Mobilising difficult knowledge in higher education and implications for student futures
Helen Knowler shares findings from UCL’s Eugenics Legacy Education project (ELEP), thinking through concepts such as accountability, implication, and reparative education.
Mobilising difficult knowledge in higher education and implications for student futures
09 Jan 2025, 12:30 – 13:30
In this seminar, Helen will discuss what the mobilisation of difficult knowledge means in understanding the history and legacy of eugenics at UCL – and how it can be taught in the context of a relevant curriculum.
She will explore how educators can consider how students are likely to experience strong emotions when they are made aware of this history, and how this learning can be mediated as part of an education strategy. Helen will suggest ways to support staff to work with the complexities of introducing difficult knowledge.
This event will be particularly useful for all those interested the relationship between reparative approaches to education, social justice, and higher education.
Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online.
Related links
- Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP)
- UCL Knowledge Lab
- Department of Culture, Communication and Media
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Galton Collection.
She leads the Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP) which focuses on developing the educational outcomes of UCL’s Eugenics Inquiry Report. Helen collaborates with colleagues across UCL to explore the ways that UCL’s eugenics history and resources can be incorporated into different disciplinary contexts to support critical engagement with epistemic injustice, reparative pedagogies, and socially just education futures.
Her teaching expertise and research interests are closely aligned and broadly relate to inclusive education. She is interested in the role of educators in developing inclusive education in their own contexts and the ways that professional support and professional learning act as levers for this development.
Further information
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Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes
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