The complications of engaging with why the decolonisation of ‘knowledge’ matters to teaching and learning in higher education (ESAI)

Dina Zoe Belluigi*

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Abstract

In postgraduate modules in education, I present opportunities for participants to engage inter-textually with deliberations on (a) why knowledge (singular) should be decolonised within the modern western-oriented university; (b) why the decolonisation of knowledges matter, with consideration of their relation to the formations of the self, social and ecological in education; and (c) what the potential act(s) of decolonising knowledge - through education - holds for engendering critical and generative roles which educators should occupy.

This presentation reflects on the local reception of such curriculum engagements designed to elicit thinking and action about the relation of universities’ knowledge production to the global common good. This will include the ways in which aspects of the hidden curriculum are entangled with those who people, and that which texts, the class environment, and wider institutional spaces.

As it has provided complex challenges and allowances for moments of mutual recognition and learning, I will include tentative reflections on how this may in part due to the reception of my positionality as a South ‘African’ racialized a ‘white’ in a university in Northern Ireland; and anticipated solidarities with those in diaspora from the majority world.

Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 30 Mar 2023
EventEducation Studies Association of Ireland Conference : Education, change and democratic societies: new imperatives and creative responses - Stranmillis College, Belfast, United Kingdom
Duration: 30 Mar 202301 Apr 2023
http://esai.ie/conference-2023/

Conference

ConferenceEducation Studies Association of Ireland Conference
Abbreviated titleESAI
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBelfast
Period30/03/202301/04/2023
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Keywords

  • Decoloniality
  • Knowledge
  • University
  • higher education
  • teaching
  • scholarship of teaching and learning

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