Slides from the Alternative Education module (BA Education) at Blackburn College 2018

1. alternative
education
SESSION 4 – WHY IS
MY CURRICULUM
WHITE?

2. opening round
What have you read, seen
or heard and what question
has it raised for you this
week?

3. agenda
 opening round: what have you read, seen or heard
and what question has it raised for you?
 focus: We Are Poets: “I Come From”
 concepts: othering, whiteness, intersectionality
 lecture: decolonising the curriculum
 community philosophy inquiry: Why is my
curriculum white?
 next week: Bourdieu capital, habitus, field
 closing round: what is live in you?

4. I come from…
We Are Poets

5. concepts BRAIDOTTI, BHOPAL,
MCINTOSH,
CRENSHAW

6. othering
 “…we have mental,
discursive and spiritual
values instilled in us,
which reflect a certain
concept of human.”
 Rosi Braidotti

7. whiteness
“Universities are white
spaces, in which
whiteness – and white
privilege – dominates.”
Kalwant Bhopal

8. privilege
“I have come to see white privilege
as an invisible package of unearned
assets that I can count on cashing in
each day, but about which I was
“meant” to remain oblivious. White
privilege is like an invisible weightless
knapsack of special provisions, maps,
passports, codebooks, visas, clothes,
tools and blank checks.”
Peggy McIntyre

9. intersectionality
The Urgency of Intersectionality
Kimberlé Crenshaw

10. what does all
this mean for
education?
ALLMAN, OLUFEMEMI
AND ‘RHODES MUST
FALL’

11. decolonising education
reading lists: hear all the
histories
images: rethink the built
environment
voices: amplify present and
absent identities
influence: don’t stereotype or
represent
diversity: provide spaces for
new thinking

12. community philosophy inquiry
“If you want to make a
human being into a
monster, deny them, at
the cultural level, any
reflection of
themselves.”
Junot Diaz

13. thinkers
 We Are Poets
 Rosi Braidotti
 Kalwant Bhopal
 Peggy McIntosh
 Kimberlé Crenshaw
 Junot Diaz
 Esme Allman
 Lola Olufemi
 Audre Lorde

14. next week…
Pierre Bourdieu
Capital
Habitus
Field

15. creative
autobiography
MANY THANKS TO
THOSE WHO ARE
CONTRIBUTING – IT
WILL SHOW IN YOUR
GRADE!
DRAFT DEADLINE
FRIDAY 13TH APRIL
2018

16. closing round
What’s live in you?