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Decolonise the UK school curriculum and taught material across all subjects

Submitted on Saturday 13th June 2020

Rejected on Friday 10th July 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Decolonise the UK school curriculum and taught material across all subjects

Petition Details

Critically review the taught material (books, and resources) as well as the core, taught curriculum for all subjects across UK schools, to remove the dominant perspectives of Western/ Euro-centric writers and academics and replace with more diverse literature, voice and material.

Additional Information

UK universities have already started to pave the way to decolonise their teaching material, and I would like this petition to advocate for British schools to do the same. By reviewing Western/ Euro-centric material in British schools, and elevating the resources, voices and culture of non-Western historians, poets, storytellers and countries (to name a few), children will learn to deeply engage with perspectives that differ from their own, and build towards a more socially just society.


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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324934

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