Decolonisation in higher education

Advice on decolonising the curriculum across different disciplines and unpicking the impact of colonial and Western power structures on higher education and models of teaching and learning. These resources aim to help academics enrich education and scholarship through decolonisation, bringing in previously overlooked knowledge and voices and challenging long accepted norms within higher education.

By Miranda Prynne , 17 January, 2023
Primary sources can be used to diversify curricula and bring in marginalised voices. Jade G. Winn and Michaela Ullmann explain what library teams can do to support faculty and students in finding and assessing diverse materials
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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 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 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 , 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
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