Sonntag, 25. März 2018

It's time to diversify and decolonise our schools' reading lists

We don't need to teach books that capitalise on inaccurate stereotypes and vulgar tropes about marginalised communities.
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Instead, white savior books reinforce the extremely demeaning and derogatory notion that indigenous, black, and brown people exist only to serve the needs, goals and aspirations of white people - which when read could increase students' stress levels, while also negatively impacting their self-esteem and limiting their ability to see themselves as powerful agents of change in the world.
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In the meantime, it's high time educators realised that our policies about racism in school texts must go far above and beyond a conversation about racial slurs.  
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