Global College
Institute for Literacy
and Transformative Learning
Director: Deborah Schnitzer
204.786.9281
The Institute for Literacy and Transformative Learning provides for community engagement in the university classroom.The variety of approaches to learning within the context of transformative learning embrace holistic, process-based, learner-centred, interactive, problem-solving modes of discovery, analysis and action. The Institute works with university and community educators and activists to develop partnerships that include the offering of university-credit courses, workshops and actions dedicated to literacy, peace and justice making and creative social change. Such partnerships explore advocacy and activism in relation to multiple literacies: human rights education, adult and family literacy, participatory democracy, conflict resolution, interfaith dialogue, creative campaigning and global citizenship. Courses and workshops often engage community service-learning, popular education and popular theatre techniques and involve participants in the shaping of course materials, actions, learning goals and modes of assessment and reflection. Related practices support the sharing of knowledge through the building of sustainable networks, idea marketplaces and teach-ins.
Actions: Get Involved
1. Teach - In:
Integral Education Teach-In with Judith Harris.
Friday, September 21st
12:30 - 2:30pm
"Integral education recognizes the wealth of informal knowledge that exists at the community level. By promoting a learning society, the university contributes to a more equitable, more inclusive world; societies in which gatekeepers and professionals erect barriers to participation by the majority of people will not be prepared to address the complex issues that are emerging in the 21st century.”
Teach-In with Jennifer Clary-Lemon
Friday, November 16th
12:30-2:30pm
2. Workshops:
Supporting A Centre for Transformation (ACT) on a number of activist projects including.
- Social Justice Activist Retreat. An interactive and engaging workshop on popular theatre and self care for social activists.
- From Outrage to Action. Human Rights Workshop Series sponsored by Amnesty International including topics such as Turning the Tide on Torture, Leading an Effective Group, Introduction to Letter Writing.
For more information on future series contact Louise at lsimbandumewe@mountcarmel.ca.
The next offering of these workshops will be Fall 2007.
3. Retreats:
4. Events: The Last Picture. More details to follow.
Courses:
2181/3 Creative Tools for Social Change. This course covered topics including non-violent actions, petitioning, designing popular education tools, history of social movements. This course will be offered during the 2008 University of Winnipeg Third Term. For more information please contact Loraine at 775-8817.
17.3180 The Making of Peace and War in Literature. This course focuses on the tradition of literary and cultural representation of conflict, both the extensive tradition of war literature and the less well-known body of literature that examines peace as something other than the absence of war.
17.3120 Practicum in Literature, Literacy and Language. The Practicum enables students to initiate and complete a volunteer work placement with organizations that support the development of literature, literacy, language and culture in Manitoba.