Below is a list of links to the tools discussed throughout this section which
can support practitioners to put this principle into practice.
• Decolonising the curriculum – how do I get started? | THE Campus
• How not to decolonise your curriculum | Wonkhe
• Five ways ancient India changed the world – with maths (theconversation.com)
• Commentary: Disentangling anti-Blackness from physics | Physics
Today | AIP Publishing
• Decolonising the Engineering curriculum in a South African University of Technology
• Education for mental health toolkit, Advance HE.
• How the West Was Won: A Deconstruction of Politicised Colonial Engineering
• Decolonising the curriculum: Teaching and learning about race equality
• Universal Design for Learning - CAST
• Universal Design for Learning - AHEAD
• Inclusive Learning and the Provision of Reasonable Accommodations
• DAWN Reasonable Accommodations in Exams Guidelines - AHEAD
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (w3.org)
• Guidance on alt text descriptions
• Guidance on styling headers correctly in Word so that a screen reader can navigate them
• Guidance on inclusive fonts
• Guidance on ensuring sufficient colour contrast between text and background
• Guidance on creating accessible presentations and handouts in
PowerPoint and Word: Appendix 4.
Areas of practice | Considerations | ✓ |
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Identify and challenge assumptions |
Have I understood what may be centred, what is given little focus and what is absent from my curriculum?
Have I taken steps to ensure the examples, case studies or scenarios used in teaching and assessment represent a diversity of contexts?
Have I built opportunities into activities or assessment for students to critique historic lack of diversity or equality in subject disciplines, and consider what they might do about it?
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Diversify reading lists and critique canon |
Have I worked with my library/EDI team to diversify the materials students are referred to?
Have I created opportunities for students to critique subject knowledge and the ‘canon’ from the perspective of diversity and inclusion?
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Diversity curriculum content |
Have I considered the language, images, case studies and cultural references used in course materials to ensure that they are diverse and positive reflect protected characteristics?
Have I built opportunities into activities or assessment for students to study diverse topics and examples of their choice?
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Accessibility of curriculum |
Have I checked if I am following Universal Design for Learning Principles in the development of the curriculum? You can check if you are here Guidelines - The Principles in Practice - AHEAD
Have I considered the reasonable accommodations I may need to put in place for students to meet the learning outcomes?
Is guidance on accessibility, inclusion available within the TU that I can share with my students.
Are my digital curriculum and resources WCAG compliant?
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