Creating and sustaining an anti-racist pedagogy and inclusive curriculum in higher education

Taking place on Thursday 22 June, as part of Talk About Teaching (to Transgress), this online panel event will explore ways of creating and sustaining an anti-racist pedagogy and inclusive curriculum in higher education.

Colleagues are welcome to join this session by itself, or as part of the Talk About Teaching event taking place at the York campus on 22 June. However, please note that this panel will be online-only so you will need access to a device with MS Teams in order to participate.

Panelists: Helen Julia Minors, Michael ODea, Manjinder Jagdev & Sue Mesa

Abstract: As members and co-chairs of the Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Decolonisation of the Curriculum Working Group (LTSE 1c), this panel session will first give an overview of the aims and significance of the work we are doing, in relation to university strategy. We will then each offer a 10-15 minute example of work we have done and are doing in this field, offering real-life examples of student partnerships, authentic assessments, decolonised curricula, inclusive anti-racist practice, etc.

We ask, across these case study papers: what might an anti-racist curriculum look like? How can we develop an inclusive curriculum that is sustainable and at the same time genuinely embedding employability skills? How might we begin to decolonise course content, programmes and the processes that structure student learning and assessment in HE? 

Helen will present her work on ‘Taking Race Live’, a four-year, funded, award-winning project, which removed the awarding gap in the project’s associated modules through working in staff-student partnership to modify the curriculum and pedagogic process. Notably, the assessment and collaborative work facilitated more student choice and was grounded in industry practices, based on an inclusive curriculum framework.  

Mike will present his intersectional work on ‘Why do girls not study computing?’, which investigates the persistent gender imbalance within Computing/IT subjects in the UK. He will consider some of the underlying issues of why women and girls don’t even consider Computer Science as a degree option. 

Sue will share work undertaken on the MSc Occupational Therapy programme to decolonise the curriculum and embed anti-racism into teaching. She will also share plans to develop student ‘equity champions’ within the programme area and the wider school to further progress decolonisation in a co-constructed way.  

Finally, Manjinder will share her work on anti-racist and decolonial practice with student teachers (primary undergraduate and secondary postgraduate). This includes session materials from day conferences with student teachers, the YSJ Teacher conference on inclusion and diversity in June 2021, and more recent work on critical mathematics education. The latter has themes of social justice in relation to racial and climate justice, with students’ ideas and lesson activities for their use with children in placement schools.  

Booking:

If you are not attending Talk About Teaching (to Transgress) but would like to book a place at this session, please complete a copy of our CPD booking form.

If you are planning on attending the full day on 22 June, please book your place via Eventbrite.