This video reflect back to all the reading and articles related to our lecture we had on decolonising higher education. Professor Shirley Anne tates videos and writing on the topic that :this unconscious bias is not really an unconscious any more and society can not use this as a lame excuse in order not to deal with existing issues on race and faith and gender inequality? One Major question to ask ourselves and perhaps to ask from our own wider society is :
Has the time not come to stop all these excuses and act like responsible society towards respecting and believing our our mutual human norms ?
29th July 2022 @ 10:30 am
Shahpar – I found Professor Tate’s writing around (un)conscious bias to be a watershed moment in my understanding of institutional inequalities and the conscious act of excusing this behaviour due to it being unconscious. I understood how I as a white man could disappear into systems that would put my peers under a microscope. I’ve been working to decolonise my curriculum, particularly through the artefact, I wondered if you had any personal experience of decolonising your resources, and if so what your experience was? If you had any resources you found to be of particular support?