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I. Gusti Agung Paramitha Eka Putri; Helen Widdop Quinton; Mark Selkrig – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Enhancing creativity skills and dispositions is one of the many student capabilities academics in higher education are required to promote. Although there are several issues that can hamper academics' engagement with creativity including demands of performance indicators and limited freedom to experiment with teaching. In this article, we consider…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Creative Activities
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Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar; Olga Mun – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
What ethical and political considerations does zine-making raise in teaching and learning across knowledge systems and artful expression? This question guides the critical dialogue about a research project on teaching sustainability through traditional proverbs from Malaysia and Kazakhstan within a zine-making workshop in a UK university. Merging…
Descriptors: Proverbs, Workshops, Learning Processes, Decolonization
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Edwards, Kirsten T.; Shahjahan, Riyad A. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
A concerted attempt to offer a temporal lens (the way we make sense of and relate to time changes) underlying decolonizing pedagogy and curriculum (DCP) remains absent. Drawing on student resistance as an entry point, we offer a temporal account of DCP by unearthing the entanglements between past, present, and future underlying DCP enactments. We…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Policy, Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods
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Guzmán Valenzuela, Carolina – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Since the colonial era, Latin American universities have been subjected to narratives about what it means to be a university. Drawing on the concept of coloniality, this paper examines curricular and teaching practices in higher education that aim to decolonise Latin American universities, a particular topic that has been under-investigated. By…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Change, Multicultural Education, Socialization
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Leenen-Young, Marcia; Naepi, Sereana; Thomsen, Patrick Saulmatino; Fa'avae, David Taufui Mikato; Keil, Moeata; Matapo, Jacoba – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
For Pacific early career academics (PECA) in Aotearoa, there is a tension between the Indigenous knowledges inherited from our Pacific ancestors and those we have been taught within the western education system. As Pacific educators teaching an increasingly Pacific student-body, we have sought to define our own spaces within the lecture theatre…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Pacific Islanders, Cultural Influences
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Wernicke, Meike – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
Teaching a graduate course focused on critical understandings of interculturality offers an opportune space in which to explore decolonizing pedagogical practices. In this short paper, I examine my own attempts at decolonizing students' experiences of intercultural learning by incorporating non-Western knowledge systems to draw attention to…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Racial Bias, Graduate Students, Teaching Methods
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Harvey, Arlene; Russell-Mundine, Gabrielle – Teaching in Higher Education, 2019
The context of this paper is a strategy at a large Australian university that involves embedding a new graduate quality 'cultural competence' and lifting the profile of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, experiences and histories. It has been argued that the inclusion of Indigenous knowledges is essential for the decolonisation of our…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Cultural Awareness, Pacific Islanders
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Adds, Peter; Hall, Meegan; Higgins, Rawinia; Higgins, Te Ripowai – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
When the Maori goddess, "Hinetitama", asked the Maori god, "Tane", who her father was, he replied, "Uia ki nga pou o t whare ... Ask the posts of your house". This traditional Maori (indigenous people of New Zealand) story implies a cultural teaching pedagogy that utilises the "marae" (a Maori building…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Populations, Transformative Learning