinew told hundreds of education leaders in Whistler on Wednesday.
Kinew, who is a musician, journalist and University of Winnipeg vice-president for indigenous relations, was speaking at a national conference for school principals and vice-principals called Connecting Leaders: Inspiring Learning.
In an inspirational and moving presentation, Kinew said if the goal is to cultivate innovation in schools, students should be taught that there is more than one way to think.
“Shouldn’t we teach … that there is a variety of world views? Some of those new ways of thinking about problems should come from indigenous people,” he said.
