Date: 25th April 2024
Title: Geographies of Empire
Facilitator: Yemurai Soper-Gwatidzo
Description: This session will explore how to create an engaging, receptive and empathic scheme of work to teach to young people that embodies decolonising the curriculum, how to incorporate different narratives and perspectives using a range of resources and pedagogical approaches, and how to combine cross-curricular links within a school environment.
Intended audience: Teachers of Geography, history, religion/philosophy, politics, and economics and primary teachers with humanities specialisms.
Bio: Yemurai Soper-Gwatidzo is a former Geography teacher who has worked in mainstream schools in the Midlands and London, and later at the independent school, Dulwich College. Yemurai has a keen interest in decolonising the curriculum and is passionate about creating diverse and inclusive resources, as demonstrated by the scheme of work she created, titled Geographies of Empire.