Start here: Welcome and learning objectives
Who is this for? This self-paced resource is designed for post-secondary faculty and staff in Manitoba. Its purpose is to enhance understanding of power, privilege and oppression in the post-secondary context, and to provide strategies and teaching techniques for advancing EDI in teaching and learning.
About this resource
- Estimated time: 2 hours
- Format: Asynchronous, self-paced
- Interactivity: Includes optional reflection prompts and linked resources. While these embedded links are not essential to engaging effectively with the module, they have been included to allow learners to explore additional relevant resources if they wish.
- Support: This resource is not instructor-led, but your institution may offer additional programming.
Important note
At points throughout the module, you will be asked to reflect on your own past experiences. If you find any of these reflection prompts to be emotionally challenging, feel free to skip them or to use the text boxes to explore other ideas or feelings that you find relevant to the material.
Nora’s Welcome Message
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Susie’s Welcome Message
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Learning objectives
By the end of this module, learners should be able to:
- Reflect on the connection between supporting equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and advancing decolonization, Indigenization and reconciliation in teaching and learning.
- Recognize the importance of decolonization, Indigenization and reconciliation as faculty and academic staff, both within classrooms and outside of them, and the ways that teaching and learning practices are influenced by the positionality and social identities of educators.
- Discuss understandings of the Indigenous stewards of this land, including worldviews, epistemologies and pedagogies.
- Recognize the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization, including treaties, residential schools and current interpersonal and structural racism.
- Discuss Truth and Reconciliation, and actions for decolonization, Indigenization and reconciliation in our classroom communities.
- Identify a variety of pedagogical and instructional strategies and activities that advance Indigenous rights and sovereignty and facilitate processes of decolonization and reconciliation in teaching and learning.
Module Content
This module includes the following components:
| Topics | Overview | Estimated time to complete |
|---|---|---|
| Indigenous contexts of Manitoba | Explores ways of living and learning (worldviews, epistemologies, pedagogies) of Indigenous communities located within Manitoba. | 22 minutes |
| The impact of colonization | Examines the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization, including treaties, residential schools, and current interpersonal and structural racism. | 34 minutes |
| Pathways to decolonization, Indigenization, and reconciliation | Discusses the differences between decolonization, Indigenization, and reconciliation, as well as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Final Report, specifically the Calls to Action related to education, and education for reconciliation. | 31 minutes |
| The power of educators | Explores different pedagogical and instructional strategies and activities to facilitate processes of decolonization and reconciliation in the classroom. | 36 minutes |
