"For Viking and Early Medieval English Studies," Fox News reported, introducing The Telegraph's article.
Nazism and the Vikings
Within the program, the term "Anglo-Saxon" was also removed from the module "Research methods in Viking and Anglo-Saxon studies" and replaced by "early medieval English".
"The university also announced that it is trying to 'problematize the term 'Viking'' in the curriculum," adds The Telegraph, noting that the term was banned due to its connotations of "race, empire, Nazism" and, on the other hand,
in relation to concerns about "the cultural and mythological connections of the North".
deleted from the teaching materials. It is not clear from the justification why "connection with Nordic mythology" is harmful.
A lengthy explanation on the University of Nottingham website also underlines the "decolonization of the curriculum in English studies", talks about efforts to emphasize the role of "black communities" and "problematising nationalist discourses that privilege white English-speaking citizens in the UK and US". .
There is no such thing as Irish and Scottish
As reported by the Telegraph
"this step follows a promise made in the wake of the BLM movement's protests,
that they decolonize the curriculum”. The term refers to a shift away from Western-centric material and the "elimination of the dominance of white voices" in academic life. The University of Nottingham is just one of a number of British higher education institutions that are doing away with the term "Anglo-Saxon peoples"; their aim is to act "against nationalism among the ethnically English" worldwide.
Cambridge's Department of Anglo-Saxon, Nordic and Celtic Studies also reportedly worked to "destroy the foundations of the myths of nationalism", arguing not only that the Anglo-Saxons did not exist as a distinct ethnic group, but that there were no "cohesive" Scottish, Irish and nor Welsh ethnic identities.
Indian-American feminist replaces Plato
Efforts to decolonize education have affected several subjects, including philosophy: the University of London's SOAS, formerly the School of Oriental and African Studies, has sidelined classical Greek thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle in favor of "modern thinkers" such as an Indian-American feminist, one
a Nigerian "gender theorist" and a Japanese Zen expert.
Multicultural mathematics
After the subject "critical race theory" consisting of extremist propaganda materials was already included in the "recommended courses" for graduation in the United Kingdom in 2022, more recently courses on colonization are also held within the framework of computer science education.
These courses deal with
"how the divisions and hierarchies of colonial values are repeated and reinforced within the subject of computing".
The teaching of mathematics is also "given a task", it must "present a multicultural and decolonized view of mathematics".
Source: hirado.hu
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