ERIC Number: EJ1298947
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-7925
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Decolonial Pedagogy and English Literary Studies: Problematics in a Pakistani Context
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, v51 n4 p512-528 2021
We propose a decolonial pedagogy in the teaching of English Literature at the undergraduate level in postcolonial Pakistan. We argue that the English literary texts that are taught in conjunction with different supplementary materials retain a West-centric tilt that requires disbanding. Therefore, we administered carefully designed worksheets. These encouraged marginal thinking across the differential socio-historical canvases that outline the prescribed texts, online lectures, supplementary reading materials and the students' situatedness. The students used these resources as tools for practising a decolonial hermeneutics. By directing these tools towards their own lived situation, they intervened within the Western means of knowledge production and undid their alterity and historical silencing. By analysing the students' assignments as sites of decolonial articulation, we propose that decolonial pedagogy can be used to generate an intercultural intellectual solidarity that allows the formerly colonised to rethink themselves in a manner that no longer talks back to the Empire.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Policy, English Literature, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Western Civilization, Assignments, Worksheets, Reading Materials, Hermeneutics, History, Thinking Skills, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Barriers, Educational Change
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pakistan; United Kingdom
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