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Do we really practice the contents of our teaching in the way we teach? This is a toolbox of useful methods and classroom activities.<\/p>\n

Do you have any useful materials, inspiring texts, participatory teaching methods you can share? Simply drop us a message at knowledges [at] convivialthinking [dot] org<\/p>\n

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Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collective of colleagues in Musqueam land is doing some fascinating work on the conceptualization of education, convictions of knowledge, identity and understanding.<\/p>\n

Go and have a look at their pedagogical experiments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Where does “development” begin?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why not start talking about beginnings of “development” with this powerful excerpt from Aime Cesaire’s “Discourse on Colonialism”<\/a> rather with the Truman speech?<\/p>\n

They talk to me about progress, about “achievements,” diseases cured, improved standards of living.<\/p>\n

I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.<\/div>\n
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They throw facts at my head, statistics, mileages of roads, canals, and railroad tracks. I <\/span>am talk<\/span>ing about thousands of men sacrificed to the Congo-Ocean.<\/div>\n
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I am talking about those who, as I write this, are digging the harbor of Abidjan by hand. I am talking about millions of men torn from their gods, their land, their habits, their life-from life, from the dance, from wisdom. I am talking about millions of men in whom fear has been cunningly instilled, who have been taught to have an inferiority complex, to tremble, kneel, despair, and behave like flunkeys.<\/div>\n
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They dazzle me with the tonnage of cotton or cocoa that has been exported, the acreage that has been planted with olive trees or grapevines.<\/div>\n
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I am talking about natural economies that have been disrupted – harmonious and viable economies adapted to the indigenous population – about food crops destroyed, malnutrition permanently introduced, agricultural development oriented solely toward the benefit of the metropolitan countries, about the looting of products, the looting of raw materials.<\/div>\n
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Global Inequality Excercise<\/strong><\/p>\n

The excercise highlights the disparities of income, wealth, poverty and maldistribution. The added plus is tha[t when using chocolate bars to symbolise GDP, after the end of the activity usually a lovely dynamic of solidarity and redistribution happens when students share chocolates among each other.
\nA description of the excercise that can be easily adapted can be found here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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