Excellence in Teaching and Learning Workshop - Decolonising Pedagogies

Student Success Project - Kent Law School

Professor Heidi Safia Mirza UCL Institute of Education, University of London & Goldsmith College

This is an online event presented via Zoom. Attendees will be sent details in advance of the meeting.Decolonising Pedagogies: Gender, Race Faith in Higher EducationIn the workshop Professor Mirza will explore how professional educators in the academy can engage in ‘embodied’ intersectional work that enables them to begin the process of ‘decolonising’ their places of teaching and learning. In the context of the significant numbers of Muslim, Black and Asian students who are in the British education system, this session will unpack the ways in which their ‘just being there’ creates unsettling spaces of contestation and tension in our still overwhelmingly white institutions. Drawing on her research on the pedagogic practices of teacher educators and their dilemmas of teaching students from different race, faiths and cultures, Professor Mirza will explore the difficult concept of ‘spaces of safety’ which offers us the radical possibility of transcending the ‘stuck’ institutional discourses of ‘diversity’ and racial equality which dominates our educational landscapes in so called ‘post-race times’.Heidi Safia MirzaHeidi Safia Mirza is Emeritus Professor of Equality Studies in Education at UCL Institute of Education and Visiting Professor of Race, Faith and Culture at Goldsmith’s College, University of London. She is known for her pioneering research on race, gender and identity in education and has an international reputation for championing equality and human rights for Black, Muslim, Asian women and young people through educational reform. A daughter of the Windrush generation from Trinidad and schooled in Brixton,Heidi is one of the first and few female professors of colour in UK. She is author of several best-selling books including Young Female and Black, which was voted in the BERA top 40 most influential educational studies in Britain. Professor Mirza is a leading voice in the global debate on decolonisation and recently co-edited the flagship book, ‘Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, whiteness and decolonising the academy’. She is currently co-authoring ‘Race and Ethnicity’ for the IFS Deaton Inequality Review which includes the impact of COVID-19 on Black and minority ethnic communities.

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