Decolonisation in higher education

Advice on decolonising the curriculum across different disciplines and unpicking the impact of colonial and Western power structures on higher education and models of teaching and learning. These resources aim to help academics enrich education and scholarship through decolonisation, bringing in previously overlooked knowledge and voices and challenging long accepted norms within higher education.

By Eliza.Compton, 23 December, 2022
Decolonisation has the potential to rattle higher education’s sandstones and ivory towers, yet many struggle to know where to start. Karen Lambert and lisahunter use the context of initial teacher education in Australia to explain that it starts with you
By Eliza.Compton, 1 December, 2022
Mathematicians have always looked at old problems in new ways. A database of original sources will give university-level mathematics students a global, historical view of their subject
Reading time
4minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 22 November, 2022
Academics and students from five countries worked together to decolonise a reading list for a public health module, through a global lens. Here, they describe how they did it
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 11 August, 2022
Untangling business studies from the discipline’s imperial origins might seem an insurmountable task, but it’s up to university leaders to take the lead on this complex challenge, reflects Bobby Banerjee
By Eliza.Compton, 20 July, 2022
A panel of academics from Campus+ institutions in the UK and Australia discuss the what, why and how of decolonising the curriculum
Reading time
60minutes