LibGuides: Building Inclusion Collaborative Resource Guide: Inclusive Curricula Resources

Websites

This is Signified SIGNIFIED is a web-based documentary series featuring the work of queer artists and activists. The series highlights alternative narratives of artistic creation, community organizing, gender re-imaginings and the transforming of State mechanisms that police queer bodies and communities.
Confronting Trans Antagonism: A Digital Toolkit Amidst the ongoing precarity, violence, and death experienced globally by trans people, we’ve witnessed a debate emerge from within the academy regarding the intellectual and pedagogical importance of ignoring trans people’s pronouns. This toolkit seeks to intervene in the debate and provide tools for change.
Creating Inclusive College Classrooms Information and guidance on creating inclusive classrooms from the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT).
Increasing Inclusivity in the Classroom Information from the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching.
Global Social Theory Reading Lists There is a lot of talk about ‘decolonising the university’ at the moment. One part of this is thinking about the ways in which we teach, how we design our modules and courses, and who is on our reading lists. On this site you will find a range of examples of module outlines and reading lists that have been shared by generous scholars from a range of countries and disciplines.

Films on Kanopy

Race: The Floating Signifier
Arguing against the biological interpretation of racial difference, Stuart Hall asks us to pay close attention to the cultural processes by which the visible differences of appearance come to stand for natural or biological properties of human beings. Drawing upon the work of writers such as Frantz Fanon, he shows how race is a "discursive construct" and, because its meaning is never fixed, can be described as a "floating signifier."
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The resources on this page are meant to assist with creating inclusive curricula and learning environments. Scroll down to view the resources organized by content type.

Articles

DiAngelo, R., & Sensoy, O. (2014). Calling in: Ways of speaking, thinking, seeing: Cultivating humility, curiosity, and vision in service of anti-racist practice. Journal of Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, 4(2), 190–203. Find in a local library. Read online here.

Lerner, J. & Fulambarker, A. (2017). Beyond Diversity and Inclusion: Creating a Social Justice Agenda in the Classroom. Journal of Teaching in Social Work. 38 (1): 43-53. Find in a local library. Fielding library users can access this work by searching for the title in Taylor & Francis.

Lincoln, Yvonna S., and Elsa M. González y González. “The Search for Emerging Decolonizing Methodologies in Qualitative Research: Further Strategies for Liberatory and Democratic Inquiry.” Qualitative Inquiry 14, no. 5 (2008): 784–805. Find in a local library. Read online here.

Lintott, S. & Skitolsky, L. (2016). Inclusive Pedagogy: Beyond Simple Content. Hypatia 31(2): 447-459. Read online here.

Parker, P., Holland, D., Jennison, J., Smith, S. H., & Jackson, M. ( 2017). Decolonzing the Academy: Lessons From the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Qualitative Inquiry 10-14. Find in a local library. Fielding users may access this work by searching for the title in the SAGE database.

Zavala, M. (2013). What do we mean by decolonizing research strategies? Lessons from decolonizing, Indigenous research projects in New Zealand and Latin America. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society 2 (1): 55-71. Read online here.

Books

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
ISBN: 9781848139503
Publication Date: 2012-05-10
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Ethical Futures in Qualitative Research by Norman K. Denzin (Editor); Michael D. Giardina (Editor)
ISBN: 9781598741414
Publication Date: 2007-05-15
Ethics has been a perennial concern of qualitative researchers. The subject has been confounded with the emergence of human subjects regulations, the increased concern with indigenous communities, the globalization of research practices, and the breakdown of barriers between researcher and subject. The original contributions to this volume highlight the key topics that face contemporary qualitative researchers and those that will likely emerge in the near future.
Feminist Epistemologies by Linda Alcoff (Editor, Introduction by); Elizabeth Gray Potter (Editor, Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780415904513
Publication Date: 1992-12-21
Feminist Epistemologies brings together original essays exploring the intersections of gender and knowledge. The contributors are concerned with many of the problems of traditional epistemology including the nature of knowledge, justification, and objectivity. But they are skeptical that the gender of knowers can ever be considered irrelevant. Their essays probe the difference gender makes by reframing old questions and looking through a feminist lens at such new questions as: Who is the subject of knowledge? How does the social position of the knower affect the production of knowledge? And what is the connection between knowledge and politics?
Feminist Measures in Survey Research by Catherine E. Harnois
ISBN: 9781412988353
Publication Date: 2012-01-18
This book offers a new approach for doing quantitative feminist research, demonstrating how a feminist perspective can inform virtually every aspect of the research process, from survey design, to statistical modeling, to the theoretical frameworks used to interpret results. Catherine E. Harnois makes feminist theory, particularly multiracial feminist theory, accessible and relevant to survey researchers. She assists students and researchers in incorporating these theories into survey design and analysis and shows how they this can offer substantive insights into the social world that have been underutilized to date by survey researchers.
Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers by Joey Sprague
ISBN: 9781442218727
Publication Date: 2016-03-17
The second edition features the latest critical scholarship and fresh examples, while providing an excellent overview of both quantitative and qualitative methods. Showing the links between methodology and epistemology, the book highlights the power of research to make a difference and offers practical suggestions for researchers across disciplines.
Indigenous Statistics by Maggie Walter; Chris Andersen
ISBN: 9781611322934
Publication Date: 2013-09-15
In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers. This book dismantles that persistent positivism with a forceful critique, then fills the void with a new paradigm for Indigenous quantitative methods, using concrete examples of research projects from First World Indigenous peoples in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Concise and accessible, it is an ideal supplementary text as well as a core component of the methodological toolkit for anyone conducting Indigenous research or using Indigenous population statistics.
Integrating Multiculturalism and Intersectionality into the Psychology Curriculum by Jasmine A. Mena; Kathryn Quina
ISBN: 9781433830075
Publication Date: 2019-04-01
Multicultural and intersectional aspects of identity are crucial components of human psychology. Yet, properly teaching and accounting for these factors in psychology courses can be a challenge. This comprehensive book provides instructors with practical guidance for incorporating multicultural perspectives into their courses and creating more welcoming and inclusive classrooms. The contributors are experienced instructors of graduate and undergraduate courses who describe effective teaching strategies, activities, and assignments that encourage students to contribute their viewpoints, learn from each other, challenge their own biases, and expand their worldviews.
The Intersectional Approach by Michele Tracy Berger (Editor); Kathleen Guidroz (Editor)
ISBN: 9780807859810
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Taking stock of this transformative paradigm, The Intersectional Approach guides new and established researchers to engage in a critical reflection about the broad adoption of intersectionality that constitutes what the editors call a new "social literacy" for scholars.
On Being Included by Sara Ahmed
ISBN: 9780822352365
Publication Date: 2012-03-28
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as resistant to their work, as captured through their use of the metaphor of the "brick wall." On Being Included offers an explanation of this apparent paradox. It explores the gap between symbolic commitments to diversity and the experience of those who embody diversity. Commitments to diversity are understood as "non-performatives" that do not bring about what they name. The book provides an account of institutional whiteness and shows how racism can be obscured by the institutionalization of diversity
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development by Wendy Harcourt (Editor)
ISBN: 9781137382726
Publication Date: 2016-01-06
With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field. It reveals the diverse ways that feminist theory and practice inform and shape gender analysis and development policies, bridging generations of feminists from different institutions, disciplines and regions. This work is available to Fielding Library users in the 'Credo Reference' database.
Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality by Lynn Weber
ISBN: 9780195380248
Publication Date: 2009-08-27
Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: A Conceptual Framework, Second Edition, is the only text that develops a theoretical framework for the analysis of intersectionality. Weber argues that these social systems are historically and geographically contextual power relationships that are simultaneously expressed and experienced at both the macro level of social institutions and the micro level of individual lives and small groups. This is also the only text that teaches students how to apply the theory to their own analyses.

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