confessions of a lifelong learner
(Anti)racism and Pedagogy conference 5 December 2008
This was a conference presented by the Hawke institute
at UniSA together with the indigenous research institute at Flinders
Uni. See the conference program
here
Abstracts and speaker bios are here
Unfortunately the second speaker, Linda Smith from NZ was unwell and not able to be at the conference. The other speakers were excellent, although Professors Alhuwalia and Soudein were both a bit esoteric.
Main insights from this conference: Is 'race' a social construct or is it 'real'. If it is 'real', then anti-racism is the ethical way to go. If race is just a social structure then anti-racism is an absurd position, because it implies that race exists. Rather, the abolition of racial categories, including 'white', is the way to go.
This abolitionist POV is promoted by some
scholars and a website (not recently updated).
Tags:
anti-racism
pedagogy
Posted at 10:51AM Dec 06, 2008
by Nigel Mitchell |
Nigel Mitchell
- Location
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Organisation
- Australian Science Teachers Association
- Sector
- More than one sector
- Role
- Teacher/Educator
- Communities
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Australian Studies, BeginningTeacher, Church, distance education, e-learning, history teachers, online learning, Religious Education, SOSE, Studies of Religion
