"Champion writes that the KAIROS blanket exercise — an activity used to teach participants about the deleterious effects on Indigenous people when Europeans settled in North America — brainwashes children."
As long as this is balanced with the vast benefits aboriginals received from Europeans: medicine, rule-of-law, horses, writing, free education, reliable food, clean water, consumer goods, electricity...
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I looked up the KAIROS thing. Had never heard of it. Lots of UTube videos of it. It is basically emotional role-play. Basically they lay out a bunch of blankets on the floor and the participants read emotionally-charged scripts loosely based on a very one-sided narrowly focused informal view of Indigenous history. As the Indians die off due to disease/war/famine the participants slowly get emotionally removed from the game and the remaining Indians get emotionally moved onto smaller and smaller more tightly folded blankets in the end you have a couple Indians standing on one tiny blanket which represents their remaining reserve land & population now.
It is not all that dissimilar to Shakespearean historical plays in that it glorifies only one specific side of history, and likewise to Shakespeare it is presented as a tragedy. I think it might be an interesting learning activity that would be suitable for mature Grade 10 to 12 students who already have a basic understanding of history in something like a drama class.
The guy's point is legit though. It is not history. And if it is to be presented to Kindergarten to Grade 4 as history, as is proposed, then it is pure on brainwashing.
The teaching of history has always typically began in about Grade 8 when you have enough reading skills to actually start to understand it. And the teaching of Canadian history has to start with at least a minimal level of the cluster fuck that is European history. And then you have to bounce back and forth between North America & Europe as you slowly gain more understanding.
The guy's point is that a kid who can barely read Green Eggs & Ham can get nothing out of this exercise other than brainwashed. And that the people who are pushing this know this and are promoting an agenda, NOT educating children.
"Champion writes that the KAIROS blanket exercise — an activity used to teach participants about the deleterious effects on Indigenous people when Europeans settled in North America — brainwashes children."
As long as this is balanced with the vast benefits aboriginals received from Europeans: medicine, rule-of-law, horses, writing, free education, reliable food, clean water, consumer goods, electricity...
Naturally, all comments on this post are disabled.
I looked up the KAIROS thing. Had never heard of it. Lots of UTube videos of it. It is basically emotional role-play. Basically they lay out a bunch of blankets on the floor and the participants read emotionally-charged scripts loosely based on a very one-sided narrowly focused informal view of Indigenous history. As the Indians die off due to disease/war/famine the participants slowly get emotionally removed from the game and the remaining Indians get emotionally moved onto smaller and smaller more tightly folded blankets in the end you have a couple Indians standing on one tiny blanket which represents their remaining reserve land & population now.
It is not all that dissimilar to Shakespearean historical plays in that it glorifies only one specific side of history, and likewise to Shakespeare it is presented as a tragedy. I think it might be an interesting learning activity that would be suitable for mature Grade 10 to 12 students who already have a basic understanding of history in something like a drama class.
The guy's point is legit though. It is not history. And if it is to be presented to Kindergarten to Grade 4 as history, as is proposed, then it is pure on brainwashing.
The teaching of history has always typically began in about Grade 8 when you have enough reading skills to actually start to understand it. And the teaching of Canadian history has to start with at least a minimal level of the cluster fuck that is European history. And then you have to bounce back and forth between North America & Europe as you slowly gain more understanding.
The guy's point is that a kid who can barely read Green Eggs & Ham can get nothing out of this exercise other than brainwashed. And that the people who are pushing this know this and are promoting an agenda, NOT educating children.