Change We Believe In

            During this week, articles that we read centered on the broader questions of “how we teach, how we learn and why that matters for sustainability?” The chapter written by David Orr’s entitled “The discipline of problems and the problem of disciplines” approached these questions by exploring the disconnects, obliqueness, and the inabilities of our current educational systems of knowledge acquisition that is so restrictive, specialized in context and lacks transformative learning processes in the applicability of theorized knowledge and concepts as an integrative and holistic system. Orr argued that before intellectual and specialized knowledge can be taught, there is a need to firstly provide our students with the systemic approach of studying a particular subject. He suggested that they could learn about a particular subject or natural system using the system approach by exploring the subject in its entirety in relatio...

Abstract ‘Black refugees’ have been racially profiled and discriminated on the basis of their skin color in most developed countries where they have been resettled. Over the last few years, black refugees most especially from Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have been racially discriminated against in Canada. Racial discrimination of black refugees in Canada is a crucial issue that needs to be addressed to ensure refugees’ rights are respected and dignified. It is also significant to eliminate the various levels of discriminations that follow at the workplace, accessing local and national services such as education, healthcare and fostering the process of cultural integration. The racialized discrimination of refugees is a violation of the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of which Canada is a signatory. This literature review explored the current trends and dynamics of racial discrimination of blac...