Subject: Educational Foundations
Credit units: 3
Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
College: Graduate and Postdoc Studies
Department: Educational Foundations

This course examines how critical digital and anti-oppressive education are intertwined in complex ways. Drawing from diverse theoretical frameworks and empirical studies, the course explores how current extremist ideologies are normalized, authorized, and circulated through on-line media. How this process naturalizes White/Western supremacist patriarchal ideologies and distrust of public education systems will be examined. The course also investigates how on-line conspiracy theories, disinformation, and misinformation exacerbate political polarization and violations of Indigenous, human, environmental, and democratic rights. How critical digital education can both strengthen and impede anti-oppressive pedagogies, and specific innovative prevention and intervention pedagogical methods, will be explored.

Restriction(s): Course open to students in Educational Foundations, College of Education.

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