Theories, Policies and Practices

Revisiting bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress’, I found this quote that highlights for me potential reasons for reluctance to talk about race. This is something I want to explore as I think that in order to empower and unlearn biases, we need to talk about them. This is the quote: ‘The unwillingness to approach teaching……

I spoke to Dr Thandi Loewenson, a teacher at Royal College of Art about practical resources for learning about race. A couple weeks after our conversation she sent me this from Ruha Benjamin’s ‘Race after technology’: ‘Every year I teach an undergraduate course on race and racism and I typically begin the class with an……

Something I am thinking about is how to get students to think and reflect upon their racial position in the classroom. There are several reasons I think it is important for me to do this as a teacher on the BA Performance: Design & Practice course: Firstly, the course is diverse in someways, and not……