Decolonisation and anti-racism: Challenges and opportunities for (teacher) education
Date
2022-11-03
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Abstract
In the past two decades, we have seen a renewed
interest in decolonisation. A proliferation of literature
produced on the topic, the establishment of journals
on decolonisation, student protests such as the
#RhodesMustFall campaign at universities in South
Africa and Oxford University in Britain, French President
Emmanuel Macron's call for the repatriation
of African heritage from European museums, the
appointment of a Deputy Minister of Decolonisation
in Bolivia, bear testimony to a heightened consciousness
on the topic. Moreover, we are witnessing the
internationalisation of Indigenous knowledge as colonised
peoples across the globe use the spaces that
globalisation affords to build solidarities in order to
resist the homogenising and normalising effects of
globalisation and to decentre western epistemologies.
In this article, which contributes to the Special
Issue on Decolonial and Anti-racist Perceptions in
Teacher Training and Education Curricula, I do three
things: discuss the concept of decolonisation including
its meanings produced in different geographies,
discuss the connection between decolonisation and
anti-racism, present challenges and opportunities
for decolonising (teacher) education programmes
through the concepts of currere, complicated conversation
and land education. I conclude that decolonisation
is not an easy task in the neoliberal university
and other institutions offering initial teacher training/
education. However, there always exists opportunities
for invigorating decolonial desires in such
teaching/learning spaces.
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CITATION: Le Grange, L., 2022., Decolonisation and anti-racism: Challenges and opportunities for (teacher) education. The Curriculum Journal 2022(00):14 Pages. doi:10.1002/curj.193
CITATION: Le Grange, L., 2022., Decolonisation and anti-racism: Challenges and opportunities for (teacher) education. The Curriculum Journal 2022(00):14 Pages. doi:10.1002/curj.193
Keywords
Anti-racism, Complicated conversation, Currere, Decolonisation, L/ land education, Teacher education