Decolonizing the curriculum means replacing articles of “formal education” or “literacy” (bourgeois intellectual property) with that which conscientizes in the Freirean (Woke) sense. The English literature curriculum has to be “decolonized” by removing Shakespeare because extant cultural objects that represent being educated have to be removed and replaced with something else that can be leveraged to raise a critical consciousness. This is to be accomplished through presenting “culturally relevant” materials (i.e., “generative” materials) instead. Those materials are “decolonized” materials.
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