From Diversity to Decolonization - Multicultural Education in the Neoliberal University

关于欧洲中心主义在社会科学中盛行的说法，在公共领域越来越多地被讨论。那些参与运动的人认为，大学课程不合理地将西方产生的知识置于优先地位，大学教授的东西会重现性别和种族主义的社会等级制度。因此，他们声称，高等教育需要非殖民化。奇怪的是，这些高等教育非殖民化的努力与英国大学保障学生和教职员工机会平等、鼓励教师队伍、学生群体和课程多样化的广泛尝试是平行的。然而，这种增加多样性的体制举措是在高等教育进行更大规模重组的背景下进行的；批评教育的学者认为，新自由主义大学治理伴随着人文和社会科学学科的贬值，以及不容易与市场目标保持一致的关键知识。

Claims about the prevalence of eurocentrism in the social sciences are increasingly discussed in the public realm. Those involved in campaigns such as the recent 'Rhodes Must Fall' movement argue that university curricula unjustifiably privilege knowledge produced in the 'West', and that what is taught at universities serves to reproduce gendered and racialized social hierarchies. Higher Education, they claim, is therefore in need of decolonization.Somewhat paradoxically, these efforts to decolonize HE are parallelled by UK universities' widespread attempts to guarantee equality of opportunity for students and staff, and to encourage diversity in teaching faculty, student body and curriculum. Such institutional moves towards increasing diversity are, however, taking place in a context of larger restructurings of HE; critical educational scholars argue that neoliberal university governance is accompanied by a devaluation of humanities and social science subjects, and of critical knowledge which cannot easily be aligned with market goals.