ADED 545

The literature on critical pedagogies connects knowledge to power and fosters empowering adult learning through the development of critical consciousness and praxis. Critical pedagogies invite students’ experiences as material for reflection and include civil rights and anti-oppression; racial, cultural, gender, and sexualities diversity; Indigenous rights; disability rights; and labour and class. Students will review the research on critical pedagogies and listen and learn from a diversity of discourses in order to respond to a complex world and promote social, political, and ecological justice. Completion of a critical literature review on a topic of interest is required. Credit will be granted for only one ADED 545 or ADED 510. Three credits.