Learn about Canada’s history of colonization and the theoretical background of coloniality. Explore the idea of self-location and determine how you are personally situated within the ongoing colonial project. Establish goals for moving forward with your decolonizing learning journey. Focus is decolonizing the self.
Differentiate the concepts of Indigenous resurgence, Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation. Explore processes in educational systems that contribute to decolonizing outcomes, including embodied learning, land-based learning, Indigenous ways of knowing, Indigenous pedagogies, research as ceremony, and community-embedded learning. Focus is decolonizing in the system.
Explore what it means to enact pluriversal relationships in educational systems. Deconstruct hierarchal, binary, and authoritative assumptions about relationship in educational systems. Develop a communitarian orientation to educational relationships, focused on trust, generosity, and centering multiple perspectives. Focus is on decolonizing relationships within the system.