"What if pedagogy was an act of love in the process of the practice of freedom?"
(Love as the Practice of Freedom in bell hooks' Outlaw Culture : Resisting Representations, 2006).
Education, Training & Workshops
SJ Empowerment deliver talks, training and workshops to higher education organisations including university law schools, social science research institutes, local authorities, government departments as well as other organisations.
Topics include:
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Antiracist pedagogy
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Building an inclusive classroom
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Decolonising research methodologies
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Courses will be available through an online learning platform.
Our sessions and workshops draw on scholarly knowledge providing attendees with an an in-depth theoretical understanding of decolonial thought and applied methods drawn from critical race studies.
The training team consists of leading scholars in Black feminist and Critical Race Theory (CRT) as well as decolonial studies approaches to education and research.
Please get in contact for more details of existing and/or bespoke training/workshops that can be delivered online and in person.
Past workshops
Decolonising Research Methodologies: Theory and Praxis
SeNSS - Advanced Scholars Research Training Programme
Aim: Decolonising theory and methodology represents a global postcolonial ‘thought revolution’ that aims to unsettle and reconstitute taken for granted systems of Eurocentric knowledge production in the Western academy. Black, indigenous and scholars of colour from the Global South are calling for honest, open 'decolonial dialogues' that offer the possibility of a new inclusive geopolitics of knowledge that challenges the dominance of cultural and scientific narratives of European modernity, which lie at the heart of the academy’s ‘hidden curriculum’. This programme examines what it means to talk about decolonising theory across different disciplines and critically evaluate the co-optation of decolonising agenda within the academy. In particular we take an applied approach and engage the students in questions of decolonial theory and praxis in their research.
Learning outcomes: This applied programme of study will enable participants to understand and evaluate the efficacy of decolonial theory and praxis in the context of their different disciplines and enable them to critically apply decolonial thought and methodologies to their research.
Tutors:
Professor Heidi Safia Mirza (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Dr Suhraiya Jivraj (University Kent)
Professor DivyaTolia-Kelly (Sussex University)