Workshops We Can Offer
Decolonizing your Curriculum I: Overview of Practice
Description:
| In recent years, there have been many calls to “decolonize your curriculum” or to “decenter your syllabus,” but what does this work actually entail? In this workshop, participants will explore ways to diversify course materials and content, teach to a range of student identities, and create inclusive course policies and syllabi. We will also discuss the pitfalls of using decolonization as a metaphor for teaching and learning (Tuck & Yang 2012). |
Learning Goals:
After successfully completing this workshop you will be able to:
- Define a “decolonized” pedagogy and interrogate this term in relation to white privilege
- Evaluate examples of “decolonizing the curriculum”
- Assessment
- Discussion
- Text selection/course content
- Practice decolonizing your own curriculum
Workshop Resources:
Materials:
Online Resources:
- Harvard’s Racial Bias Test
- “Decolonization is not a Metaphor,” Tuck & Yang
- “A Dozen-Plus Ways You Can Foster Educational Equity,” Sathy, Hogan & Sims
- “It’s time to decolonize that syllabus,” Yvette DeChavez.
- “Decolonizing Pedagogy,” Asilia Franklin-Phipps
- “Inclusive Teaching in STEM,” Dewsbury & Brame
- “Decolonizing your syllabus? You might have missed some steps,” Max Liboiron
- “Questions academics can ask to decolonise their classrooms,” Morreira & Luckett
- “Decolonizing Teaching,” St. Clair & Kishimoto
- Checklist for decolonizing your syllabus: https://tinyurl.com/decolonizesyllabus
- “Not Just the Syllabus, Throw the Whole Discipline in the Trash,” Ciarra Jones
Certificates:
Can apply toward these graduate student/postdoc certificates: