Decolonising Education: Voices from different fields

Dr Marlon Moncrieffe, University of Brighton. Dr. Mocrieffe is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Brighton. His areas of research and interest are: 20th Century Black-British histories to the present; National Identity, Decolonising Curriculum Knowledge; Anti-Racism. In addition, he is a world renowned expert on the history and lives of Black cycling champions. He will be talking about ‘decolonising the curricululm’, starting from the British curriculum and widening the angle to general considerations about decolonising the curriculum.

Dr Heloise Sathorar and Dr. Deidre Geduld, Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth. Dr. Sathorar is Head of Department for Secondary School Education at the School of Education, Nelson Mandela University. Her areas of research and interest include: Decolonising Education and Critical Pedagogy. Dr. Geduld is Senior Lecturer at the School for Initial Teacher Education, Nelson Mandela University. Her areas of research and interest include: Early Child Development, Inclusive Education, Critical Pedagogy, and Decolonising the Curriculum in the South African Context. Together, Dr. Sathorar and Dr. Geduld will be talking about ‘decolonising teacher education’, starting from a research they conducted in South Africa and widening the angle to more general considerations.

Dr. Laura Van Broekhoven, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. Dr. Van Broekhoven is Director at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Her current research interests include repatriation and redress, with a focus on the importance of collaboration, inclusivity and reflexive inquiry. Her regional academic research has focused on collaborative collection research with Amazonian (Surinam and Brazil) indigenous peoples, Yokot’an (Maya) oral history, Mixtec indigenous market systems, and Nicaraguan indigenous resistance in colonial times. She will be talking about decoloniality from the point of view of museums and museum curation.