Courses
Courses are offered in-person, on-campus in the summer term only, as part of the Summer Institute in Teaching Foundational Indigenous Knowledge (pending sufficient enrollment).
The following courses will be offered in summer 2024. Students will choose one course in each two-week session:
July 8-18, 9:00 - 1:00 p.m. (M-Th)
EDU 560 Honoring Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing in Literacy Learning ★3
Instructors: Dr. Trudy Cardinal and Megan Tipler
This course is designed to transform understandings of Indigenous ways of nurturing literacy learning. Students will have the opportunity to participate in diverse experiences designed to deepen understanding of the potential of Indigenous knowledges and pedagogies for transforming understandings of Literacy and how we can inspire and nurture literacy alongside our next generations of children and youth.
EDU 561 Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Foundational Indigenous Knowledge and Knowing ★3
Instructor: Dr. Dwayne Donald
This course provides opportunities for students (as Individuals and as part of a collective learning community) to dwell with the key concepts and frameworks that inform current understandings of Indigenous curriculum and pedagogy. Particular attentiveness will be given to the idea of foundational Indigenous knowledge and knowing what those might be and how we might express our understandings of those in contemporary educational contexts. Sections may be offered at an increased rate of fee assessment, refer to the Fees Payment Guide in the University Regulations and Information for Students section of the Calendar.
July 22 - August 1, 9:00 - 1:00 p.m. (M-Th)
EDU 563 Supporting the Health and Wellbeing of Indigenous Students ★3
Instructor: Dr. Melissa Tremblay
This course is directed towards teachers who expect to work with Indigenous children and youth. It is designed to provide learners with a broad introduction to child and adolescent development from Indigenous perspectives, as well as promising practices for helping Indigenous students to reach their full potential.
EDU 595 Special Topics in Educational Theory - Indigenous & Relational Approaches to Assessment ★3
Instructors: Dr. Darlene Auger and Dr. Janice Huber
Guided by the principles of MÎYO OHPIKINÂWÂSÔWIN (good child raising) and PÎMÔSIHTA (an invitation to feel), this course is an invitation to journey back in time when our ancestors honoured the sacredness of children as gifts from Creator, knowing that each child, each spirit came with their own wisdom to be in this world, to walk in a good way, to explore, to experience, to feel, and to give back, to teach, to share their knowledge and wisdom in a forever cycle or spiral of life. As teachers, we are responsible for creating a sacred space for children to do what they have come here to do. We are merely guides and nurturers. Week by week, we will learn these ways of nurturing children by experiencing and thinking with them.