Intercultural universities and modes of learning

The decolonial pedagogies of colonial violence: Curricular decolonisation in the (geo)sciences

“…It argues that such an approach is potentially central to tackling the current enrolment crisis in the geosciences and it might help to lessen the pain of neoliberal mergers. Furthermore, evidence from intercultural universities in Latin America as well as from the Black Studies degree introduced at Birmingham City University shows how Black and Indigenous students are overwhelmingly drawn to degrees in which their worldviews and experiences are represented (see Andrews, 2016; Cupples & Glynn, 2014; Mato, 2019) and students racialised as white need to understand their own racial privilege and the ways in which they have been complicit in the colonial project.…”