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Alberta’s social studies curriculum design has gone woefully wrong

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Alberta's new kindergarten to Grade 6 social studies curriculum was created through an opaque process. It neglects basic Canadian social studies content, such as major aspects of colonization. Curriculum experts have detailed how it contains little skill development, misses the mark on child development and lacks adequate opportunities for critical thinking.

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Alberta’s social studies curriculum design has gone woefully wrong

Imagine a new school is being built, but it’s amateur builders who get charged with creating blueprints — and the education minister insists it is safe because the ministry “consulted” engineers who in reality had no say. Sounds absurd. And yet, the drafting of Alberta’s new kindergarten to Grade 6 social studies curriculum is following a similar trajectory. The recently released draft was created through an opaque process that effectively shut…

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