>> My name is Elina Marmer from Hamburg and I am doing research on racism
>> in German textbooks focusing on the representation of Africa and people
>> of African descent and the construction of “Blackness” and “Whiteness”
>> from the perspective of Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness and
>> Postcolonial Theory. I have been looking at the content of textbooks and
>> curricula and the impact of such representations on racism in classroom.
>>
>> I have carried out a EU funded IMAFREDU project (Image of Africa in
>> Education) which resulted in some publications while others are in pipe
>> line.
>>
>> I am also involved in teachers training as well as in educational and
>> activist work to raise the general awareness and to facilitate change in
>> regard to the racist educational content in Germany (elina-marmer.com)
>>
>> Together with my colleagues Aram Ziai, Kwesi Aikins and Daniel Bendix
>> from the University of Kassel, I am currently planing to apply for a
>> HERA project funding “Uses of the past”
>> (http://heranet.info/system/files/HERAJRPdocuments/HERACALLDOCUMENTFINAL2015/HERACALL2015/hera_jrp_up_call_final_version10feb.pdf)
>>
>> to have a closer look at the treatment of colonialism and “development”
>> in the European textbooks. Decolonizing European curricula and textbooks
>> would be the main aim of the project. We would like to apply
>> participatory methods involving students and future teachers in analysis
>> and development of decolonial methods and content. In this context it
>> would be interesting to work with the traces of colonialism in the
>> public spaces such as street names etc. If possible, we would also like
>> to collaborate with African researchers (e.g. from Ghana) for similar
>> work on their curricula and textbooks.
>>
>> As required from the HERA call, we are urgently looking for partners
>> (PIs) from three European countries in order to submit an outline
>> proposal by April 9th.
>>
>> Would you be interested to cooperate or could you please recommend
>> somebody working in this field?
>>
>> As the time is very short, I would greatly appreciate to hear back from
>> you soon.
>>
>> Thank you and kind regards
>> Elina Marmer

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