0043 - Decolonizing Education Certificate, Module 8, "Learning from the Land: Decolonizing & Naturalizing Relations"
Course Description
This module will help participants learn about their individual, familial, cultural, and professional position from the lands, waters, and climate within which they live and work. A series of teachings will be conducted in relation to different places that bring to our attention particular land, beings, and ancestral relations. Through interactive engagement and storytelling, participants will learn about the history of colonial relations, human responsibilities in creation, and how to hold ourselves in times of climatic changes.
Course Outline
This module will:
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Be conducted relationally to the lands, waters, and climates within which participants live and work.
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Discuss human responsibilities in relation to all of creation.
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Draw attention to the stories and treaties of Turtle Island that can inform one’s ways of living, working, and studying
Learner Outcomes
Participants will:
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Draw insights from story, place, and their ancestral origins to build upon their relationship to land, water, and climate.
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Engage the practice of Truth-Telling as a basis for naturalizing one’s relations.
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Consider what their learning means for changing or developing ways of living, working, and studying.
Notes
This workshop is developed and delivered by the Centre for Indigegogy. To learn more about the Centre for Indigegogy, please visit our website wlu.ca/fsw/indigegogy.
Due to the sensitive nature of our programming, we do not permit Zoom recordings or the use of AI note-taking technology.
Questions? Please contact us at indigegogy@wlu.ca.
Recommendations
This workshop makes up 14 out of 84 hours required to receive the Decolonizing Education Certificate.Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Decolonizing Education Certificate : Decolonizing Education Certificate