Decolonising the cultural policy and management curriculum – reflections from practice
Gaio, A., Joffe, A., Hernández-Acosta, J. J. & Dragićević Šešić, M. (2023). Decolonising the cultural policy and management curriculum – reflections from practice. Cultural Trends, 33(2), pp. 141-158. doi: 10.1080/09548963.2023.2168515
Abstract
Decolonising the curriculum is a global imperative that takes different forms and urgency depending on the context. Developments across the globe such as BlackLivesMatter and student responses to the pandemic and online learning have raised new questions about the curriculum – critically questioning higher education institutions’ plans about not only providing access to resources but about the (cultural) authority of curricula, pedagogical and research practices that are still dominated by Western discourses. This paper examines three experiences of curriculum decolonisation in cultural policy and management, an applied subject that has culture as its object, in three different contexts, Serbia, Puerto Rico and South Africa: namely how the pursuit of a pluriversal knowledge ecology found expression in the curriculum, content and pedagogical practices deployed to deliver locally relevant education; and how educators resolved the ontological and epistemic discontinuities between the standard disciplinary canon and local realities to embed and contextualise the discipline.
| Publication Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Publisher Keywords: | Decolonisation; epistemic justice; curriculum; content; pedagogy; cultural policy and management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
| Departments: | School of Communication & Creativity > Media, Culture & Creative Industries |
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