Teaching and Learning for Social Justice and Equity in Higher Education: Content Areas

by C. Casey Ozaki (Editor), Laura Parson (Editor)

Overview

This book explores theory and best practices to improve teaching and learning to promote equity in the classroom in specific disciplinary areas including STEM, healthcare, and the humanities. Each chapter includes actionable pedagogical or curricular recommendations such as course assignments and lesson plans. This is the second of four edited volumes focusing on applications of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) for more equitable learning opportunities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030699475
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	04/21/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

C. Casey Ozaki (she/her/hers) is Associate Professor and Chair for the Department of Education, Health, and Behavior Studies at the University of North Dakota, USA. Her research bisects both the student affairs and teaching and learning areas of the college campus, with a shared focus on diverse students, their outcomes, and factors that influence those outcomes. As part of this focus, she has explored the role of student affairs professionals at community colleges.

Laura Parson (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of Educational and Organizational Leadership at North Dakota State University, USA. Her research questions seek to understand how policy, discourses, practices, and procedures inform the experiences of minoritized groups in higher education, and how the institution coordinates those factors through translocal practices. She is a qualitative methodologist, with a focus on ethnographic and discourse methods of inquiry.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Courageous Conversations about Race in an Online Education Course.- 3. Promoting a Social Justice Orientation Among Students of Color in Psychology.- 4. Ecological Writing Processes to Promote Environmental and Social Consciousnesses.- 5. Incorporating culturally relevant education (CRE) in STEM gateway courses.- 6. Teaching Social Justice Through Project-Based Learning in Engineering.- 7. Social Justice and Physics Education.- 8. A Critical Feminist Approach for Equity and Inclusion in Undergraduate Biology Education.- 9. Teaching Race and Racism in Social Work Education.- 10. Teaching and Learning for LGBTQ Justice: An Examination of a Professional Learning Series for Faculty Development in Health and Helping Fields.- 11. Problematize, Theorize, Politicize, and Contextualize:  A Social Justice Framework for Postsecondary Integrated Reading and Writing Instruction.- 12. What is My Educational Experience? The Use of Autoethnography as an Instructional Tool in an Online Introduction to Educational Leadership Course.- 13. Narratives of Bystanding and Upstanding: Applying a Bystander Framework in Higher Education.- 14. Incorporating Antiracist Education Using Aspects of Asian American Studies to Teach about Race and Discrimination.- 15. Open Educational Resources as Tools to Foster Equity.- 16. The Role of Power and Oppression in the Classroom: Actualizing the Potential of Intersectionality in Teaching and Learning.- 17. Conclusion.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"In times of crisis, it can be easy for educators to begin to feel that it’s nearly impossible to make much of a difference. But this need not be the case. We can be inclusive in ways that improve the lives of learners and lead them to seek to improve the lives of others in turn. This volume has a clear focus on how through teaching and learning theory and practice, educators can promote social justice and equity. This text will be an invaluable reader for educators who recognize not only the necessity of but also the possibility and hope for change."

—Claire Major, Professor, Higher Education Administration, University of Alabama, USA