Taking the classroom into the real world: a scholar-activist's engagement with disruptive pedagogy

Location
The Venue@DMU
Date(s)
08/06/2022 (18:00-19:00)
Contact
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Description
Professorial Lecture by Momodou Sallah

Education can be the most potent tool of emancipation, or it can be the greatest psychological weapon of oppression. This lecture will explore issues of situatedness/positionality and its correlation to epistemicide and the legacy of colonialism. It will reflect on how and why pedagogies of disruption should be engendered in the journey towards a more participatory and liberatory approach to teaching and learning.

Prof. Momodou Sallah is the Director of the Centre for Academic Innovation and considers himself a scholar-activist engaged in disruptive pedagogy, interested in both bringing real life learning into the classroom and transformative learning within communities. He has numerous publications, including six books, in the fields of teaching and learning, poetry, and diversity (race and religion). His research interests include diversity, participatory methodologies, globalisation in relation especially to young people, and public engagement.

In June 2013, he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the UK Higher Education Academy. In November 2015, he was named the "Most Innovative Teacher" in the UK by Times Higher. He has more than 25 years' experience working with young people at local, national and international levels.

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