Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Early integration or early exposure for children to learn Indigenous language is not a new thing. We do provide funding effective 2018, this year, actually, for junior kindergarten, so they are included in the funding that is given to schools for Indigenous learning, Indigenous teaching. Even before that, I remember operating a daycare and, for many years, actually, looking to bring elders into daycare centres. It's always been promoted to actually utilize people that are from the land, from the speakers, into early childcare programming, remembering that JK is play-based. It is not curriculum based. It's not the same as K to 12. It is a play-based experience. Bringing in elders and using the programming, introducing the children to the language is utilized, but it is a different structure.
Caroline Cochrane on Question 620-18(3): Indigenous Languages in Junior Kindergarten
In the Legislative Assembly on February 26th, 2019. See this statement in context.
Question 620-18(3): Indigenous Languages in Junior Kindergarten
Oral Questions
February 26th, 2019
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