In other words, “decolonizing” the curriculum, an apparently mysterious educational fad that’s done incredible damage in just a few years’ time, means replacing existing curriculum, especially when it reinforces the (Western) culture at hand, with potentially generative materials that challenge the existing culture and its terms. Not only is it an attempt at cultural destruction (what the Cultural Marxists called “aufheben der Kultur,” abolish the culture), it is also a means to introduce the maximum amount of Freirean generative material possible for the purpose of repurposing the curriculum
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