Introduction to the Faculty Resource Guide: Integrating Social Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Issues in STEMM courses
Author(s): Pat Marsteller1, Eliza Reilly2
1. Emory University, BioQUEST 2. SENCER
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Description
As part of the open education resource on Social Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we are creating a resource guide for faculty that summarizes the current literature on how to prepare to teach controversial DEI and Social Justice issues. The group (Kristen Butela, Jen Bunz, Shuchismita Dutta, Melissa Haswell, Sharon Homer Drummond, Pat Marsteller, Melanie Lanahan, Heather Rissler) has been meeting biweekly in Fall 2023 to gather materials and begin the process. The faculty resource guide assembled by this group will be available as an OER and will contain materials that faculty need to think about as they consider SJEDI for classes, such as:
- Glossary of terms that relate to SJEDI
- A Toolkit that includes:
- Self-work Centering your identity: Historical understanding of system issues - racism, patriarchal and white-centered education system (decolonization);
- Identifying student needs and aspirations
- Syllabi statements
- Setting learning outcomes for SJEDI
- Inclusive teaching strategies
- Class rules and compacts for discussion
- Tools for teaching difficult and potentially controversial topics
- Case studies and examples of how we or others have used the resources for self-reflection, identifying student needs and goals, and examples from syllabi.
The full open education resource will include background information on key social justice and diversity equity and inclusion topics, collections of annotated existing resources across all disciplines and invitations to work on new resources.
Cite this work
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
- Marsteller, P., Reilly, E. J. (2024). Introduction to the Faculty Resource Guide: Integrating Social Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Issues in STEMM courses. Pathways for Accelerating Change in Social Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Curricula, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/QBGJ-X440