I Just Treat everyone the same

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I Just treat everyone the same:

Moving from Equality to equity in teaching

Dr. David S. Owen

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of

Diversity Programs for the College of Arts and Sciences dsowen04@louisville.edu

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Introductions

• Introductions

What do you hope to learn today?

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Agenda

• 1. The meaning of inclusive teaching

• 2. Three principles of inclusive teaching

• 3. Practicing inclusive teaching

• 4. Closing questions

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What we are talking about

• 1. INCLUSIVE TEACHING is about

• valuing the fact that our students are truly different in many ways

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What we are talking about

• 1. INCLUSIVE TEACHING is about

• valuing the fact that our students are truly different in many ways;

• and (more importantly)

• taking into account the meanings those differences have for our students ’ lives.

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Basic principles of inclusive teaching

• Principle 1 : We need to move from equality to equity.

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Basic principles of inclusive teaching

• Principle 1 : We need to move from equality to equity

• Equality – treating everyone the same

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Basic principles of inclusive teaching

• Principle 1 : We need to move from equality to equity

• Equality – treating everyone the same

• Equity – treating everyone fairly in light of background conditions that generate differing sets of advantages and obstacles for individuals

• This requires:

• being able to identify the structures of advantage and disadvantage that are generated by the sociocultural background.

• adjusting my pedagogy to correct for these imbalances of advantage and disadvantage.

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Basic principles of inclusive teaching

• Principle 2 :

• Our intersecting social identities locates each of us, as teachers, within that background sociocultural landscape;

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Basic principles of inclusive teaching

• Principle 2 :

• Our intersecting social identities locates each of us in the social landscape;

• with the consequence that we have different advantages or disadvantages based upon our social identities

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Basic principles of inclusive teaching

• Principle 2 :

• Our intersecting social identities locates each of us in the social landscape;

• with the consequence that we each possess a different set of advantages or disadvantages.

• Thus, instructors need to be aware of how social identities-and their associated advantages and disadvantages--shape our classrooms and our teaching.

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Basic principles of inclusive teaching

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Basic principles of inclusive teaching

• Principle 3 : Understand how stereotyping inevitably shapes the learning environment.

• Implicit Bias research

• Banaji and Greenwald, Blindspot (2013)

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Basic principles of inclusive teaching

• Principle 3 : Understand how stereotyping inevitably shapes the learning environment.

• Implicit Bias research

• Banaji and Greenwald, Blindspot (2013)

• Stereotype Threat

• Steele, Whistling Vivaldi (2011)

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How does this apply in practice?

• Teaching Practice

• Do you vary instructional modes? (lecture, discussion, group work, etc.)

• Do you pay attention to how power flows in the classroom?

• Do you consciously seek to disrupt the reproduction of what counts as “ normal ” or “ different ” ?

• Do you teach only from the dominant perspective (the “ canon ” )?

• Do you avoid “ tokenism ” that marginalizes social identities that are outside of the dominant identities?

• Do you actively challenge stereotypes in both the curricular content and in your teaching practice?

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How does this apply in practice?

• Course Design

• Do you use a variety of instructional materials (texts, films, popular culture)?

• Is your course content representative of diverse perspectives, especially those that have been systematically marginalized?

• Do you utilize a variety of assessment tools to allow students with different strengths to excel?

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How does this apply in practice?

• Instructional Materials

• Do you vary the types of materials?

• Do you use materials that challenge the bias and privilege found in many curricula?

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Further questions

• What questions do you have?

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Resources

• www.crlt.umich.ed

u -- The Center for Research on

Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan.

• ProjectImplicit.org

• ReducingStereotypeThreat.org

Blindspot

Whistling Vivaldi

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