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Why is my curriculum white?
Published on 11 Nov 2014
In the NUS Black Students Campaign National Students Survey, it was found that, '42 per cent did not believe their curriculum reflected issues of diversity, equality and discrimination.'
This is one of the few things in life, along with Two Black Girls of course, that I am incredibly proud to have been involved with. We delved into our own experiences as black faces in Higher Education in episode five and let's just say recording that episode was painful in many ways. We need to keep talking about higher education and its blinding whiteness from the academic staff (don't forget that the UK only has eighty-five black professors our of 20,000) to the curriculum itself, and the impact it has on students of color.
PS: I love everything that was said in this but hands down my favourite part was when one of the speakers described people's attitude towards empire as 'they think it was an Elizabethan NGO'.
-Vimbai
Why is my curriculum white?
In the NUS Black Students Campaign National Students Survey, it was found that, '42 per cent did not believe their curriculum reflected issues of diversity, equality and discrimination.' In addition, it found that, '34 per cent stated they felt unable to bring their perspective as a Black [BME] student to lectures and tutor meetings. A running theme through both the survey and focus group data was a frustration that courses were designed and taught by non-Black teachers, and often did not take into account diverse backgrounds and views'. As a result, the NUS proposed a set of recommendations, including the notion that, 'institutions must strive to minimise Euro-centric bias in curriculum design, content and delivery and to establish mechanisms to ensure this happens. Universities Scotland has published an excellent example of why and how this can be done in their race equality toolkit, Embedding Race Equality into the Curriculum'.