Decolonising Knowledge in Academic Practice Lecture Series
Proposed Date: May 2023 – several sessions will be held throughout the month.
Deadline for submissions: Friday 10th February 2023, 11:59 GMT
Decisions will be communicated by Friday 24th February 2023
Format: This series will be entirely online
Summary
The Education Development Service at Birmingham City University invites you to its second annual Lecture Series on Decolonising Academic Practice. Our first event last year produced a report and some key themes that require further exploration. This year, we focus on the decolonising of knowledge - this is the foundation for change in our research, curriculum, teaching, and structures in Higher Education. While the sector has engaged with decolonising as a principle necessary for excellence in teaching, we believe there needs to be continued investigation into authentic principles and actions for decolonising. This goes beyond current trends, inclusivity, and diversity and looks at the root of what “acceptable knowledge” is, who decides on this, and what has been excluded from “official” knowledge to the detriment of accuracy in our pedagogy.
We are hosting this lecture series to focus on specific examples of how decolonising knowledge provides challenges but also opportunities in Higher Education teaching and research. We hope to gain and share insight into how decolonising principles have been implemented, and how different subjects or types of academic practice can work toward decolonised knowledge. We hope to provide an instructional approach for those who attend the lectures.
The lecture series will consist of a combination of up to 90-minute lectures, and up to 45-minute provocations including time for Q&A.
We encourage lectures and provocations to be submitted in the following areas:
1. How principals of decolonisation have been applied to challenge “official” knowledge
2. How curriculum has been redesigned based on decolonised knowledge and research
3. How we decolonise knowledge
4. Barriers and opportunities to decolonising knowledge and research
5. Who gets to decolonise knowledge and research?
6. Critical reflections of sector processes that encourage or limit decolonising knowledge and research i.e. REF, KEF?
7. Critical reflections of institutional processes that encourage or limit decolonising knowledge and research i.e. academic promotions, REF
8. Implications of decolonising knowledge for pedagogy
9. Comparative studies on global knowledge exchange and the UK
We particularly encourage submissions from those with an international perspective that can speak on their experiences and expertise having centred their own culture and learning environments. We particularly encourage discussions on pedagogical techniques used in South Asia, the Caribbean, and in Africa as this reflects the heritage of most of our student body, as well as postcolonial experiences.
Date: The series will be held over the course of the month of May. Dates and times will be confirmed with facilitators based on their availability once the submission is selected to be a part of the series.
Submissions should be made via link:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VeArfoqCI0W15bd62ZOXhW_m7YbMquREnWUWDcW8b9VUN0cyS0lPRFNRV0pSMUI1Q1FVTjVNNktHUC4u
If you have further queries, please contact Dr. Melanie-Marie Haywood, Director for Education Development via email at [log in to unmask]
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