Learning In Colour Resource

Emerging from United in Colour’s partnership with the MacPherson Insitute, Learning in Colour serves as a medium for knowledge mobilization and translation of the major findings of the research project. Specifically, with the support of the MacPherson Institute’s Student Partners Program and the McMaster Okanagan Charter’s Special Project Funding, we conducted a focus group with Black, Indigenous, and racialized students at McMaster University to explore their perspectives, experiences, and recommendations for enhancing student safety in the classroom and on campus more broadly. To supplement this work and produce a fulsome resource, we also drew upon previously collected data derived from former UIC-led projects, including Roché Keane’s RACE Report and Glenda Vanderleeuw’s Suggestion Box in the School of Social Work, and existing literature on the subject.

Learning in Colour is an important step toward (re)imagining what safety can look like in the classroom and on campus. It is the first of its kind at McMaster: an action-oriented digital platform to provide students, staff, and faculty with tangible steps to promote, uphold, and facilitate safer spaces, which are informed by the experiences and insights of racialized students. When university community members intentionally strive for inclusive, safer, and more equitable spaces in the classroom and beyond, we believe that students will have a more positive experience of their learning and may feel supported to engage meaningfully in various spaces across the institution.

Visit the Learning in Colour website to learn more and to access resources.

Read more at Social Sciences at McMaster.