Chartered College of Teaching. ECFest: Non-Eurocentric Curriculum

Narrative and Biographical Methodologies in Education Research and Enterprise Group

Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

In our fourth and final Early Career Fest session, Marlon Moncrieffe (Senior Lecturer, School of Education, University of Brighton) will join Alison Peacock (Chief Executive, Chartered College of Teaching) in delivering a presentation on decolonising the curriculum. In this webinar we will explore: Marlon’s new book: Decolonising the History Curriculum What do we mean by ‘decolonising the curriculum’? Why it is important and the benefits a more diverse curriculum can bring Practical examples to diversifying the curriculum Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions in a Q&A towards the end of the webinar.

Period	1 Oct 2020
Degree of Recognition	National

Keywords

Decolonising the Curriculum
history
Education
Teaching and Learning

Documents & Links

This book calls for a reconceptualisation and decolonisation of the Key Stage 2 national history curriculum. The author applies a range of theories in his research with White-British primary school teachers to show how decolonising the history curriculum can generate new knowledge for all, in the face of imposed Eurocentric starting points for teaching and learning in history, and dominant white-cultural attitudes in primary school education. Through both narrative and biographical methodologies, the author presents how teaching and learning Black-British history in schools can be achieved, and centres his Black-British identity and minority-ethnic group experience alongside the immigrant Black-Jamaican perspective of his mother to support a framework of critical thinking of curriculum decolonisation. This book illustrates the potential of transformative thinking and action that can be employed as social justice for minority-ethnic group children who are marginalized in their educational development and learning by the dominant discourses of British history, national building and national identity.