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Decolonised IL in teaching - Coggle Diagram
Decolonised IL in teaching
Students agency and engagement
Student identity
Student activism
Encourage through curricula critique
Requires 'basic skills' first
Moreover, requires time (difficult in a neoliberal university environment)
Understanding the colonial or decolonial context of information production
Significance of archival sources on research outputs
Taking what you need and leaving the rest
Understanding that what counts as 'valuable' information and what counts as knowledge is situated
Appreciating critical engagement with non-traditional information sources
Student success
Graduate attributes
Disingenuous
Challenging the mainstream is rewarded
Students can opt out of decolonising stuff entirely and still be successful
Students have holistic view of their course and their grades
Teaching for exams and future courses
Aim is to embed decoloniality into students' wider education and their lives beyond university
Encountering information which destabilises normative categories
Encountering information which centres marginalised voices
Finding gaps in the information presented
Encountering non-textual information sources
Horizontal relationships in the classroom
Workshop experiences pivotal
Reassessing what we consider research information - conversations
Reflecting on libraries as a non-neutral interface for accessing information
Information finding/ retrieval systems biased
Students using their own experience to create and communicate information
Or speaking to that by using relatable examples and contexts in class
Academics engagement
Developed from broader critical theories eg postcolonial feminism
Self-education, learning, regrowth
Positionality, background, identity
Writing and narratological strategies
READING LISTS
Anxiety about the 'easy options'
Journal editing and publishing
Links between colonialism and capitalism
Meaningful decolonisation limited by time, labour, neoliberal assessment and promotion systems
LANGUAGE
Purposeful engagement with sources that are not academic