CMTYENGA 3E03
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN PRACTICE WITH EMPOWERMENT SQUARED
Spring/Summer 2026 · C01
Topics
- Introductions and Expectations; Introductory Concepts
- Structures of Learning: Inquiry-Based Learning and Asset-Based Approaches
- Critical Pedagogy: What Is It?
- Community, Teaching, and Freedom
- Hamilton: Successes and Challenges
- Indigenous Pedagogies
- Neurodiversity and Education
- Childism, Innocence, and Who is Afforded Innocence
- Recontextualizing Readings: Facilitations
Readings
- Freire, Paulo. “Chapter 1” in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (pgs. 43-69)
- hooks, bell. “Teaching 1: Critical Thinking” (pgs. 7-11) and “Teaching 2: Democratic Education” (pgs. 13-18). Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2009).
- DeLuca, Patrick F., et al., “The Code Red Project: Engaging Communities in Health System Change in Hamilton, Canada.” Social Indicators Research 2012 108.2 (2012): 317-327.
- Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, “Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3.3 (2014): 1-25.
- Azuka, Chukwuma et al., “Inclusive Instructional Design for Neurodiverse Learners.” Current Perspectives in Educational Research 7.1 (2024): 56-67.
- Annamma, Subini Ancy. “Introduction: Prison Nation and the School-Prison Nexus” and “Public Schools and the Criminalization of Difference — Destruction and Creation” in The Pedagogy of Pathologization (pgs. 1-27)
- Review readings
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Campus Store (short title) ↗
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Spring/Summer 2026
- Some readings or course materials are supplied through Avenue to Learn; public bibliographic details may be incomplete. Readings or materials are mentioned without a public bibliographic title in this field.