Decolonising the curriculum

By Miranda Prynne, 21 July, 2022
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Teaser
While many academics are interested in decolonising curricula, fewer feel confident in where or how to start. The term ‘decolonisation’ is often misconstrued as a process of deleting or dismissing past teaching. In fact, decolonisation can enrich curricula, setting existing knowledge and education in the context of colonialism and Western power structures and bringing in previously marginalised voices and perspectives.
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While many academics are interested in decolonising curricula, fewer feel confident in where or how to start. The term ‘decolonisation’ is often misconstrued as a process of deleting or dismissing past teaching. In fact, decolonisation can enrich curricula, setting existing knowledge and education in the context of colonialism and Western power structures and bringing in previously marginalised voices and perspectives. This collection of resources explores the process of decolonising curricula across different disciplines, with a special THE Campus webinar featuring four academics from the UK and Australia unpicking this complex and important topic.
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By Eliza.Compton, 12 December, 2024
Good intentions and generalisations can harm reconciliation in the classroom and academy, writes Daniel Sims
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 23 December, 2022
Decolonisation has the potential to rattle higher education’s sandstones and ivory towers, yet many struggle to know where to start. Karen Lambert and lisahunter use the context of initial teacher education in Australia to explain that it starts with you
By Miranda Prynne, 22 November, 2022
Academics and students from five countries worked together to decolonise a reading list for a public health module, through a global lens. Here, they describe how they did it
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 1 December, 2022
Mathematicians have always looked at old problems in new ways. A database of original sources will give university-level mathematics students a global, historical view of their subject
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 20 July, 2022
A panel of academics from Campus+ institutions in the UK and Australia discuss the what, why and how of decolonising the curriculum
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60minutes
By dene.mullen, 4 May, 2022
People today seem to want their history to be linear and totalising, but it is only by addressing the messiness of the past that we can understand the present
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4minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 13 April, 2022
Decolonisation should not be limited to arts and social sciences, but many struggle with how to apply it across STEM disciplines. In her first resource, Musarrat Maisha Reza shares advice on effective approaches to decolonising medicine
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3minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 14 April, 2022
The decolonisation of medicine involves making students active agents of their learning and designing assessments relevant to the skills gained through the process, as Musarrat Maisha Reza explains in her second advice resource on the topic
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 11 August, 2022
Untangling business studies from the discipline’s imperial origins might seem an insurmountable task, but it’s up to university leaders to take the lead on this complex challenge, reflects Bobby Banerjee