This is a resource that was collated by some members ( Lorraine Agu, Glen Jankowski, Lisa Long and Erika Laredo) that looks at decolonizing Higher Education. To access the links simply copy,cut and paste.
Anti-Racism in Universities Resources
- NUS Racism in HE report (2012): nus.org.uk/PageFiles/12238/NUS_Race_for_Equality_web.pdf
- NUS and Universities UK (2019). Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic student attainment at UK universities: #closingthegap. Retrieved on 18th July 2019 from: https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/policy-and-analysis/reports/Pages/bame-student-attainment-uk-universities-closing-the-gap.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1SyhMVElMJURVupBDArtLblh4kyWLCzi8X-p7HBIthFD722obG93bQKds
- Why is my Curriculum White:
(Search in Facebook/Youtube)
- Torino’s (2015) useful paper examining different learning exercises for promoting anti-racism including experiential learning, group based learning and didactic methods. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02703149.2015.1059213
- Johnson (2002) argues that job criteria in HE needs to be amended to hire the right lecturers . https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022487102053002007
- The Jigsaw Classroom teaching method: https://www.jigsaw.org/
- Anti-Racism in HE toolkits:
www.cers.leeds.ac.uk/the-anti-racism-toolkit
- Long, L. (working paper). ‘Decolonizing’ police education? Exploring anti-racist approaches to police education and professional development. [Extract: “This paper explores the potential for the anti-racist, decolonizing education agenda to extend to other White institutions, specifically the police”. Please email Lisa.Long@leedsbeckett.ac.uk for a copy].
- Fazackerley, A (2019) Look at how white the academy is’: why BAME students aren’t doing PhDs (Guardian, 12th September) https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/sep/12/look-at-how-white-the-academy-is-why-bame-students-arent-doing-phds
- National Union of Students, “Why is my curriculum white?,” [film funded by University College London] accessed May 29, 2019, http://www.dtmh.ucl.ac.uk/videos/curriculum-white/
- Open University, “The Innovating Pedagogy 2019 Exploring new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers,”report, January 2019, https://iet.open.ac.uk/file/innovating-pedagogy-2019.pdf
- Shilliam, R (2014, July 28th) Black Academia in Britain [blogpost] https://thedisorderofthings.com/2014/07/28/black-academia-in-britain/
- SOAS (2018) Decolonising teaching and learning Toolkit https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/decolonisingsoas/files/2018/10/Decolonising-SOAS-Learning-and-Teaching-Toolkit-AB.pdf
- Tate, S (2019) Tackling the ‘BPOC’ Attainment Gap in UK Universities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPMuuJrfawQ
- ERHC (2019). Tackling racial harassment: universities challenged. https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/tackling-racial-harassment-universities-challenged
- Race Equity Through Pedagogy Conference – http://www.srhe.ac.uk/news/details.asp?id=%86%98%C0%AE%9B%96%80eb%5EgunyUwll%80c%89xa%80%82%7Ff%84u%C3%B7%B1%CD%AF%BD%BD%AA%89pIu%A3%8Fh%5F%84rV%B1%AB%8D%BB%B8%D3%C8%97%5Eaz%5E%84%84%7CW%86wJ%85meWn%8Cdu- Annual conference bringing together HE staff working on anti-racism. Organized by members of Sheffield Hallam University. Next one to take place in Spring 2020 & in Sheffield, this year to support the Sheffield conference, there is a local working committee at LBU email jankowski@leedsbeckett.ac.uk to be a part.
- Alterline Project (2018) Black Student Attainment Gap: A review of the Literature
- Bunce L. Naomi King, Sinitta Saran & Nabeela Talib (2019): Experiences of black and minority ethnic (BME) students in higher education: applying self-determination theory to understand the BME attainment gap, Studies in Higher Education
Leeds Beckett Resources
- Library: Beckett Books
- Student Union Policy on Curriculum Diversification: bit.ly/2sTHHQI
- Staff Race Equality forum:
To join email equalities@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
- Centre for learning and teaching: For more information contact priestley@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
- Centre for Race, Education & Decoloniality (CRED) https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/carnegie-school-of-education/research/race-and-education/. Academic Lead: Dr Shona Hunter – d.hunter@leedsbeckett.ac.uk // CRED@leedsbeckett.ac.uk