Decolonizing Education
EDST 221Z
Winter 2022
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01
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Please note: Students should expect some readings and assignments to be due during winter break, prior to beginning Winter Session. Please visit the Winter Session website for the full syllabus -- http://www.wesleyan.edu/wintersession.
Who determines what is true and worth knowing? How has the construction of knowledge and academic traditions from across the globe been impacted by such phenomena as (post)modernity, (neo)colonialism, and (neo)liberalism? Why do any of the questions above matter to your own personal history, beliefs, and identity? This course will provide a space for students to critically examine the history and development of the discourses that have shaped their educational experiences and their understanding of the purpose of education. The first half of the course will focus on texts and assignments that interrogate how some of our modern epistemological discourses were formed and maintained through the lens of postcolonial studies and critical educational studies.
The second half of the course will center on ways people have worked within these dominant modes of thought to resist hegemonic modern discourses that privileges logical positivism, quantification, objectivism, and Western European histories and ideologies above all else. This coursework will involve reflection essays on class lectures and readings due before the class starts on Jan. 4th. The synchronous coursework will include intergroup dialogue and group activities that will encourage students to examine their own connection to the theoretical concepts presented in the lectures and homework assignments. The culminating project/final will be a scholarly personal narrative wherein students will synthesize both what they learned about themselves and the content that was presented during the course. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS EDST |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (CIVI-MN)(EDST-MN)(EDST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Laura Rendon- Sentipensante: Sensing/Thinking Pedagogy
Gloria Anzaldúa- Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, and Reality
Gurminder Bhambra- Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
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Examinations and Assignments:
Class 1, 2, and 3 reflection response due Jan. 4th at 12noon
Class 4 and 5 reflection response due Jan. 4th at 12noon
Old assignment reflection essay due Jan. 4th at 12noon
Class 6, 7, and 8 reflection response due Jan. 8th at 12noon
Dialogue partner reflection essay due Jan. 11th at 12noon
Class 9, 10, 11 reflection response due Jan. 15th at 12noon
Self grading reflection essay due Jan. 18th at 12noon |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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| Instructor(s): Colvin,Demetrius James Times: .MTWRF. 05:10PM-09:20PM; Location: ONLINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 20 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 15 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: 3 |
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