CLO 1 . Articulate the impact of culture and language on learning through narrative which shows an understanding of decolonising pedagogical approaches across future practice for and with children,...

The whole concept of learning in the primary years of life depends on the kind of education provided, learnt and implemented by the parents of the children. The parents further depend on what they have learnt and the environment they have lived in during their adulthood. It is a continuous process that evolves in respect to the kind of experiences gathered and the age of the parents when they are having the child. However, the core idea of teaching the children to think according to the parent’s justified methods and not to decide on their own remains constant. It is because everyone wants their child to carry the thought process of the parents, including the parents from every progressive, liberal or radical family. Every one of them has their own justifications to situations and considers themselves to be the best out of the set.
However, discussing on the colonization era or the decolonising, there are a spectrum of various thoughts surrounding it. While some argue that colonization brought modern education to the world, a great deal of importance needs to be paid to the loss of indigenous thoughts and mode of education. With colonization, the education system became the slave of the colonizing powers and only their thought process was held superior. The people who were provided education during that period would also preach similar ideas to their offspring’s and thus the cycle continues. The fantasy to copy a foreign nation’s style and culture, which has been hypothetically proved to be the best through the colonizing period set education standards, leaves the indigenous cultures and thoughts to starve to death.
There is another truth to this story that narratives keep on changing after every 6-7 decades. The colonizing powers who were once providing a certain kind of education in one nation, would suddenly find the same idea getting protested against in their homeland. Plenty of examples could be provided in this regard. The world was all peaceful and pollution free before the industrial revolution. Human’s did industrial revolution because that is what seemed to be the right thing to do at that point of time. But soon the humans realised about the polluting side effects and a counter propaganda began to float, from those nations only where industrial revolution began. The awareness on the usage of fossil fuels has increased so much that today we are trying hard for cleaner sources of energy. Similarly, the world was considerably secular and sympathetic to Muslims or Islam till the late 1990’s, when Taliban and Al-Qaeda began to rise. After the increase in terrorism, the sympathy began to shift and thus today most of the conservatives all around the world have convinced the public of an Islamic threat, and have managed to capture power playing on that note only. However, this is also not permanent, after a few decades, the sympathy would again mount in favour of Islam, which would surely be backed by certain more reasons and series of acts.
The point behind the whole explanation is the present day experiences effect on the kind of education we impart to our child. Their experiences as an adult decide what they have got to impart to their children. A girl who has received education from an English medium school would normally try teaching her son the English words from the very beginning. Any other girl from any other native school where the mode of education is the local language is more likely to teach her son the local customs and languages much better. The role of education system and job availability also decides heavily for the upbringing of any child in any region. The job in a region if asks for English fluency more than the local language, then it is likely for the children there to deviate away from their mother tongue and practice things that could earn them bread and butter. The loss of culture and language that began with the colonization period is very much active till now. The colonizers, who implemented their education system over such a big population, actually succeeded more in comparison to what the nations did after coming out of colonization, as in most of the cases, the language of the colonizers became the most preferred language for official purpose in the previously colonized nation. The basic concept behind the colonizers was to destroy the existing ideas and bring in their thought process over the land that they rule. The people, who educated out of their system, were only able to perform high rank jobs, thus receiving heavy salary and hence they decided the course of the society. The loss of a nation’s own thought process on social issues could corrupt it to a situation, where it loses its own independent existence but becomes a messed up photo copy of the colonizers.
The solution to it could never be easy, with an ever expanding population but as long as paid agendas are going to get circulated through social media, the corruption of young minds would continue to happen. The process of decolonization needs to begin from rectifying the educational system to providing a correct assessment and factual data study of the Nation’s history where the indigenous cultures and defenders are discussed elaborately. The social science part of the education system plays a special role here. The social science should deal with the societal structure of the ancient times of the nation. It should not only cite the rules that existed back then but also explain the reasons behind them, from the historical point of view. The ignorance and lack of knowledge about one’s own history drives them easily to the foreign...