Course Description Addressing Anti-Black Racism to Change Pedagogy and Practice, Part I focuses on the challenges faced by educators in ensuring that Black learners are provided with every opportunity to succeed as they navigate the educational system. By the end of the course, you will have examined ways to explore, amplify and centre the voices …
Course Description This course is designed to build your capacity to understand the historical foundation of anti-Black racism in Canada, to recognize its damaging impact on systems of education and to be a leader in the implementation of effective strategies to dismantle it. You will reimagine curriculum and pedagogical practices in an effort to maximize …
“Environmental education is education about the environment, for the environment and in the environment. It promotes an understanding of the positive and negative consequences, both intended and unintended, of the reciprocal relationships between human-created and earth’s grand natural systems.” (Roberta Bondar et al., Shaping our Schools, Shaping our Future: Environmental Education in Ontario Schools, 2007) The …
Environmental Education Part 2 builds on the concepts explored in Part 1. You’ll continue to develop your professional practice and leadership capacity in environmental education through professional dialogue, collaboration, inquiry and reflection. In this course you’ll think critically about environmental education using various pedagogical approaches and through the lenses of ethical practice, legislation, human rights, …
Environmental Education Specialist builds on the concepts explored in Parts 1 and 2. In this course you’ll further develop your professional practice and leadership capacity in environmental education, explore real-world connections to the environment for students and colleagues, critically analyze environmental curricula, and advance your skills in leading positive environmental change for your students, school, …
