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Overview

Get the knowledge, self-awareness, and skills to address Indigenous-specific racism in adult learning environments.

Credential
VCC Award of Achievement
Tuition
Length
92 hours
Start Dates
Various

What you will learn

 

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to:

  • Design and deliver lessons that guide learners through the experiential learning cycle, demonstrating effective lesson design, teaching, and facilitation skills.
  • Discuss key concepts of racism and colonization, including the history and ongoing manifestations of colonization, and respond to common misconceptions and objections.
  • Identify and analyze the different ways learner resistance may manifest in response to discussions on colonial history and other Indigenous-related content.
  • Develop self-awareness on what may trigger facilitators and learners in the face of anti-Indigenous racism and resistance.
  • Use self-awareness as a tool for managing triggers in self and others when addressing anti-Indigenous racism.
  • Employ a range of specific strategies to unsettle the resistance and support learning in their classroom.
  • Discuss how co-facilitation and inter-racial facilitation can be used to navigate challenging situations in the classroom.
  • Demonstrate effective anti-racist facilitation, inter-racial facilitation, and co-facilitation skills in dealing with a range of facilitation scenarios.
  • Develop a sustainable reflective practice for ongoing improvement.
 

What to expect

 

A wide variety of instructional strategies is used in the program. Instructional strategies may include interactive lectures, story/scenario-based discussions, small-group and large-group in-class activities, guided self-reflection, case studies, role playing, and micro-facilitation and feedback cycles.

 

Admission requirements

 

English 12 with a minimum C- grade or equivalent, or departmental approval.

 

Recommended Characteristics

 

New and practicing facilitators teaching in adult education environment with particular focus on Indigenous facilitators working at the community-based level.

Racialized and White facilitators, particularly those working alongside Indigenous facilitators in an interracial co-facilitation setting, who may be dealing with anti-Indigenous racism in their teaching/facilitation.

 

Fees and other costs  

 
Fee description Fee Amount Notes
Tuition $3,200  
College initiative $14  
Campus resource $64  
Total $3,278  

Need help with tuition?

 

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Courses 

Course code Course name Credits Course outline
ARFC 3001 Anti-racist Facilitation 0 View
ARFC 3002 Develop Anti-racist competence 0 View
ARFC 3003 Anti-racist Intensive 0 View

 

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