INSIGHTS Talk: Decolonising the curriculum in neoliberal economies: Exploring issues with power relations and hierarchies in education

We are delighted to welcome back Dr Eric Ekembe for a workshop that puts the ideas he presented on 20 February into practice. Please join us for this workshop & collective discussion!

Given common understanding of the relative value of decolinising the curriculum, I hope to create opportunities for attendees to reflect collaboratively on ways through which they can develop different teaching agenda in neoliberal times, deriving from underrepresented or erased epistemes, the remote beneficiaries being their students. The approach foregrounds socialisation models through participants’ agency and supports this with extant arguments for decoloniality praxis. Part one of the workshop will develop ways through which decolonising the curriculum can be realistic in neoliberal economies, focusing on higher education; part two will provide space for participants to attempt decolonising their knowledge base and power structures drawing from Southern epistemes. The last part will provide room for further reflection on the relevance of such endeavours.

Bio

Eric Ekembe holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon and is senior lecturer at the Higher Teacher Training College, Yaounde. He runs CAMELTA Research Group and is the Outreach Coordinator of the IATEFL Research Special Interest Group (ReSIG). He is English language and teacher education consultant and has presented at many international conferences and delivered webinars for the British Council Professional Development Webinar series. His research interest includes, amongst others, postcolonial discourse in English language education and decoloniality in Applied Linguistics. He has published research articles in international journals and is co-editor of Interdisciplinarity in the 21st Century Global Dispensation: Research in Language, Literature, & Education in Africa (Nova Pub, USA) and lead editor of Interface between English Language Education Policies and Practice: Examples from Various Contexts (Palgrave Mcmillan UK).