Brian Marshall

Kari Veblen
December 14, y

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Dolloff,L.(2015)AQuallunaaqonBaffinIsland:ACanadianexperienceofdecolonizingthe
teacher.ForthcomingInBartleet,B.L.,Bennett,D.,Power,A.&Sunderland,N.(Eds.).Arts
basedservicelearningwithFirstPeoplesTowardsrespectfulandmutuallybeneficial
educationalpractices.NY:SpringerPublishing.

In Dolloffs article, A Quallunaaq on Baffin Island: A Canadian experience

of decolonizing the teacher, Dolloff writes about the image and stereotypes
within teaching and as teachers and the ideal teacher that students have in
their minds. I enjoyed the approached taken to decolonize the teacher.
Having students draw their ideal teacher was a different approach that I
never thought of that came with pretty good results. Stereotypes are
prevalent in our everyday world, this is something that is not new to us,
especially within the realm of teaching, but I still managed to find some of
there stereotypes within the article surprising. For example, everyone drew
there teacher to be a white female teacher. This is surprising, but I also think
this could of been due to the sample. The sample consisted of 150 drawings
that were elicited from music education students studying at universities,
colleges and conservatories Covering a span of 3 countries: Canada, China
and the United States of America. One of my issues with this is that its a
decent sample size but not a diverse sample size. Lack of diversity (only 3
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sample countries) will lead to the failure for uniqueness. One of the reasons
why they might of got so many of the similar drawings is because of lack of
diversity. Im almost certain that if they had added a European, Caribbean,
and/or African country that they would of discovered more things about
teaching and way less similar outlooks on what the ideal teacher is in the
mind of students. Even though we have these ways of putting things into a
category, like a male band conductor, I think this underlying meaning of this
article also relates to teaching. By this I mean that if we restrict ourselves
when teaching, For example only looking at methods of teaching within your
city, then it restricts any possible growth as a teacher. I understand that this
might not what the article was going for but this is what I got out of it and
think that this will be a very helpful way of thinking when a teacher. If I could
say one thing to Dolloff is that it was interesting how people have instilled
stereotypes of teachers and of what makes and ideal one, but my question is
what in what way do we want to fall into these stereotypes? And how can we
do it in a positive way?

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