Ungrading as a Decolonial Practice

Tuesday, September 17, 2024
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Location change: Campus Center Executive Dining Room

This workshop explores the practice of ungrading not only as a way of returning the intrinsic joy of learning to students but also as a way of “unsettling” the university. Professor Karen Jolly presents examples from her recent experiments in undergraduate classrooms intertwining:

• Ungrading: students self-assess their learning according to a rubric and in response to instructor feedback
• A Sense of Place in Hawaiʻi:  using Indigenous knowledge systems to subvert the modern western model of education

Ungrading is a quintessential tool for decolonizing the academy from the grassroots, even while systemic change to the university is slow to come.  Participants will have an opportunity to flip their own courses’ Student Learning Outcomes into an ungrading rubric as well as consider ways to appropriately apply concepts and practices in our Native Hawaiian Place of Learning.

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Presented by

Karen Jolly
Professor, History

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This event is sponsored by the OFDAS Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE).