From Dorset to Oxfordshire to London to Bristol and beyond the campaign is spreading to change the school curriculum and to dump the colonisation of it by a parochial and de contextualised curriculum.
As part of this a student has launched a petition calling for all schools in the UK to decolonise their curriculum.
Maya Joseph-Chavez is a student at King’s College London and lives in Abingdon and has started the petition in light of tackling racism in Britain.
Ms Joseph-Chavez believes schools should teach a different version of history which does not glorify colonial ‘legacy’ and instead addresses the effect colonialism has had on modern day racism.
This petition calls for all schools in the United Kingdom to diversify, decolonize and restructure. This would involve teaching a different version of British history which does not glorify its colonial ‘legacy’ and instead would address the effect colonialism has had on modern day racism.
This ‘diversification’ and ‘decolonisation’ should expand into all subjects taught at school, particularly at GCSE level in subjects such as English and History and anything to do with art and culture. For example, traditional/classical literature should be taught alongside novels written by people of colour such as Nikesh Shukla’s ‘The Good Immigrant’ and Hanif Kureishi’s ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’.
These changes and many more should be made in order to create a feeling of inclusion and intersectionality within the education system and should essentially provide an education that benefits all not some.
To help change the racist nature of the curriculum in UK schools please sign the PETITION and campaign locally and nationally to rid ourselves of pointless facts that merely obscure our understanding of humanity in its entirety.
