Unsettling Colonial Curriculum: Pedagogies of Well-being and Educational Pathways to Liberation

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

On the one hand, we wish to discuss how folks have been personally, professionally, mentally and spiritually unsettled by the presence of colonial curriculum in our respective disciplines. On the other, we seek to theorize unsettling the existing colonial curriculum. Jacqui Alexander’s (2005) assertion that curriculum can serve as a means by which we may “imagine collectivities that can thrive outside of hegemony’s death-grip” (p. 8) rightly situates curriculum as central to pedagogies of liberation.