Workshop Date and Time: Sunday, June 7th 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Workshop Location: MB 3.430
Organizers: Alia Wazzan, Brock University
Workshop Description: This workshop supports teachers not rooted in postcolonial feminist theory in identifying and disrupting normalized racialized and gendered assumptions about the “Other” that shape classroom discussions. Drawing on real statements from feminist classrooms, the workshop examines how hierarchical binaries, internalized racism, and “saving” logics enter pedagogical spaces through normalized common sense. Grounded in postcolonial feminist theory, the workshop translates key theoretical insights into an accessible pedagogy through interactive reflection, guided exercises, and rewriting practices. Participants work to de-essentialize women’s oppression, identify hidden curricula, and reframe classroom discourse by attending to material conditions, power structures, and non-Western forms of agency and resistance.
Skills (Objectives) • Learn to decolonize classroom conversations • Develop strategies to create more inclusive and genuinely diverse learning environments • Identify and flatten hierarchical binaries • Recognize hidden curricula in classroom discussions • Guide students toward critical awareness of mainstream assumptions • Increase the visibility of students of color’s voices in predominantly majority-culture spaces
Maximum Number of Participants: 35
