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Aboriginal and Indigenous Courses
Special Topics Graduate Courses:
SES2999:
Aboriginal Peoples and the Politics of De-Colonizing
SES2999:
Aboriginal Women's Voices
SES2999:
Anti-Colonial Thought and Pedagogical Challenges
SES2999:
Cultural Knowledges, Representation and Colonial Education: Sociological
Implications in Education
SES2999:
Indigenous Peoples and Medias
Graduate
Courses (listed in Bulletin):
SES1925:
Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonization: Pedagogical Implications
SES2970:
Countering Myths about Aboriginal People through Multiple Media
Students May be Approved for Additional Special Topics Courses with Aboriginal and Indigenous Content
Methods Courses
SES1902:
Introductory Sociological Research Methods in Education
SES3910:
Advanced Seminar on Race and Antiracism Research Methodology in Education
Aboriginal and Indigenous Courses
SES2999: Aboriginal Peoples and the Politics of De-Colonizing
Myths about
Aboriginal peoples are produced in cultural forms and cultural practices.
Cultural productions which replicate and reproduce these stereotypic images
include media, film, photography, newspapers, and other written texts.
This course will endeavour to dispel these myths through careful, critical,
and multiple readings of 1) papers and books which produce these myths
or provide alternatives to these myths, 2) the Royal Commission on Aboriginal
Peoples Report, 3) selected films which provide access to thse myths
and counter them through integration of story, sound, and image, and 4)
selected locations on the Internet where myths are produced and countered.
This course will draw upon literature in Aboriginal education, feminist
studies, postcolonial and cultural studies, and antiracist studies.
| Instructor: Judy Iseke-Barnes
email: jisekebarnes@oise.utoronto.ca |
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Stories are told, poetry is written,
engagement in activism unfolds, and critical reflection is expressed in
Aboriginal women's texts. As Aboriginal women we speak out against injustice
and for the lives and roles of women in community, focus upon healing communities,
lives and mother earth. The focus of the course is to hear Aboriginal women
as they work to transform a consciousness theorizing from Aboriginal perspectives
and reformulating feminisms from Indigenous perspectives.
| Instructor: Judy Iseke-Barnes
email: jisekebarnes@oise.utoronto.ca |
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This advanced seminar will examine
the anti-colonial framework as an approach to theorizing issues emerging
from colonial and colonized relations. It will use subversive pedagogy
and instruction as important entry points to critical social praxis. Focusing
on the writings and the commentaries of revolutionary/radical thinkers
like Memmi, Fanon, Cabral, Gandhi, Machel, Che Guevera, Nyerere, and Nkrumah
the course will interrogate the theoretical distinctions between anti-colonial
thought and post-colonial theory, and identify the particular implications/lessons
for critical educational practice. Among the questions explored will be:
the challenge of articulating anti-colonial thought as an epistemology
of the colonized ancored in the indigenous sense of collective and common
colonial consciousness; understanding power configurations embedded in
ideas, cultures, and histories of marginalized communities; the understanding
of indigenity as pedagogical practice; the pursuit of agency, resistance,
and subjective politics tjrpigj amti-colonial learning; the investigation
of the power and meaning of local social practice/action in surviving colonial
and colonized encounters; and the identification of the historical and
institutional structures and contexts which sustain intellectual pursuits.
| Instructor: George J. Sefa Dei
email: gdei@oise.utoronto.ca |
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SES 2999: Cultural Knowledges, Representation and Colonial Education: Sociological Implications in Education
With the
advent of colonialism, non-European traditional societies were disrupted.
Cultural knowledges and traditional educational practices were swept away
and replaced. This course revisits history to celebrate the vast array
of cultural diversity in the world. The course interrogates how various
media have taken up these knowledges and presented them to the world in
the form of texts, films, and educational practices, and it examines how
colonial education sustained/s the process of cultural knowledges fragmentation.
This examination of cultural knowledge portrayal serves to deepen insights
and to develop intellectual skills to cultivate a deeper understanding
of the dynamics generated through representations and the role colonial
education played/s to sustain and delineate particular cultural knowledges.
The course also explores the various forms of resistance encountered in
the process of this fragmentation. For example, the Maasai of East Africa
have become the spectacle or exotic remnant of an indigenous African culture.
We will examine how groups such as these have maintained their cultural
base, and how this has been commodified, commercialized and romanticized.
| Instructor: Njoki Wane
email: nnathaniwane@oise.utoronto.ca |
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Cultural productions in which
Indigenous peoples engage to tell stories include media, film, photography,
newspapers and written texts. This course will endeavor to understand
Indigenous texts through examining media, film, and multimedia sources
written and produced by Indigenous peoples (including experimental and
independent productions). This course will exclusively involve literature/productions
from Indigenous authors, storytellers, filmmakers, photographers and activists
whose compelling stories and productions engage in decolonizing, cultural
vitalization and self-determination.
| Instructor: Judy Iseke-Barnes
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SES1925: Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonization: Pedagogical Implications
This seminar
will examine indigenous and marginalized knowledge forms in global contexts
and the pedagogical implications for educational change. It begins with
a brief overview of processes of knowledge of production, interrogation,
validation, and dissemination in diverse educational settings. There is
a critique of theoretical conceptions of what constitutes "valid" knowledge
and how such knowledge is produced and disseminated locally and externally.
A special emphasis is on the validation of nonwestern epistemologies and
their contributions in terms of offering multiple and collective readings
of the world. Among the specific topics to be covered are the principles
of indigenous knowledge forms; questions of power, social difference, identity
and representation in indigenous production; the political economy of knowledge
and science education; indigenous knowledge and global knowledge; change,
modernity, and indigenous knowledge. The course uses case material from
diverse social settings to understanding different epistemologies and their
pedagogical implications.
| Instructor: George J. Sefa Dei
email: gdei@oise.utoronto.ca |
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Myths about
Aboriginal peoples are produced in cultural forms and cultural practices.
Cultural productions which replicate and reproduce these stereotypic images
include media, film, photography, newspapers, and other written texts.
This course will endeavour to dispel these myths through careful, critical,
and multiple readings of 1) papers and books which produce these myths
or provide alternatives to these myths, 2) the Royal Commission on Aboriginal
Peoples Report, 3) selected films which provide access to thse myths
and counter them through integration of story, sound, and image, and 4)
selected locations on the Internet where myths are produced and countered.
This course will draw upon literature in Aboriginal education, feminist
studies, postcolonial and cultural studies, and antiracist studies.
| Instructor: Judy Iseke-Barnes
email: jisekebarnes@oise.utoronto.ca |
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Methods Courses
SES1902: Introductory Sociological Research Methods in Education
An introduction
to basic research methods appropriate for teachers and other students of
sociology in education. General consideration will be given to technical
problems with emphasis on the underlying research process and its practical
implications for schools.
| Instructor: Paul Olson
email: polson@oise.utoronto.ca |
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This advanced
graduate seminar will examine multiple scholarly approaches to researching
race, ethnicity, difference, and antiracism issues in schools and other
institutional settings. It begins with a brief examination of race and
antiracism theorizing and the exploration of the history, contexts, and
politics of domination studies in sociological and educational research.
The course then looks at ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions,
and critical methodological reflections on race, difference, and social
research. The course will focus on the ethnographic, survey, and historical
approaches, highlighting specific qualitative and quantitative concerns
that implicate studying across the axes of difference. We will address
the issues of school and classroom participant observation; the pursuit
of critical ethnography as personal experience, stories, and narratives,
the study of race, racism, antiracism projects through discourse analysis;
and the conduct of urban ethnography. Through the use of case studies,
we will review race andantiracism research in cross-cultural compararive
settings and pinpoint some of the methodological innovations in social
research on race and difference.
| Instructor: George J. Sefa Dei
email: gdei@oise.utoronto.ca |
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