Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 62

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Québec"

Updates on this page: 8
 

February 11, 2023


As more high schools add Indigenous- focused compulsory courses, some warn against a siloed approach

‘Reconciliation will only exist … when we see it in every aspect of a student’s experience,’ says professor CBC News: As a Shakespeare fan who loves sharing his work with students, Windsor, Ont., English teacher Carolyn Howlett admits she felt a bit apprehensive when her board began work shifting its Grade 11 English course to focus...

November 30, 2021


Québec Education responses to Viens Commission

Québec government is investing $19.4 million to implement three measures covering: direct student support instructional material and program review The government wishes, in this way, to implement the recommendations of the “Inquiry Commission on Relations Between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress”, and “the National Inquiry into Missing and...

November 20, 2020


15th competency: Understanding and Learning to Fight Systemic Racism

The “15th competency: Understanding and Learning to Fight Systemic Racism” for teachers and teacher education programs, developed by a joint effort by the First Nations Education Council, Institut Tshakapesh and the Centre de développement de la formation et de la main-d’oeuvre huron-wendat has received the full support of the Provincial Education Table First Nations Student...

April 15, 2020


Kativik Ilisarniliriniq launches Inuit-centered Education resource portal (Nunavik-IcE)

Kativik Ilisarniliriniq launches today the Nunavik Inuit-centered Education resource portal (Nunavik-IcE), a website dedicated to educational resources in Inuktitut, English and French. The Nunavik-IcE portal features lessons and other local resources collected and developed by the Education Services department in collaboration with teachers, elders and knowledge holders as well as staff and partners who support...

January 14, 2020


Revamp of Ethics and Religious course

 The Quebec Ministry of Education announced plans to revamp its ethics and religious culture course. The First Nations Education Council has noted that his reform is taking place at a time when the government must respond to the Viens Commission’s calls to action, which include the recommendation to “further enrich the Québec curriculum by introducing...

June 19, 2018


Replacement of Secondary III history textbook

Replacing its Secondary III history textbook for next year with a version that will “better reflect the Indigenous perspective.”...

June 19, 2018


Québec History book replacement

Replacing its Secondary III history textbook for next year with a version that will “better reflect the Indigenous perspective.”...

August 23, 2017


Funding for Innu students to retain language and culture

$185,000 in funding for the 2017-18 academic year to promote retention and academic success among Innu students and to foster appreciation of culture and language among Indigenous youth by enabling some 1,800 students living in seven Innu communities on Quebec’s North Shore to retain their culture and their language through the development of teaching materials...

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