Adult Education Courses
ADED 4F84
Foundations of Teaching and Learning in Aboriginal Adult Education
Theoretical foundation of both Aboriginal and mainstream approaches to adult education. Emphasis on critical analysis of issues related to the teaching of Aboriginal adult populations, reflection on personal and professional attitudes towards teaching and learning.
Facilitated discussion, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Aboriginal Adult Education.
ADED 4F85
Curriculum Theory and Design in Aboriginal Adult Education
Introduction to an Aboriginal approach to creating curriculum through a community-based developmental model. Topics include decolonization, relationship between learning and healing, learning outcome development and global Indigenous trends in adult education.
Facilitated discussion, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Aboriginal Adult Education.
Prerequisite: ADED 4F84.
ADED 4F86
Instructional Strategies: Ways of Teaching and Learning for Aboriginal Adult Education
Issues in Aboriginal and mainstream adult education including learning styles, evaluation, storytelling, experiential learning and lesson planning.
Facilitated discussion, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Aboriginal Adult Education.
Prerequisite: ADED 4F85.
ADED 4F87
Aboriginal Leadership Issues: Healing, Learning and Leadership
Relationship between the colonial experience and contemporary Aboriginal leadership; contemporary policy-making processes and the wider role of the Aboriginal trainer/teacher in our communities.
Facilitated discussion, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Aboriginal Adult Education.
Prerequisite: ADED 4F86.
ADED 4F88
Aboriginal Teacher Development: Understanding our Journeys
Reflective theory and practice through a series of hands-on activities designed to encourage both professional renewal and awareness of self as Aboriginal teacher and learner.
Facilitated discussion, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Aboriginal Adult Education.
Prerequisite: ADED 4F87.