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The Right often attempts to distract & divide voters by constructing an imaginary 'crisis', offering a scapegoat & a misleading & simplistic mischaracterisation of an act/process. Today, the Mail offers #decolonisation, without saying what it is.
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The Right often attempts to distract & divide voters by constructing an imaginary 'crisis', offering a scapegoat & a misleading & simplistic mischaracterisation of an act/process. Today, the Mail offers #decolonisation, without saying what it is.
wonkhe.com/blogs-sus/shou…
#Decolonising the curriculum means expanding it to consider a wider range of voices, perspectives & thinkers within a subject. It is about informing & telling the whole story about any given subject – not 'erasing' it, as the right-wing press & politicians would have us believe.
#Decolonisation not only refers to the complete removal of the domination of external forces within a geographical space, but it also refers to decolonisation of the mind from the colonisers' (usually Eurocentric) ideas – ideas that usually made the colonised seem inferior.
Enjoying thinking about the value of different perspectives and knowledge production in a university context with @CamUniGeography this afternoon #decolonising #geography
#humility #respectfulness and learning from existing bodies of work, in particular African studies, is an opening theme.
Influences the everyday and across generations - need to recognise the 'colonial present'.
#100daysofCPD is where @UoB_HEFi will be beaming a spotlight onto #teaching and supporting #learning in #HigherEducation #CPD opportunities especially for #Beacon #HEAfellowship applicants & @uob_pgche participants during #COVID19 times & beyond
#100daysofCPD: #Day1 is the @UoB_HEFi #Learning and #Teaching Gateway. Full of self-paced online courses on a range of #technology and teaching topics. #BestPractice #CPD Go to birmingham.ac.uk/university/hef…
#100daysofCPD #Day2: @matt_tel_brum shares this Resource - How to Keep Uninvited Guests Out of Your Zoom Event containing all you need to know about Zoom’s #settings when using for #teaching, #meetings or #socializing during #COVID19 & beyond blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020…
Still processing the powerful discussion we had today in our #MA @ARUSociology session on #DecolonisingtheUniversity. A student shared her experiences of growing up in apartheid South Africa & feeling validated & 'seen' by the reading material. Became emotional as she talked
about how #apartheid affected her secondary & higher education in South Africa. Another shared his experiences of racism & racial abuse at his place of work in London, and how he'd envisioned a different kind of life in the UK when he migrated from Nigeria three years
ago. A third talked about being British in Zimbabwe and how her family had tried to convince her that the 'whites' were there to help the 'black people' and how she learnt to resist the 'civilising' narrative of #empire. A fourth discussed how her godfather rolled his eyes at her
#Decolonising #Development must be approached against a dual background of (a) optimistic anticolonial pushbacks like #RhodesMustFall & (b) renewed, frantic & violent attempts to hold on to the 'white man's world' - @o_rutazibwa opens the last #SussexDev lecture of 2017 @IDS_UK
@o_rutazibwa @IDS_UK The 'bathwater' here is #development as a system (ideologies, institutions, practices) which we may need to get rid of; we need to fight the desire to hold on to 'development studies' even if it has given us our professional identities (and paychecks) @o_rutazibwa #SussexDev
@o_rutazibwa @IDS_UK The 'baby' in this story is the ideas, desires and energy - global #justice, #solidarity, #reparations - righting the past and present wrongs that persist 'after' colonialism (the end of which was never quite the rupture we sometimes imagine) - @o_rutazibwa #SussexDev
