Decolonisation of education (Math, science, and History and philosophy of science) links
Wednesday, June 4th, 2014New videos
Here is a link to a video interview (over 9 hours) with Claude Alvares on a variety of issues concerning decolonisation of education. This has been posted by Multiversity TV, and I should have posted it long ago on my blog.
http://tvmultiversity.blogspot.in/2014/02/c-k-raju-interviewed-by-claude-alvares.html
History and Philosophy of Science
Part 5 of the above video series has interviews with students of the new “decolonised” course on History and Philosophy of Science (HPS). Some details of the new course, pictures of students etc. were earlier posted on this blog at
The genesis of the HPS curriculum, the international conference which preceded it, and minutes of discussion at Universiti Sains Malaysia are posted at
The actual curriculum of the courses which ran at AiU are posted at
HPS-1
http://ckraju.net/hps-aiu/History-and-Philosophy-of-Science-curriculum.pdf
HPS-2
http://ckraju.net/hps2-aiu/HPS-2-syllabus.pdf
Math education
As for math education, my experiments with my decolonised course on calculus have already been reported in scholarly articles such as