{"id":1127,"date":"2021-07-28T21:59:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T21:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-serie-center\/?page_id=1127"},"modified":"2025-12-26T16:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:06:45","slug":"toward-equitable-and-inclusive-teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/serie-center\/toward-equitable-and-inclusive-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward Equitable and Inclusive Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are committed to supporting and increasing faculty capacity related to equitable and inclusive pedagogy. In order to be truly inclusive, our curricular and pedagogical strategies must be grounded in equity and social justice. In her post on designing inclusive classes<\/a>, Maha Bali suggests that a critical \u201cfirst step is to think about our curriculum from a social justice perspective and recognize that we are not neutral. If we do not make intentional efforts to make content and pedagogical choices that promote equity and amplify the cultures of marginalized groups, our courses are likely to NOT be inclusive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Center for Educational Innovation at the University of Minnesota’s Inclusive Teaching at a Predominantly White Institution<\/span><\/a> guide offers excellent resources as well as critical perspective about the racialized dynamics related to teaching and learning at predominantly white institutions. Learning to be Human Together: Humanizing Learning<\/a> is an open source book project published in 2022 that explores “the importance of, and processes for, humanizing education.” The book starts “by exploring what humanizing teaching and learning means: to acknowledge that our relationships are foundational to the work that we do. It aims to make learning inclusive with connection, access, and meaning-making at its core.” Another excellent resource, by Professors Isis Artze-Vega, Flower Darby, Bryan Dewsbury, and Mays Imad (2023), is the Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching<\/a> (available as a free download).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy write extensively about <\/span>inclusive teaching strategies<\/span><\/a> and suggest that \u201cOne way in which you can immediately foster inclusive teaching is to ask, listen, and learn from your own students.\u201d The Classroom Community & Connectedness<\/a> project, piloted at Macalester during the 2021-2022 year as a collaboration between the Associate Director of the Serie Center and colleagues from Institutional Research & Assessment, was designed to learn – from students’ perspectives – about what helps build a sense of connection and belonging in our classrooms.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collaborative note taking<\/span><\/a> is an effective inclusive teaching strategy that engages students in a collective process of accountability for their learning and for mutual access. In her recent essay, Amy Mulnix elaborates on four <\/span>pedagogical strategies for moving from inclusion to equity<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n