Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education
Asked to reflect on issues around decolonising the curriculum, PGCert student and lecturer Nicola Truman began to explore her ideas through the creation of a textile piece that recognised the multicultural influences on western textile development and, more immediately, recognised the different cultures in her classroom – unifying them. She is at once reflecting on …
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The global spread of English and English language teaching (ELT) is rooted in colonialism. English is often promoted as a de-territorialized language and a decolonizing tool. However, literature shows that ELT still maintains traces of colonialism, despite writers addressing this over several decades. Recent literature demonstrates that English is still negatively associated with colonial history …
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In my experience as a sessional lecturer at a number of London art colleges – and a student, having written a BA, MA and currently undertaking a practice-based PhD – I feel that the essay still tends to be the dominant assessment form. In fact, it is the form that in many cases may be …
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“Until the lion learns to write – the story will always glorify the hunter.” J. Nozipo Maraire The aim of this paper is to offer a location within educational historiography for decolonisation. This paper attempts to historically situate my role as a teacher within a wider historical and political context – and to synthesise research …
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The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) conducted a report researching into the black and minority ethnic (BME) student experience in 2018. This research found that UCA enables a positive learning experience for such students but it is not immune from contributing factors that can influence a student’s experience learning in a negative way (Dixon-Smith, …
Decolonisation of assessment has many different meanings for learners and educators in higher education. For me, the term ‘decolonisation of assessment’ comes across as trou- blesome knowledge because I’ve so far had no experience of doing summative assess- ment, and only briefly participated formative assessment in my role. From researching the topic, reflecting on my …
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Before we can begin to decolonise assessment, we first need to orientate ourselves towards the them of decolonisation itself. This toolkit begins with an artwork created by Laura Blight specifically to visualise the complex dynamics at play within decolonisation. The authors then explain the relationship between decolonisation and assessment, and provide a helpful flow diagram …
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Team Mars provide some quick tips and suggestions for decolonising assessment in creative disciplines. Suggested citation: Turner, L., Laketu, T., Brook, D., Thomas, A., Bronte, J. and Nowson, K. (2021) Decolonising Assessment toolkit. Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education. Published on 25th October 2021 | Photo by Andrew Stutesman on Unsplash
This toolkit presents three approaches to decolonising assessment. In 'opening the space to talk', the authors use bell hooks' belief that 'the professor must genuinely value everyone's presence' before planning assessment. In 'framing and context', the authors highlight how we need to pay attention to how we give formative assessment and feedback. In 'access and …
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The toolkit focuses on applying a perspective of decolonisation to aspects of academic writing in creative disciplines. The authors focus on six key areas: intellectual engagement, supporting materials, reflective writing, literature, English as a second language and support services. Each section summarises and condenses useful literature into a series of practical guidelines in order to …
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