Wednesday 1st May from 17:00-18:00 [UK-time] marks the informal launch of the UK’s first fully comprehensive Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit. The toolkit is the principal output of one of the 23/24 SOAS’s Co-Creator Internship projects. The toolkit has been co-created by 4 undergraduate students at SOAS and 4 academic philosophers at SOAS. It is a landmark exercise in critical pedagogical practice in UK academic philosophy.

The research and pedagogical expertise that has been put into the toolkit’s creation and dissemination will also function as contributing to secondary schoolteachers’ and university staff’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD). This is because the toolkit contains state-of-the-art knowledge that will be immensely helpful for improving one’s own practices – from high-level discourse about the problematic effects of colonialism, empire, and racism on philosophical knowledge production and how to overcome these, through detailed guidance about how to enshrine classroom settings as creative and liberatory spaces, qualitative data about belonging, marginalisation, invisibilisation, as well as mechanisms for decolonising assessment in philosophy, and an example of a decolonial core module of philosophy in action. The toolkit is also designed to benefit secondary- and tertiary-level students in part by inspiring them to conceptually interrogate existing knowledge, following in the footsteps of the student interns.

At the Zoom launch event, you’ll hear from the student and staff authors of the project, and have ample opportunity for Q&A about the toolkit and its possible uses from 24/25.

To register for the launch event, please visit here.