Decolonizing Postsecondary Learning Syllabus (original) (raw)

This course will engage with critical literature on the settler colonial and racist legacies of postsecondary institutions and education more broadly while encouraging students to imagine a just university. What does it mean to study, teach, and partake in universities in the U.S. that have historically enhanced and continue to enhance the lives of the mostly wealthy and are founded on enslavement, land theft, and exclusion? How can we work toward imagining and materializing more just universities and modes of education? Students will be asked to build a vision for what education can be by examining a variety of grassroots approaches to educational models such as Freedom Schools, Survival Schools, and the “Flying University.” At the same time, students will be asked to think about their own teaching praxis and to develop a teaching philosophy and syllabus they can use toward job applications. The class will be collaborative and praxis-based.

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