Kindly note: Registrants will receive an email communicating the relevant information, as well as the Zoom link for attending the webinar. 

Why shouldn't I miss this!

You should not miss this opportunity if you are interested in conversations and debates on the need to Decolonize the Curriculum and if you have been thinking of ways how to change your teaching in order to facilitate and ensure such epistemological access to students.

Purpose of the APD opportunity:

This Webinar attempts to offer one explanation for most academics’ struggle, and in some cases failure, to realise Epistemological Access and Curriculum Decolonization goals in their programmes. By means of a case study, it shows how the notion of Epistemological Access has ensured Cognitive Injustice, and why the Curriculum Decolonization discourses as currently rendered have had a minimal impact within academic disciplines. The Webinar will attempt to address these issues within the context of Teaching and Learning.

In the Webinar, I argue that one of the reasons for such disappointing outcome with the implementation of teaching and Learning approaches that ensure Epistemological Access via a Decolonized Curriculum is the presentation of interrelated phenomena as apart: knowledge from learning, and as separate from language; the personal as separate from the social; and curriculum as separate from pedagogy or teaching and learning. The purpose for this approach is to engage academics in thinking about these aspects in ways that will attempt to bring all these phenomena into some form of relation, and the implications for Curricular Design and Teaching and Learning

Outcomes of the APD opportunity:

At the end of the Webinar, participants will be able to apply the following understanding in the context of Teaching and Learning:

• The relationship between Epistemological Access and Epistemecide:
• The relationship between Cognitive Justice and Curriculum Decolonization:
• The interrelatedness between knowledge and learning, the personal and the social; and curriculum and pedagogy.

Expectations:

Participants are expected to access the link for the APD opportunity sent to their NWU email address, and upon completion, provide feedback on the APD opportunity.

Requirements:

In preparation for the webinar, Prof Emmanuel Mgqwashu the presenter will send out a paper for the participants' perusal.

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