Session 3: Experience Decolonising across disciplines in postgraduate research and supervision (April 2023)

Davina Whitnall Title: Do we need to deinstitutionalise first? Exploration of the issues and implications of decolonising knowledge for pedagogy Summary: Decolonising pedagogical practice remains a challenge in Higher Education (HE) despite institutional and sectoral steps to improve and change practice. This discussion aims to question current practice, asking 'are we doing enough' and how to ensure the steps taken by institutions or the sector more generally are effective to challenge and change the HE environment. Using the idea that 'to decolonise we need to deinstitutionalise' will form the basis of the provocation. This idea is based on a sociocultural approach to teaching in increasing awareness of anti-racist pedagogy and policies (Adams et al., 2008). The focus is in 'Dismantling Structures of Domination' within the world we live and the systemic structure that exists in HE. Therefore, if we wish to decolonise, we must first deinstitutionalise, highlighting the need to examine the cultural patterns and organisational structures that maintain present-day racial inequalities (Salter et al., 2018). This perspective emphasises changing the 'structures of mind' in context that reflect and reproduce racial narratives. In the discussion, we invite examples of dismantling practice such as taking learning into real-world contexts, deinstitutionalisation as well as decolonisation, moving beyond approaches that merely scratch the surface of decolonising pedagogy and identifying critical impacts and practices. Eleanor L. Anderson Title: Indigenous Allyship and its role in decolonizing research. Summary: Two-Eyed Seeing/ Etuaptmumk is a term coined by Mi'kmaw elder Albert Marshall to refer to seeing the strengths of Indigenous ways with one eye, and simultaneously seeing the strengths of Western ways with the other eye (Bartlett et all, 2012). The Two-Eyed Seeing expression has been used in research not only with Indigenous people, in policy and procedures related to wildlife health, medicine, education, and diverse ...