EDUC-390 - Making the Classroom a Healthy Place - 3.00 Credits

EDUC-390 - Making the Classroom a Healthy Place - 3.00 Credits
Course Details
Indigenous communities and educational institutions have inherited and continue to endure non-holistic learning that puts a narrow emphasis on cognitive outcomes and excludes emotional learning and skill development. This class will discuss the history of affective suppression as a form of colonialism and document its impact on the education of Indigenous peoples in North America. Students will explore Indigenous learning methodologies, affective neuroscience and philosophical arguments for developing the emotional dimension of education. This class will introduce a transformational view of learning within a cultural pedagogy that builds on a concept of affective development based on a holistic educational philosophy.
Part of the: CAREER TRAINING (EDUCATION) Department
Available/Required in the following Programs: Indigenous Adult Instructor Diploma - Certificate Completion Plan

Prerequisites : English 12 or English Studies 12 or English First Peoples 12 or ENGL 060, or equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Familiarity with curricula design and instruction is recommended.
Course Outline

Instructors Qualifications:	Relevant Master's Degree
Office Hours:	1.5 per week
Contact Hours:	45
Student Evaluation Procedure:	Assignments 50 - 70%, Final 30 - 50%, Total 100 %. Grading procedures follow NVIT policy.
Learning Outcomes:	Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to: create Emotional Competencies in Students while teaching any subject in the classroom; incorporate the principles of emotional education into concrete lesson plans; apply the principles of emotional education to curricula; explore the history of emotional colonization; understand the scientific, Indigenous and contemporary arguments for a curriculum of emotional development; create holistic curriculum that develops cognitive and affective student competencies; create more holistic approach to a curriculum of the self that ensures student success; become conversant with the emotional education curriculum development guide; promote positive learning identity in the classroom; and articulate the process whereby Instinct made conscious becomes emotion; emotions structure as values; values structure as identity; and identity becomes the foundation of learning.
Text and Materials:	Brown, L. Making the classroom a healthy place: The development of emotional competency in holistic transformative education. . Current Edition, Unpublished
Other Resources:
Transfer Credits:	For more information visit: www.bctransferguide.ca
Other Information:	Education Council approved April 30, 2014.