Dismantling the Master’s House with the Master’s Tools Audrey Lorde famously said in 1984, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Many would agree that it is impossible…

Staff-student partnership a grass-roots approach decolonising the curriculum This talk discusses staff-student partnership initiative to decolonise the curriculum (Bhambra et al., 2020; Arday and Mirza 2018) at the University of…

Dismantling the Master’s House with the Master’s Tools In this presentation I will explore how it is possible to decolonise pedagogy and the key principles that underpin this. Firstly, I…

Encountering Serendipity on the Island of Serendib: Working toward an ELLA-inspired narrative research venture across Sri Lanka My relationship with Sri Lanka started out of nowhere. For some strange reason,…

First Knowledging and First Languaging as Transformative Education First Nations peoples have sustained their cultural and linguistic practices for tens of thousands of years, developing sophisticated First knowledge of nature,…