FreshEd #256 – Decolonizing Education (Riyad A. Shahjahan, Annabelle L. Estera & Kirsten T. Edwards)
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The Role of Location in Decolonizing the Curriculum
Location really matter when it comes to this process of decolonizing the curriculum in pedagogy. People were drawing on their own experiences of colonization and domination, their own unique, locally specific experiences and histories to inform how they understoodColonialization. And so we definitely saw distinctions in between like locations where European presence or the presence of white bodies were more prevalent versus locations where the Indigenous culture was much more on the surface. In South Africa, there was more emphasis on changing the higher education institutions.
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