Decolonising

*Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences By Dr Jacqueline Dohaney (she/her) In a recent meeting of ScotGEESE (a community for Scottish geography, earth, and environmental sciences educators), I learned about the current challenges and opportunities that many geoscience students are encountering in school and university education. Our topic for the meeting was ‘GEES education in a changing world’, and we invited speakers from across secondary and tertiary GEES education to share their vision of where we are going as a community of educators. Two important themes emerged on the day that are relevant to DiG-UK: Though neither of these two themes are ‘new’ to those concerned with improving equity and diversity in the geosciences, it was really striking to see what specific barriers students and teachers are encountering in the Scotland context. In this blog, I will share what I learned and some reflections on my experiences with both themes. 1. Working class students’ access to and choice for GEES subjects I grew up in Nova… Read More »Access to GEES* education for working class students, and decolonising curricula