Lecture 7: Decolonizing Health/ Sport Policy Flashcards
What is reconciliation?
An ongoing relationship. It’s important we do heartwork to understand orange shirt day.
If we do not bring up land when talking about decolonization and reconciliation, what is happening?
we are not going towards decolonization and reconciliation.
sport has played a historical role in the ______________.
assimilation of Indigenous Peoples
What does racism in sport do for indigenous peoples do?
erases any attempts to define sport/physical cultural practice because they were legitimized by colonial standards
what type of process is reconciliation?
a circular process of learning and then relearning and contextualizing new ideas around health.
what type of relationship do we have with health?
dynamic. its always changing
Decolonial Health and PE Policies of Heartwork
once they learn about all the stuff Indigenous people deal with, they are going to want to help, not just because its their job.
What are the 7 sacred teachings?
Wisdom, humility, respect, love, bravery, truth, honesty
What is reconciliation by the T.R.C.?
About coming to terms with events of the past in a manner that over one’s conflict and establishes a respectful and healthy relationship among people going forward.
How are education systems falling short of reconciliation?
Post secondary have a lack of teachings about Indigenous peoples and the residential schools.
how can the theory of critical multiculturalism be understood?
as recognizing the significance of ethnicity and culture without essentializing them, unequal power relations, that culture must be understood as part of the discourse of power and inequality and the need for constant critical reflexivity of ethnic and cultural practices.
what is critical multiculturalisms focus and what does it align with?
focus’ on linking culture to power and multiculturalism to antiracism and is aligned with our particular interest in the reconciliatory potential of utilizing culturally appropriate resources that support learning about Indigenous peoples and to support learning among indigenous students.
what is the difference between liberal and critical multicultural perspectives?
liberal aims to address ‘the problem’ of ethnic and cultural diversity through efforts of simple recognition of ethnic, cultural and/or linguistic differences. There is no need to explain the teaching, they just do it to “check off the box” in PE class. While critical multiculturalism consists of “understanding, engaging, and transforming the diverse histories,
cultural narratives, representations, and institutions that produce racism and other forms of discrimination”
what could happen if something is taught in PE about indigenous without any context?
stereotypes and misguided information. they may see indigenous as violent or savages instead of what the actual meanings were/
