This session will explore decolonising the curriculum at secondary level by identifying, acknowledging and challenging the ways in which colonialism has impacted upon perceived knowledge and learning. It involves looking at representation and language across the whole curriculum and explores how a Global Citizenship approach supports building racial literacy and broadening what and how we teach. The session will include key methodologies and tools to support an anti-racist approach in the classroom, as well as planning tools and signposting of a breadth of resources to support teachers.
The session will explore:
Ø The impact of colonialism on the curriculum.
Ø How Global Citizenship supports decolonising the curriculum.
Ø Practical methodologies and activities to support teachers in decolonising the curriculum.
Ø Signposting of useful tools, resources and further professional learning.
Our courses are highly interactive, both to model the participatory global citizenship approach, and also so we can introduce activities and methodologies for use in the classroom. This course will make use of breakout rooms and simple digital participation tools (all necessary instructions will be given). It can be hard to participate fully on a phone or tablet, so we highly recommend you join the course on a desktop or laptop computer, with your microphone and video enabled.
If you have particular access needs, please contact us at helen@scotdec.org.uk so we can work together to create as positive an experience for you as we can.
We have designed this course to be engaging, relevant and thought-provoking. Please join the course in a reasonably quiet place if possible, and do what you can to bring your full participation and focus to the session.
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