Tracy Isaacs 

Decolonial Conversations: A Panel on Decolonizing Learning  

Our panel on Decolonizing Learning will draw on the twelve-year Experiential Learning Course on and in Rwanda. This Interdisciplinary Experiential Learning course gives participants opportunities and tools to connect their education to the outside world and to become global citizens who will, through intercultural competence and sustainable critical and ethical engagement, build bridges between people, communities and cultures, between the Global South and the Global North. The panel will be an extension of The Rwanda Course Exhibition which is an integral part of the Decolonial Conversations conference. The panelists will share their research and reflection on how the course itself developed into an intellectual and intercultural journey towards new ways of learning and unlearning. Such a journey can help students, colleagues, academic leaders, and community partners to reimagine decolonial approaches which can foster true and relevant education for today’s world challenges through a broader and inclusive understanding of Knowledge (s).   

Biography 

Tracy Isaacs is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Western University specializing in ethics, including feminist ethics and food ethics. Her research focuses on individual and collective responsibility and obligation in the context of vast global problems whose solutions require coordinated collective efforts. These challenges include social and structural injustice, climate change, and global poverty.