Education

Decolonising Education: Knowledge, Power and Sustainable Societies

Module code: X4400E
Level 5
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Seminar
Assessment modes: Portfolio

Decolonising education is critical for social justice in the Global North and South. This raises important questions about the relationships between knowledge, power and society in the past and present. This module addresses these issues. It engages with the politics and history of education in both UK and international contexts. It critiques how the curriculum has privileged particular knowledges and identities in ways that are racialised, gendered and classed. Throughout the module, we relate these issues to students’ own experiences of education and what decolonising education means for them.

Module learning outcomes

• Demonstrate critical awareness of how education can reproduce social inequalities related to race, gender, sexuality, class (etc) differences.
• Demonstrate communication skills relevant to a range of employment and civic and global engagement settings.
• Demonstrate theoretical and methodological understandings of the politics of knowledge and education and their implications for social inequalities around the globe.
• Draw on personal experiences of education to communicate critical analytical arguments in a creative way.