1.1 Reflecting on Decolonization

Situating Ourselves and Reflecting on DecolonizationReflect on Identity

Take a moment to self reflect and think deeply about your learnings on this topic. To help you consider your own positionality, try to situate yourself on the following continuum:

Pedagogical continuum: 1. I have not begun 2. I am starting 3. I am implementing 4. I am implementing continually

 

We appreciate you taking the time to think deeply about your own positionality on the continuum. Awareness is critical in questioning what types of knowledges are privileged in your discipline and within the classroom.

Regardless of where you situate yourself, awareness itself "lacks political substance and is sociologically naïve" (Dominelli, 1998, p.13). Awareness without legitimate action contributes to silence and inactivity about tangible impacts of racism and oppression.