Summer Institute
PBDE Summer Institute
Theme: (Un)Common Place
This years theme focuses on the reality that schools are simultaneously common places (ones we all share and ones that are often taken for granted) and also places where remarkably unexpected and unique things happen everyday. In a similar vein, the institute theme applies to the dual identity of Â鶹´«Ã½ as place often disparaged as being plain and flat while also being a stunningly diverse population and complex history where processes of reconciliation are being explored everyday.
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Jino Distasio
The Uncommonly Common Misconceptions about Homelessness and its Prevention
Jordan Bighorn, Executive Director of CEDA (Community Education Development Association)
Emerging Education Reconciliation Project
Course Descriptions
EDUC-5001-001 ST: Teacher Action Projects to Support 2SLGBTQIA+ Students
Instructor: J. Bergen
Dates and Times: July 7th to July 11th: MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L06
This course enables teachers to design and implement action projects that support Kindergarten to Grade 12 students of diverse sexualities and genders, including Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and asexual (2SLGBTQIA+) students. Topics covered will include current Manitoba policy, curricular, and social contexts, queer and trans theory in education, queer literacies, inclusive/expansive classroom practices, and relevant community resources. Through experiential and place-based learning, teachers will build the knowledge and skills necessary to synthesize theoretical and practical issues related to supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ students in their classrooms, schools, and communities.
*Students who hold credit in EDUC-5447 Sex, Gender, and Diversity can not hold credit in this course.
This course is offered in conjunction with the Summer Institute and may include off campus activities. This course counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5001-002 ST: Empathic Creativity
Instructor: K. Reimer
Dates and Times: July 7th to July 11th: MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L04
If we are to find solutions to the mounting list of challenges that we face locally, nationally, and globally, K-12 schools need to teach students more about the concepts of creativity, empathy, and inclusion. This course will teach participants about the different theoretical constructs of empathy, creativity, and inclusion, and ultimately align them into one effective framework called "Empathic Creativity". First, the course will define and describe concepts like creativity, empathy, and inclusion. Second, the course will examine and review current literature and research on the concepts of “Empathic Design” and “Inclusive Design”. Third, the course will explore the potential of merging some of the best components of creativity, Empathic Design, and Inclusive Design into a construct that will be referred to as “Empathic Creativity”. Finally, using an inquiry-based learning approach, participants will create a practical K-12 school "unit" involving the principles of Empathic Creativity and present their units to the class.
This course is offered in conjunction with the Summer Institute and may include off campus activities. This course counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5001-001 ST: Teaching Human Rights and Global Citizenship in Manitoba
Instructor: L. Kornelsen
Dates and Times: July 7th to July 11th: MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L08
Even though the concept of human rights is a universally imagined idea, it is mostly understood and honoured through local experience and day-to-day living. Because of this and because the world—indeed our own society—is made up of myriads of ways of being and knowing, a commitment to human rights necessitates a dance between the universal and the plural, between the global and the local.
And so, while thoughts of human rights give rise to universal imaginaries, they can only ever be taught in the local, in the here and now, in this place. This course examines current and emerging issues in global human rights, often assumed and referenced in provincial K12 social studies curricula, and then explores their various pedagogies, ones that necessarily navigate the ground between global concerns and local responsibilities, recognize the local-global reciprocating nature of rights, and consider the implications in teaching for citizenship in global contexts or global citizenship.
*Students who hold credit in HR-2600 Emerging Issues in Human Rights can not hold credit in this course.
This course is offered in conjunction with the Summer Institute and may include off campus activities. This course counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5001-002 ST: Play and Pedagogical Imagination
Instructor: C. Dunnington
Dates and Times: July 7th to July 11th: MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: 1L07
This course proposes play in all its guises, while constantly returning to the idea that play offers us a rich space for pedagogical imagination. Topics will range from familiar notions of play (dramatic play, messy play, risky play), to pedagogical schools of play (Reggio Emilia, in particular), to more recent discussions of play as an intriguing site for considering largescale injustices (i.e. environmental degradation and colonization).
This course will locate play. Play is situated and play is political. Thus, this course also proposes that “attending to relational play compositions in small everyday spaces allows us to open pedagogical possibilities for playing”; students are invited to deeply consider play as it relates to their own histories, their own presents, and the histories and presents of their students (Climate Action Childhood Network, 2023).
This course will trouble notions of play that signify innocence, or the childlike. Nevertheless, it is a course in which students will play themselves, and all over Â鶹´«Ã½ at that. In the simplest terms: in this course we are going to “do playing” while asking “what does play do”?
This course is offered in conjunction with the Summer Institute and may include off campus activities. This course counts as an elective in the General stream.
EDUC-5001-252 & 010 ST: Designing with the Circle of Courage
Instructor: K. Lamoureux
Dates and Times: July 7th to July 11th: MTWThF; 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: TBA
Using the Circle of Courage as a teaching model, this course will explore the richness of that model through the lens of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous pedagogies, reconciliatory practices, decolonization and the teachings of the people whose land on which our schools operate today. Such an exploration will necessitate an intentional and sustained exploration of the impacts of colonialism, using tools of decolonization to create space for reimagining business as usual. As a post-bac offering this course will challenge not only academically, but also professional capacity to safely explore spaces in which singular truths may not exist and unresolved conflict must be tolerated. This course is meant to provide interested teachers already working in their career an opportunity to meaningfully apply the Circle of Courage and related concepts to their teaching philosophy and practice.
This course is offered in conjunction with the Summer Institute and may include off campus activities. This course counts as an elective in the Indigenous Knowledges and General streams.