The Applying Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Classroom, Exploring Pedagogical Dispositions and Methods to Transformative Justice in the Classroom is a condensed offering of the A-RTL Applying Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Classroom cohort-based program. In this day long workshop, we will ground our conversations within the body of work of cultural humility and culturally sustaining pedagogies, with a focus on building teaching and learning practices that grapple with the often messy yet realistic intersections and nuances of cultural strength and trauma in the classroom.
In this program, participants will critically examine the principles of trauma-informed teaching, transformative justice, and abolitionist education and translate theory into concrete curricular and classroom climate mitigation strategies that disrupt racial silencing and harm by focusing on ethics and asset-based frameworks to anti-racist teaching and learning.
Program Outcomes
By the end of this program, we expect participants will:
- apply principles and practices of anti-racism, solidarity, trauma informed practice, cultural humility, and cultural sustaining pedagogy to their teaching practice;
- develop critical analytic skills which leverage a deeper understanding of the differences between cultivating a safe, brave, and ethical classroom climate and trauma-informed learning space;
- feel empowered to take risks and explore pushing anti-racist pedagogies into the arena of transformative, decolonial and abolitionist methods of teaching;
- be equipped to create learning environments and caring classrooms that support the funds of knowledge, cultural modeling, language, cultural practice, and literacy of IBPOC students and scholars;
- build connections to a community of educators engage in progressive anti-racist work;
- inspire one another to be hopeful and motivated for the future of this work.
Program Format
In-person, requiring active, in-person participation in discussion and activities.
It is important to note that participants will come from a range of lived experiences and social identities related to race and other oppressed histories. We kindly ask each of you to help create an atmosphere of mutual respect, attentiveness and mindfulness. All learning materials are designed/used for the purposes of critical reflection, careful dialogues, and further collective transformation.
Who is it for?
This cohort program is designed for Faculty, early career scholars, sessional lecturers, post-doctoral candidates, and Teaching Assistants who teach and/or assist with academic for-credit courses at UBC. This workshop is designed to best serve an audience who possess some foundational knowledge on how racism operates (for example understanding concepts such as power and privilege, positionality, the ongoing impacts of colonization, systems of oppression, etc.) as we will explore the application and complexities of anti-racism, cultural humility, abolitionist teaching, and trauma-informed approaches within the classroom space, rather than building conceptual understanding of these concepts.
For any inquiries, please contact Renata Hall at renata.hall@ubc.ca.
