Event Highlights : Decolonising Education and Development: Curricula, Data and Purpose

On Thursday 14 September 2023, the hybrid panel discussion on “Decolonising education and development: curricula, data and purpose” took place. This was part of the 2023 UKFIET Conference Education for Social & Environmental Justice: Diversity , Sustainability , Responsibility. This panel brought together six papers with the aim of contributing to the current debate on Decolonising Education and Development.

Speakers & papers:

• Crain Soudien, University of Cape Town: Sustaining disruptive development possibilities in the university: a conceptual exploration
• Prachi Srivastava, University of Western Ontario: Engaging in epistemic humility to question assumptions, institutions, and knowledges
• Arathi Sriprakash, University of Bristol: Reparations in the ruins of development
• Kathryn Moeller, University of Cambridge: An intersectional, decolonial feminist framework for rethinking education and development
• Leon Tikly, University of Bristol: Discussant

• Organisers: Crain Soudien, University of Cape Town and Moira V. Faul, NORRAG
• Chair: Hugh Maclean, NORRAG