Course One: Identifying Our White Spaces

By the end of Course One, participants will have identified and analysed the barriers and the “white spaces” that impede progress towards developing programmes that are pluralistic and equitable. This includes analysis of barriers such as privilege and hegemony and how we perpetuate these in our teaching and learning practice.

5 modules

Modules Include:

  1. Know Yourself. Know your learners.

  2. Identifying “White Spaces”.

  3. Identifying “Sharks” (covert white spaces & practice).

  4. Dismantling White Spaces. What can we change?

  5. Where do I start? Implementing the modules.

 “I enjoy the way the material is paced, the narration and the interspersing of the activities. This really works in our situation as we are undertaking this PD as a leadership team of nine, and so we have scheduled time each fortnight to come together to discuss and share responses to the activities. I prefer this to the “read everything first and then write an essay” approach that much of my previous distance learning has been..”

— Liz Weir