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A collective of geography educators exploring what it means to decolonise the curriculum. Teacher or teacher educator? PM to join us!

Joined February 2021
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Call out 🗣 I'm looking for KS3-5 teachers who would like to join our (Mapping Black London) online focus group next week, sharing thoughts & experiences of teaching Black history in their classroom & the challenges they've faced. Please share & DM asap if interested 📩
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Help history teacher Hosseini Tahirou Amadou and others from Niger seek justice for France’s 1899 colonial atrocities. Support their fight for truth, recognition, & reparations in an upcoming UN hearing. Please donate here: gofund.me/720a2416
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Great job opportunity for someone here in Oxford ⬇️
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We're happy to announce that there are two positions available to serve on the Board of the Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anticolonial Studies in Education SIG. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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ROAPE defends Hakim Adi, historian & activist, who has now been made redundant by the University of Chichester. His students - African & of African descent - are now left without supervision & his pathbreaking course on African history has been closed. bit.ly/45QCM4R
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Re-reading 'Why No Borders' by Bridget Anderson, Nandita Sharma (@nsharma101), and Cynthia Wright from 2008, I am struck by its depth and clarity. I wonder how the authors look back on it and what they would write now 💚🖤🔥 nanditasharma.net/wp-content…
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"Racism is a safeguarding issue and we cannot with all integrity protect our children against discrimination if we don’t have the most basic understanding of how it presents in our schools." ✍️ Everyday Racism co-founder Naomi Evans 👇 thelead.uk/racial-literacy-t…
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Delighted to announce that I have been awarded a @BritishAcademy_ Postdoc Fellowship for my project "Belonging To The Difficult Past: The potential of history education to foster positive belonging among racially minoritized youth" at @OxfordDeptofEd thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fund…
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Re-reading Decolonising the Mind since my class will discuss it next week. “Imperialism is total: it has economic, political, military, cultural and psychological consequences for the people of the world today.”
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What a stunning essay on the constantly shifting course of the river Indus, colonial attempts at containing it within fixed map lines, the relationship of fisherfolk communities with the now disappeared Indus dariya and it’s scared geography. alserkal.online/words/drawin…
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Tomorrow! On site in Delhi, and online, pl see here for details including registration: csh-delhi.com/events/event/c…
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"Where do we go now? 25 years ago I lost my home and came to this city for livelihood. I came to this city empty-handed and started a new life. This city has sustained us for a long time... But now the city is kicking us out!" by me in @Outlookindia outlookindia.com/culture-soc…
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Happy birthday Samir Amin, born #OnThisDay in 1931, who analysed 'Eurocentrism as a global project that reinforced imperialism & systemic inequalities by legitimising a global system that expropriated resources & exploited people in the Global South' aeon.co/essays/if-you-want-d…
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With our partners in #Colombia, #Ethiopia, #India, #Malaysia, @UniofOxford & @wateratleeds, we are doing hard work @GCRFWaterHub to highlight the voice of the Global South. Here is one new publication to introduce “#decolonising #water_diplomacy” & challenge conventional wisdom.
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Presented this paper at #RGSIBG23 and it was lovely! Thanks to the other panelists and the audience for making space for me. It was a great conversation on moving, belonging, being, and becoming in a climate crisis future. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/…
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