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Book Synopsis
This essential resourcehelpseducators tackle the most common and challenging dilemmasthat ariseintoday’sclassroom—such as diversity, privilege, and intersectionality.
This bookexamines common challenges that arise foreducators teachingsocial justice and diversity-related courses and offers best practicesforaddressingthem. Contributorscoverissues such as the many roles instructors play, inside and outsideof college and universityclassrooms, for example, inhandling personal threats, responsibly incorporating current events related to social justice into classroom discussion, navigating one''s own stigmatizedor privilegedidentities, dealing with bias in teaching evaluations, and engaging in self-care.
Theauthors'' backgrounds offer unique perspectives from whichtoapproachsuch complexsubject matter; several contributors arefeministorintersectional scholarswiththe experience and expertise to address the pedagogical dilemmas that often arise in
Table of Contents
Preface
Faye Crosby
1: Pedagogical Humility and Peer Mentoring for Social Justice Education
Kim A. Case, Mary E. Kite, and Wendy R. Williams
2: Ground Rules for Discussing Diversity: Complex Considerations
Susan B. Goldstein
3: Social Justice Burnout: Engaging in Self-Care While Doing Diversity Work
Asia Eaton and Leah R. Warner
4: Mistakes Were Made by Me: Recovering When an Instructor’s Error Affects Classroom Dynamics
Mary E. Kite, Samuel M. Colbert, and Scott M. Barrera
5: When the Professor Experiences Stereotype Threat in the Classroom
Desdamona Rios, Kim A. Case, Salena M. Brody and David P. Rivera
6: Becoming a Target: Anonymous Threats While Teaching Diversity Courses or Working on Social Justice Issues
Lisa S. Wagner and J. J. Garrett-Walker
7: Inclusion–Exclusion: Balancing Viewpoint Diversity and Harmful Speech in the Multicultural Classroom
Salena M. Brody and Darren R. Bernal
8: The Efficacy Paradox: Teaching About Structural Inequality While Keeping Students’ Hope Alive
Lisa M. Brown
9: Emotionally Charged News in the Classroom
Ryan M. Pickering
10: Raising the Consciousness of Students Holding Ingroup Stereotypes
Lisa M. Brown and Wendy R. Williams
11: White Privilege in the Classroom
Leah R. Warner, Lisa S. Wagner, and Patrick R. Grzanka
12: Navigating Difficult Moments Outside the Classroom
Wendy R. Williams and F. Tyler Sergent
13: Contemporary Issues in Terminology: Using Gender-Inclusive Language to Create Affirming Spaces
Amanda J. Wyrick
14: Aging as an Element of Diversity: Best Practices for Challenging Classroom Conversations and Avoiding Ageism
Lisa S. Wagner, Tana M. Luger and Matthew Calamia
15: Outsiders Teaching Insiders: How Instructors From Privileged Groups Can Effectively Teach About Diversity
Susan B. Goldstein
16: When Students Frame Prejudicial Speech as “Freedom of Speech”: Classroom and Institutional Implications
Leah R. Warner
17: Student Evaluations of Teaching: Can Teaching Social Justice Negatively Affect One’s Career?
Guy A. Boysen
18: Flotsam and Jetsam: Staying the Course While Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice
Wendy R. Williams, Mary E. Kite, and Kim A. Case
