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 out Alberta’s foremost educational experts. Maren Aukerman writes. Maren is a Werklund research professor of education at the University of Calgary. Published April 3, 2024. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/04/03/Alberta-Education-New-Social-Studies-Curriculum-Design-Fail/