Decolonizing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Educators’ Realities and Transformative Possibilities

• In Event: Teaching in/and Context

Abstract

Using critical consciousness and decolonizing approaches in instructional practices, pedagogy, curriculum, and learning activities, we upend the neoliberal western-centric canonical structures in college teaching and prioritize culturally affirming ways of knowing, being, and doing to acknowledge and value contributions of students from traditionally marginalized populations. Using participatory methodology, we discuss the findings in relation to impacts of colonialism on teaching and learning in the college class, knowledges and productive understandings, and empowering diverse worldviews.

Authors

• Karen Ramlackhan, University of South Florida

• David Bwire, The College of New Jersey