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Supporting course and programme design

Supporting course and programme design

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  2. DAR: Additional resources

DAR: Additional resources

Signposting

The best place to get started is to visit the University's Decolonising the Curriculum Hub. 

Race Studies - Race and Decolonial Studies: Information Services have put together a useful guide on library resources and other services related to decolonisation and race.

Introduction - A Quick Guide for New Course Proposers: A very useful resource from W. Victoria Lee provides a step-by-step guide to incorporating decolonisation and inclusion into course design at Board of Studies level.

Networks

The RACE.ED network is a cross-university and multi-disciplinary network concerned with race, racialization and decolonial studies. Of particular interest might be the work they have compiled to showcase pre-existing and new University of Edinburgh courses related to questions of race, colonialism/coloniality and decolonial studies which you can find here: Teaching - RACE.ED.

Race Equality and Anti-Racist Subcommittee (REAR): This is a thematic committee of the University Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee (EDIC).

As part of the Decolonising the Curriculum Hub SharePoint site, Rayya Ghul has compiled a comprehensive list of external resources: External Resources (sharepoint.com). Below we have pulled out a couple of examples that we recommend reading:

  • Decolonising the Curriculum toolkit: Manchester Metropolitan University's toolkit, which includes reflections from eight academic colleagues from across the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Journals and journal articles

Menon, B. R. K., 2021. The missing colours of chemistry, Nature Chemistry, Vol 13.

Mignolo, D., W. 2017. Coloniality Is Far from Over, and So Must Be Decoloniality, Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry: Vol 43.

Gopal, P. 2021. On decolonisation and the university, Textual Practice, Vol 35 (6).

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South: This online and open-access journal fosters dialogue and research on teaching and learning in higher education in the global South, or about the global South.

Books and book chapters

Anderson, B. 1983. Imagined communities: reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism. This work explores the origins for the concept of the nation-state and its impact on people's psyches.

Eddo-Lodge, R. 2017. Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race. A critical analysis of what it means to be Black in 21st century Britain.

Ghosh, A. 2021. The nutmeg's curse: parables for a planet in crisis. This book demonstrated the interconnections between the exploitation of people and the natural world. In their Sixth Assessment of the impacts of climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have for the first time acknowledged the impact that "ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism” have on people's vulnerability to climate change (IPCC, 2022).

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