Meeting Facilitators: Dr. Ryuko Kubota and Ashley Moore
In the recommendations from the last meeting of the LLED Antiracist Caucus, there was a strong emphasis on the need for the department to provide more support to course coordinators, developers and instructors in order to implement our commitments to antiracism, decolonization and social justice as described in the new “About Us” description of the department. Building on this emphasis, in this meeting, our goal is to collaboratively develop a self-reflection tool to help those developing syllabi and planning instruction to meaningfully implement those commitments.
Stimulus Texts:
To give you an idea of what kind of tool we’re hoping to create (and possibly find some good ideas for the guidelines themselves), please take five minutes before our May 13 meeting to read this set of 16 guiding questions developed by the Anti-Racist Doctoral Program Student Committee at Pitt School of Social Work (University of Pittsburg) to review syllabi across their doctoral program.
Optional Stimulus Texts
- These suggestions for an antiracist and inclusive syllabus from Brandeis University (5 minutes)
- These recent tweets from Nelson Flores on diversifying a syllabus (1 minute)
- This longer journal article (attached) by Kyoko Kishimoto (2018): Anti-racist pedagogy: From faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom
Link to the Antiracist Self-Reflection Tool: