Decolonization Education as One Future Trend in School: Recognizing the Absence and Disengagement

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.415How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Decolonization; Education; Case Study; Education Justice

Abstract

Since the West civilization has constructed “elites” as the powerful through the social and political sciences within a social structure based on world-system theory, several social justice movements, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and the protest vandalizing Sir Winston Churchill’s statue, have delivered public messages debunking white privilege in higher education. This paper is aimed to inspire students of color, indigenous students who are seeking self-identity, and educators who are interested in education and race to recognize the challenges and meaningful pedagogies to eventually build a culturally harmonious environment in class. The analytical method would focus on illustrating the importance of decolonization in the school system by reflecting on case studies of how educators decolonize the way the subjects are presented within the classroom in Hawaii and Canada. From the education analysis under a critical theory framework, the decolonizing pedagogy in a Hawaii education institution has focused on understanding metaphors through oral storytelling to deliver the ancestry wisdom in a rich-native language immersed environment. The instructor in the Canadian music class applied pedagogy that listed both native and Western music analysis theory to expose binary elements in the current curriculum to help students recognize and embrace the diversity of analytical approaches. These decolonizing pedagogies would be helpful in the education field for supporting educational justice and equity reform in the curriculum.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenxi Wu
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DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Decolonization Education as One Future Trend in School: Recognizing the Absence and Disengagement
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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