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.
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.