Spring 2027

Coloniality of Language and Science in Education

Explores interdisciplinary theories on coloniality in education research, focusing on hierarchies of language, race, and scientific reason through raciolinguistic and postcolonial lenses.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Katie Kirchgasler

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Read and discuss core literature related to postcolonial science studies, raciolinguistic studies, and cultural studies, and articulate implications of these theories for education research, policy, or practice.

  • Describe how science, language, voice, race, and coloniality have been theorized across literatures.

  • Analyze assumptions of science, language, race, or coloniality in an educational artifact and makes explicit the analytic of power

  • Research and write a paper examining the coloniality or racialization of language, science, and education in relation to the student’s research interests.

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CURRIC 823

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Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KATIE KIRCHGASLER is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Interdisciplinary theories on coloniality in education research
  • Historicizing and interrogating hierarchies of language, race, and scientific reason
  • Analytics of power from raciolinguistic perspectives, postcolonial science studies, and postfoundational curriculum studies

Skills

  • Articulate implications of postcolonial and raciolinguistic theories for education research, policy, or practice.
  • Describe how science, language, voice, race, and coloniality are theorized across various academic literatures.
  • Analyze assumptions of science, language, race, or coloniality in educational artifacts and make explicit the analytic of power.
  • Research and write a paper examining the coloniality or racialization of language, science, and education relative to personal research interests.

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CURRIC 823 · Spring 2027

Coloniality of Language and Science in Education

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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