Depth Education Design

Part of: Depth Education Series

Course description

This advanced course is for individuals who have completed at least one of the Facing Human Wrongs courses and wish to learn about how to design depth education experiences in their professional contexts. Unlike mastery education, depth education does not predetermine what learners should think or do. Instead, it supports participants in navigating volatility, complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity by expanding their capacity to hold space for a multiplicity of perspectives, paradoxical claims, and conflictual relationships without feeling overwhelmed or immobilized. At its heart, depth education fosters the development of contextual judgment while issuing a call for emotional sobriety, relational maturity, intellectual discernment, and intergenerational responsibility. 

Course Methodology: This course invites participants to consider learning designs that can support expanding the capacity of those they work with to practice.

Contextual Judgment: Developing the ability to make decisions based on contextual flows and relationships rather than predetermined methods and outcomes.

Emotional Sobriety: Cultivating the ability to stay grounded and present in the face of complexity, difficulty and emotional challenges.

Relational Maturity: Building responsible relationships that recognize and address systemic neglect, harm and complicity.

Intellectual Discernment: Sharpening the ability to critically evaluate and discern complex information and perspectives.

Intergenerational Responsibility: Tracing the historical imprints and the long-term implications of actions and decisions, embracing the need to correct ancestral mistakes and considering obligations to future generations.

Learning objectives

Students who take this course will be supported to:

  • Distinguish between Mastery and Depth: Understand the differences between mastery-oriented and depth-oriented inputs, questions, evaluation and feedback.
  • Design Depth Learning Experiences: Learn to create educational experiences using a depth education approach.
  • Apply Regenerative Inquiry Principles: Implement principles of regenerative inquiry within professional contexts.

Delivery

The course consists of three self-paced modules, which are un/learning bundles with several invitations that will become available in each week of the course. The optional live Zoom sessions will happen on Saturdays April 12, 19 and 26 from 10:30 am to 12 pm PDT. The sessions will be recorded and embedded in each module. We recommend engaging with as many invitations in each module as you can before the live session. 

Please note: the April 5 start date is the date when course resources and instructions for the first live session will become available on the Brightspace platform. The first live session will follow on April 12 from 10:30 am to 12 pm PDT.

Course fee

This course includes a sliding fee scale. When registering, please select the fee type that applies to you. 

  1. Base fee: The base course fee is $350 CAD (with 50% of net proceeds redistributed to Indigenous-led projects in the amazon and Northeast of Brazil)

  2. Pay-it-forward fee: Please consider paying 50% more ($525 CAD) to contribute towards the participation of more people if you:
    • Have the ability to comfortably meet all your basic needs and have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education, social class or other forms of privilege
    • belong to a sponsoring organization, are employed full-time or work part-time by choice
    • own the home you live in, have investments, retirement accounts, inherited money, or have access to family money and resources in times of needs
    • travel recreationally

  3. Reduced fee: You can also choose the reduced fee ($175 CAD) if you:
    • Have difficulty covering basic expenses for you and/or your family
    • have medical expenses not covered by insurance
    • are an elder with limited financial support

Prerequisites

It is highly recommended that participants in this course have completed at least one of the Facing Human Wrongs (FHW) courses: FHW: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability, FHW: Unsettling Wellness or FHW: Leading in the Metacrisis. Firsthand experience with these courses will enhance understanding of more nuanced aspects of the educational approaches and frameworks presented in the Depth Education course.

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Continuing Studies statement on use of educational technology

This course will require the use of Zoom and may use other education technology such as internet-based applications, cloud services, or social media. In order to complete this course you will be required to either consent to the disclosure of your personal information outside of Canada to enable use of these technologies, or work with the Division of Continuing Studies to explore other privacy protective options (such as using an alias or nickname).