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Module Content

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This module provides a creative and critical approach to connecting the lived experiences of racialisation and educational violence within higher education to broader questions of race and intersectional oppression, systemic violence, the politics of education, and the role of historical, cultural and social specificity within this. By putting critical pedagogical, decolonial, and anthropological debates in conversation with one another, this module will equip students to develop their own critical insights into questions of accessibility, educational violence, and pedagogy. Staff and students will be required to reflect on their own experience of higher education and to incorporate readings from a range of sources and perspectives.ÌýÌý

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This module will teach students collaborative storytelling methods, supporting them to tell their own stories through various audio-visual media. Combining taught theoretical and ethnographic content with these practical methods, students will be guided through a process of collaborative storytelling that reflects their experiences and understandings of the relationships between racism and educational violence, as well as how this connects to broader social and political questions. It will be run as an undergraduate option module and will be available as an option to students on the BSc Anthropology programme in second and third years.ÌýÌý

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The module takes educational violence broadly to mean the systematic erosion and oppression of students’ confidence and capacities through an educational culture that excludes them, and educational structures - from pedagogical ideologies to assessment types - that are stacked against them.ÌýÌý

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Topics covered will include but not be limited to:Ìý
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• Critical pedagogy;Ìý

• Structural violence;Ìý

• History, archives and power;Ìý

• Storytelling and emotion;Ìý

• Multimodality;Ìý

• Multimedia practice – including practical audio-visual recording and editing skills.Ìý

ThisÌýmultimodalÌýmodule explores how lived experiences of racialisation and educational violence in higher education connects to broader issues of race, oppression, systemic violence, educational politics, and the role of historical, culturalÌýand social specificity within this. Ìý

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This module was co-designed with a group of Anthropology students (23/24) to address racism and the BAME awarding GapÌýat UCL, which refers to the disparities in academic achievement and attainment betweenÌýUKÌýstudents from theÌýÌýand their white counterparts.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, learners are expected to be able to:Ìý

• ÌýAnalyse anthropological, pedagogical, and decolonial literature, connecting it to their own and others' lived experiences of education and educational violence.Ìý

• Use audio-visual storytelling skills to communicate research findings and personal experiences in ways beyond traditional written formats.Ìý

• Comprehend the political, economic, and cultural influences driving the 'awarding gap' and broader inequalities within higher education and society.Ìý

Indicative Teaching DeliveryÌý

2hr seminar (taught content plus discussion with lecturer) plus 1hr tutorial (discussion of logbook/taught content), students will be expected to read texts to prepareÌý

2 hr Practical workshop plus 1 hr tutorial (review and peer feedback on methods), students expected to do independent project work using practice-based skillsÌý

Additional Information

There will be two formative assessments, split across the two terms.Ìý

Term 1 – Reflective logbook. This logbook will reflect on the theoretical and pastoral discussions and readings relating to racism, educational violence, critical pedagogy, care, and the classroom. Each week student will be completing their logbook with some diary style notes (1-2 paragraphs max.). The logbook will be digital and will also be able to incorporate some photographs, quotes, screenshots, etc.Ìý

Term 2 – Multimedia portfolio reflecting on the process of making the storytelling outputs and bringing this into conversation with the theoretical discussions from the seminars. Each week student will be completing their logbook with some diary style reflection notes (1-2 paragraphs max.) on the short multimedia exercises that will be completed in the classroom. The logbook will also include the links to the completed multimedia exercises.Ìý