0342 - Facilitating Decolonizing Knowledge

Course Description

This two-day module developed and delivered by the Centre for Indigegogy will focus on the training of teachers and trainers in a sense. This module is a transfer of decolonizing knowledge and works with participants toward teaching folks about how to facilitate decolonizing curriculum, decolonizing education, and decolonial practices. This session is in response to a request from participants of the Decolonizing Education Certificate and sets a foundation for decolonial work.

Participants will be introduced and consider how to teach decolonizing knowledge from a conscious and methodological approach

Participants will begin to recognize how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and racism underpin colonization

Build an understanding of a systemic and structural approach to colonization toward facilitating decolonizing knowledge

Learner Outcomes

East: Consider, reflect and dialogue about facilitating critical conversations about the politics of colonization of Turtle Island.

South: Recognize how to engage methodologically a structural approach to understanding and teaching decolonial practices in educational settings.

West: Build knowledge about generating decolonial spaces of critical learning and consciousness shifting.

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.

Questions? Please contact us at indigegogy@wlu.ca