{"id":17574,"date":"2024-09-10T04:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T04:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/?p=17574"},"modified":"2024-09-10T04:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T04:23:50","slug":"major-uk-university-to-remove-term-anglo-saxon-to-decolonize-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cissar.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/10\/major-uk-university-to-remove-term-anglo-saxon-to-decolonize-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Major UK university to remove term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ to ‘decolonize’ curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A British college<\/a> that offers courses in medieval history is reportedly scrutinizing multiple historical terms out of concern that they evoke nationalism.<\/p>\n

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British news outlet The Telegraph reported<\/a> that the term “Anglo-Saxon” is under scrutiny at the University of Nottingham. “In a move to \u2018decolonise the curriculum,\u2019 professors have renamed a masters course in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies as Viking and Early Medieval English Studies,” the outlet reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition, the same source also reported that a module within the program titled “Research Methods in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies” has had the “Anglo-Saxon” term removed in favor of “Early Medieval English.” It also claimed that English literature module “A Tale of Seven Kingdoms: Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age England from Bede to Alfred the Great” was also renamed “Early medieval England from Bede to Alfred the Great.”<\/p>\n

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The University of Nottingham, a British college that specializes in medieval history, is reportedly scrutinizing multiple historical terms out of concern that they evoke nationalism. Picture date: Tuesday June 13, 2023. (Photo by Mike Egerton\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Anglo-Saxons aren\u2019t the only identity being scrutinized either. “The university has also said it is seeking to \u2018problematize the term \u2018Viking\u2019\u2019 in its tuition,” the Telegraph reported, noting that “It comes amid concerns over the connections of \u2018race, empire, Nazism” to Norse culture and mythology.\u2019”<\/p>\n

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On Nottingham University\u2019s website,<\/a> there is an extensive page about “Decolonising the curriculum in English Studies” such as work to emphasize “Black communities” and to “problematise nationalist discourses which privilege white, English-speaking citizens in the UK and USA.”<\/p>\n

England itself is named after the medieval Anglo-Saxon people, but their very identity has become a cultural lightning rod in academia. The term “Anglo-Saxon” has more recently been used to describe the cultural origin of America’s settlers, such as when Thomas Jefferson<\/a> wanted the Anglo-Saxon founders of England represented on America’s national seal, arguing they are “from whom we claim the honor of being descended, and whose political principles and form of government we have assumed.” WASP, or White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, still remains a sociological term among Americans to this day.<\/p>\n

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The Telegraph reported that “The move follows a pledge made in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests<\/a> to decolonise the curriculum, a term denoting a move away from Western-centered material and the dominance of \u2018White voices\u2019 in academia.”<\/p>\n

The same source also claimed that “Teaching staff at Nottingham also ensure that module content aims at \u2018undercutting nationalist narratives\u2019 and \u2018essentialist ideas\u2019 about nationality, meaning the belief that English identity is distinct and confers fundamental characteristics.”<\/p>\n

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Nottingham University is one of multiple institutions that are combating the term or very idea of “Anglo-Saxon” peoples<\/a> in order to combat nationalism among ethnically English people around the world.<\/p>\n

In May, Cambridge University Press said it was “delighted”<\/a> to rename a decades-old historical journal “Anglo-Saxon England” as “Early Medieval England and its Neighbours.” Cambridge\u2019s Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic studies has also reportedly worked to “dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism”\u00a0by arguing not only that Anglo-Saxons did not exist as a distinct ethnic group, but that there are no “coherent” Scottish, Irish and Welsh ethnic identities either.<\/p>\n

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Fox News Digital<\/a> reached out to Nottingham University and did not receive an immediate reply.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Alexander Hall is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Alexander.hall@fox.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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