4. Decolonisation

Concept:

• Decolonisation of the language class

Guiding questions for the discussion:

• What is meant by the term “decolonisation”? Why would a language teaching practitioner want to decolonise their class, and how should they go about doing this? What impacts might this type of action have?

Participants (alphabetical order):

• Alan Duncan, University of St Andrews
• Dr Eoin Jordan (host), University of St Andrews
• Dr Ahmar Mahboob / Sunny Boy, University of Sydney – also a Global Fellow at University of St Andrews at the time of the recording 
• Dr Amritesh Singh, University of St Andrews

Sources referred to in the discussion:

• https://www.academia.edu/84741217/Subaltern_Practice_A_practical_guide
• https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/pub_learning-elt-future.pdf
• https://ritsumei.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=12554&item_no=1&attribute_id=22&file_no=1
• https://www.eilj.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/eil%20may%202011%20issue%201.pdf#page=88
• http://home.iitk.ac.in/~hcverma/Article/Macaulay-Minutes.pdf