Learning Styles and Diversity
Role and impact of learning style on the adult learner, particularly in the context of adults from a diversity of backgrounds. Theoretical, psychological, sociological and educational perspectives are examined. Implications for personal and institutional theory and practice.
Facilitated discussion, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to the Adult Education Programs.
Introduction to Adult Education: Surveying the Field
Theories and practices of adult education through mainly Canadian authors and video guests. Connections to many contexts of adult education and training.
Facilitated seminar, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Adult Education.
Note: opportunities for teaching practice and reflecting on experience are provided in practicum activities.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ADED 4F94.
Designing Instruction for Adult Learners
Creation of a detailed plan for an instructional unit using a curriculum development model. Decision-making in the step-by-step process guided by theories and practices of Adult Education.
Facilitated seminar, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Adult Education.
Prerequisite: ADED 4F04 (4F94).
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ADED 4F95.
Facilitating Adult Learning
Theories and practices of adult teaching and learning; instructional and evaluation strategies.
Facilitated seminar, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Adult Education.
Prerequisite: ADED 4F05 (4F95).
Note: teaching practicum assignment provides opportunities to put them into practice.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ADED 4F96.
Understanding Organizations and Leadership in Adult Education
Case studies and a series of Community Building activities to develop skills in group problem solving, negotiation, and consensus decision making.
Facilitated seminar, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Adult Education.
Prerequisite: ADED 4F06 (4F96).
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ADED 4F97.
Moving Forward in Adult Education
Development of roles as trainers and educators of adults in the future and examination of the larger issues affecting adult education in other parts of the world.
Facilitated seminar, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Adult Education.
Prerequisite: ADED 4F07 (4F97).
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ADED 4F98.
Aboriginal Adult Education: Beginning Our Journeys
Introduction to Aboriginal ways of learning and constructing knowledge and the relationships between culture/education and learning/healing.
Facilitated discussion, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Aboriginal Adult Education.
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 Aboriginal education.
Facilitated discussion, 6 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students admitted to Aboriginal Adult Education.
Prerequisite: ADED 4F84.
Instructional Strategies: Ways of Teaching and Learning for Aboriginal 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.
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.
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.