CELT Educational Developers receive STLHE grant to explore the application of critical race theory on professional development
Two Educational Developers from the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching were recently awarded a grant from the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) (external link) aimed at furthering available resources for educational development in Canada. These peer-reviewed grants, which range between $500 and $3000, are also intended to speak to areas of interest or concern not currently addressed in existing work.
Jenny Ge and Renée Ferguson received funding for their project which will focus on the exploration of how to support post-secondary educators in having critical and compassionate conversations about race in the classroom.
Findings from this project will go on to inform how educators engage with and are supported by educational developers in implementing anti-racist pedagogies.
“Right now there are a number of universities and colleges putting anti-racism pedagogies as a priority for teaching and learning. Some educators have been calling for this for some time, while for other educators, this signals an important moment in educational practice. At the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, we see the importance in not only supporting our colleagues to be able to engage with this with both humility and confidence, but to also try to explore and disseminate best practices and strategies for anti-racist education. It's not a "like to have," strong anti-racism pedagogy can translate into life-changing impacts for students and community.”
As part of their grant, they will also be hiring a graduate student with demonstrated academic focus on critical anti-racism, anti-colonialism, anti-oppression, and social justice in order to support this work.
