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Working towards a decolonised curriculum in social work at Oxford Brookes University, UK, with the help of Hope Africa University, Burundi

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Here's a recently published c ase study that explains our work  3.6 Working towards a decolonised curriculum in social work at Oxford Brookes University, UK, with the help of Hope Africa University, Burundi p11 in Healey, R. & Healey, M. (2021)  Socially-just pedagogic practices in HE: Including equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, decolonising, indigenisation, well-being, and disability.   www.healeyheconsultants.co.uk/resources .

BBC radio Oxford interview with me on our work to Decolonise the Curriculum

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 Listen here! BBC radio Oxford interview with me on our work to Decolonise the Curriculum - shaking things up and making a difference Radio Oxford Kat Orman - 11/10/2021 - BBC Sounds Kat Orman 11/10/2021

This is me! how I turned into an authentic accomplice

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 So this is who I am.. Jill Childs Principal Lecturer in Social Work..  I have woven a innovative and complicated path to reach where I now stand as I survey the landscape, I realise, i t’s only one generation back that my great grandparents were in service as a scullery maid and footman in Grosvenor square contributing to hosting events for titled individuals. I have grown knowing what it means to value opportunities that are given to me, to appreciate my privilege and to respect opportunity. My path into Social Work began from my own failure in the education system at 18 and the consequent opportunity that arose by chance of volunteering Crisis at Christmas in an open access night shelter in central London over Christmas in Waterloo in 1992 to realising my dream to working with homeless people in a Dickensian night shelter environment in central London. Working with London's most excluded and difficult to reach. My work in 1993 in Cork, Ireland Simon Community working with alcoh