Indigenizing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Graduate

This course employs a two-eyed seeing approach to Indigenizing teaching and learning in higher education. Through reflection, story-telling, and dialogue, students will explore critical questions of Indigenization, what it means in the context of teaching and learning, and why it is important. In-class activities will model Indigenous pedagogies and take a relational and collaborative approach to fostering allyship, avoiding appropriation, and identifying various strategies to balance Indigenous approaches with Western conventions. Students will have the opportunity to engage in experiential, land-based, and relational learning from an Indigenous perspective and reflect on how they might apply these approaches to their own courses and disciplines. CTLP-8300 University Teaching Capstone This course addresses current and emerging teaching and learning issues, topics, and concerns, and serves as a forum where students can explore and challenge their teaching and learning assumptions. Students will learn about theories and models of reflective practice and communicating their teaching identity. They will also have the opportunity to observe and practice teaching and learning concepts and theories learned in the Graduate Diploma in University Teaching (UTD). As this course is the final requirement for participants in the UTD, it is expected that students have an understanding of the basic theories and principles of higher education. (Prerequisite: Admission into a graduate program; completion of UTD pre-requisites: CTLP-8100; CTLP-8200; Two of CTLP-8110, CTLP-8120, CTLP-8210, CTLP-8220, SCIE-8001)