Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice
Author | : Mary E Kite |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 1433832933 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781433832932 |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This essential resource helps educators tackle common and challenging dilemmas that arise in today's classroom--such as diversity, privilege, and intersectionality. This book examines common issues educators face when teaching social justice and diversity-related courses and offers best practices for addressing them. Contributors discuss the many roles instructors play, inside and outside of college and university classrooms, for example, in handling personal threats, responsibly incorporating current events into classroom discussion, navigating their own stigmatized or privileged identities, dealing with bias in teaching evaluations, and engaging in self-care.