Decolonisation of education (Math, science, and History and philosophy of science) links
New 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
Teaching math with a different philosophy 1 and
Teaching math with a different philosophy 2
More details, pictures of some of the students of this course in Sarnath, Tehran, and Ambedkar University Delhi, and links to other papers are at
Presentations
Recent presentations on decolonising math and science education have been posted.
–Tehran day-long talk on “Decolonising math education” Feb 2014 (see especially the table on how science changes if math does)
http://ckraju.net/papers/presentations/decolonizing-mathematics.pdf
–Helsinki talks on “Decolonising math and science education”, August 2013
http://ckraju.net/Helsinki/Helsinki-talk-part-1.pdf
http://ckraju.net/Helsinki/Helsinki-talk-part-2.pdf
–Wardha talk on “Swaraj in thought” Dec 2011
http://ckraju.net/papers/Swaraj-in-thought.pdf
–Penang talk on “Decolonising math and science”, 2011
http://ckraju.net/papers/decolonising.pdf
Related paper“Decolonising math and science”. In Decolonizing our Universities, Claude Alvares and Shad Faruqi ed., Citizens International and USM, 2012, chp. 13, pp. 162-195, http://ckraju.net/papers/decolonisation-paper.pdf.
Video of the talk is first 34 minutes of the one at http://vimeo.com/26506961
Press
Articles in Dainik Bhaskar
(For English versions of these, see the links at http://ckraju.net/Euclid.)
Related discussion of the decolonisation paper in the press in Malaysia
Other press reports
Mathematics? No problem! New Strait Times, Malaysia, 24 July 2011. http://ckraju.net/press/2011/NST-24-July-2011-pH1-H2-reduced.pdf
Escaping the clutches of colonisation New Sunday Times, 17 July 2011, p. H1, p. H2, p. H3. http://ckraju.net/press/2011/NST-17-July-2011-pH1.gif, http://ckraju.net/press/2011/NST-17-July-2011-pH2.gif, http://ckraju.net/press/2011/NST-17-July-2011-pH3.gif
