Decolonising SoE by Leon Tikly https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp Meaning making en-us 2021-12-15 06:25:32 UTC 2026-06-11 11:41:46 UTC hello@padlet.com rafaelmitchell1 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2029678342 In-person conference / event in July to showcase work going on in schools in Bristol / the South-West ?
This could be a means of showcasing teacher-led initiatives in the region, sharing research and resources (inc from our former MSc students & others who have conducted dissertation research in this area) & develop / strengthen networks & partnerships in this space]]> 2022-02-04 15:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2029678342 Special Issue for Studies in Philosophy and Education on philosophical perspectives on TE with international authorship inclusive of perspectives from HK, Taiwan and South Africa; chapter on schools and religion; post-colonial perspectives where we have the editors' support to challenge the claim to 'global reach' on which the rest of the book is based! https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032684851 2022-02-07 09:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032684851 Time. Status of the work https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032685179 2022-02-07 09:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032685179 Create leadership time to promote decolonising on the taught and hidden curriculum https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032685982 2022-02-07 09:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032685982 Think differently about the HK portfolio, one way or another. Develop an international online masters which offers a pipeline into a part time doctoral offer that creates affordable access to high quality teaching and learning for wider groups of students/ PGRs both in the UK and further afield who can work as well as studying https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032692212 2022-02-07 09:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032692212 Education for all and everyone is getting equal opportunity. https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032778251 2022-02-07 10:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032778251 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032779294 Revise the current reference list of courses to make it more diversified. ]]> 2022-02-07 10:52:02 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032779294 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032780091 Agree! It’s about time. ]]> 2022-02-07 10:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032780091 rafaelmitchell1 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032819051 Use our status as a School of Ed/University to promote/amplify existing initiatives (particularly school-based ones) and join-up communities of practitioners & researchers working in this space]]> 2022-02-07 11:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2032819051 actively seeking research and resources from the global south to enhance our understanding of teaching and learning. https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035002575 2022-02-08 09:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035002575 Time! for example: Auditing reading lists is important but time consuming and few people have the capacity for this work. https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035005076 2022-02-08 09:05:54 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035005076 Auditing our reading lists. https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035006096 Once we have established the make up of our reading lists, we can work on giving equal weight to voices less often represented in research]]> 2022-02-08 09:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035006096 I'm currently reflecting on my own teaching practise and how I can adapt my content to include and reflect a wider range of voices https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035011482 2022-02-08 09:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035011482 harnessing student enthusiasm for this work and asking for their help with auditing our resource lists. https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035014018 2022-02-08 09:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035014018 Further embedding global literature into the PGCE English programme; explicitly addressing decolonising themes on a subject day lornasmith2 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035059570 Lit in Colour | Supporting inclusive reading in schools (penguin.co.uk)]]> 2022-02-08 09:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035059570 Published research about the need for greater breadth and inclusivity in literature choices made in schools https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/pgceenglish/files/2020/06/NATE_TE_Issue-23_88pp-Journal-Summer-2020_P30-33_SMITH_V3-1-002.pdf lornasmith2 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035067821 2022-02-08 09:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035067821 Time to actively explore appropriate texts/resources with which we are not yet familiar lornasmith2 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035073401 2022-02-08 09:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035073401 I'm increasingly asking myself more questions re: content, representation, etc. lornasmith2 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035076678 2022-02-08 09:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035076678 The subject Librarian Team are aiming to develop "decolonising your research" workshops https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035362926 how to look beyond the global north, how to assess resources in a way that doesn't exclude lesser heard voices, the politics of citation. We are hoping to offer a workshop for academic staff before the end of the year, so they can reflect on their teaching materials for 2022/2023. We would also like to add a re-occuring workshop for students to our regular library events (following on from the basic introduction to finding resources/ using databases etc) ]]> 2022-02-08 12:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2035362926 acknowledging and critically examining the influence of colonial legacies on education systems julianbrown3 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2037803158 2022-02-09 12:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2037803158 rafaelmitchell1 https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2037839421 The working groups today focus on teaching & research - but what about our role as a partner with other ed institutions (especially schools), our civic engagement role? This is esp important for the decolonising agenda, given the unconducive national policy context for antiracist/decolonial work

]]> 2022-02-09 13:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2037839421 Reading lists are a good, tangible starting point. The framing of the curriculum itself is a problem if we're serious about decolonising https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2037847243 2022-02-09 13:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2037847243 Woolly definitions - with the possibility of 'everything' being decolonising - or nothing https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038030826 2022-02-09 14:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038030826 A shared definition that the school as a whole can stand by - of what we understand by decolonisation - what it looks like when we see it - and some statement of what the goals and outcomes of these processes might be https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038032658 2022-02-09 14:37:35 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038032658 Not seeing the points of connection with other agendas - so that we miss opportunities to amplify shared objectives and joint actions - intersectionality https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038034396 2022-02-09 14:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038034396 Is this decolonisation? Not sure... but https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038049526 https://www.commoncauseresearch.com/]]> 2022-02-09 14:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038049526 One of my fears is that people who 'don't agree' or 'understand' decolonisation will not feel comfortable to push back - and so will just dig heels in. We need some spaces that allow people to articulate what they struggle with or are worried about with decolonisatio n - so that we can bring these to light and discuss. https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038054023 2022-02-09 14:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038054023 Short term and long term goals - and the differences between them https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038055792 2022-02-09 14:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038055792 Making connections to students who are not interested - for example, creating connections to colonisation (historic and present) in Asia. Looking at contemporary colonisation processes - for example, by China. WITHOUT suggesting that European colonialism should be ignored. https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038064039 2022-02-09 14:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2038064039 Assessment alfcoles https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2039885143 If we are serious about epistemological reparations and acknowledging non-canonical forms of scholarship, it feels like we need to look at the forms of assessment we require of students. Can we allow jointly written PhDs for example, or a Master's dissertation in the form of a dialogue? And if not, what conversations do we need to have as a School to open up these kinds of possibility?]]> 2022-02-10 09:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2039885143 Forthcoming Guest Edited SI of IJRME (journal I co-edit) on Racially Just Methodologies https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2039893545 Due to be Issue 3 this year. ]]> 2022-02-10 10:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2039893545 Shifting entrenched headspaces around "good" research methods https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2039896804 We have spent so long in academia with specific ideas of what "counts" as ways of knowing that undoing that is very difficult.]]> 2022-02-10 10:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/uob/qwp82vj2i9zvsvqp/wish/2039896804