Adopt a rigorous, action-oriented program that restores agency, repairs identity, and equips learners across the Caribbean, Africa, and the diaspora to analyze power and build practical solutions.
Built on the CRDEA Mental Decolonization Curriculum and Facilitator Guide. Localize to your country or district.
Political independence did not rewire colonial curricula. Many systems still center Europe as default and render African and Caribbean achievement marginal. The result is internalized inferiority, historical amnesia, and constrained aspiration.
Mental decolonization counters at the root. It treats identity, history, and power as core content. It connects scholarship to production. Learners read, debate, design, and publish artifacts that move beyond critique into institution-building.
Build critical consciousness. Understand major African and diaspora thinkers. Apply decolonial analysis to education, media, economics, and governance.
Modular units for schools and a 14-week intensive for teens. Weekly prompts, activities, and culminating projects ensure momentum.
Dialogue over lecture. Safe space protocols. Multimodal output. Consistent reflection. Practical rubrics for quality.
Prompt, probe, synthesize. Students practice argument and comparison over recall.
Each reading anchors a current dilemma. Each session ends with an action step.
Debate, poetry, zines, murals, simulations. Thought becomes public artifacts.
It is civic and scholarly. Students study primary texts and practice structured debate. The outcome is reasoning, not indoctrination.
Use 45–90 minute modules across subjects. Run weekend intensives at community sites. Start with a 14-week teen cohort.
The Facilitator Guide is a force multiplier. Pair short in-service training with mentorship.
Materials are simple. Leverage libraries and broadcasters. Partner with incubators for enterprise labs.
Diaspora hubs can move fast. Saturday schools, libraries, and youth clubs in London, Toronto, New York, Miami, Paris, Amsterdam, and Johannesburg can run the 14-week intensive with local mentors. Cohorts can share debates and zines across cities to practice transnational collaboration.
Grade bands with integrated modules and an accredited teen intensive.
Certified facilitators with annual refreshers and peer observation cycles.
Capstones in a public repository, plus exhibitions and policy submissions.
Week-by-week arc, readings, activities, and assessments. Ready to localize.
Download PDF Free to use with attributionDialogue methods, safe-space protocols, pacing tips, and rubrics.
Download PDF Train-the-trainerAdopt the framework. Fund pilots. Certify facilitators. Publish outcomes annually.
Contact CRDEAHost a Saturday cohort at your library or community center. Pair mentors with teens.
Host a CohortAsk schools to integrate modules. Enroll in the 14-week intensive. Attend showcases.
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