During the 2021-22 academic year, the Inclusive Pedagogies RIG will be reading about and discussing what it means to be an antiracist teacher. At the heart of our year-long focus is a “blogbook” by Asao B. Inoue, What It Means To Be An Antiracist Teacher: Cultivating Antiracist Orientations in the Literacy Classroom. Inoue is a Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University, and the past 2019 CCCC Chair. His research is in antiracist writing assessment and he teaches teachers how to teach and assess writing.
As always, no need to prepare for the reading group! We spend the first 30 minutes reading together, then discussing the text and its implications for our teaching praxis. The Inclusive Pedagogies reading group meets on Friday of Weeks 3 and 7 each term, with alternative meetings on the following Tuesday of Weeks 4 and 8. Friday meeting times are 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and Tuesdays are 4-6 p.m. We will continue meeting in Zoom (meeting ID: 963 7905 3595) while pandemic conditions persist.
We will be discussing the following entries from Inoue’s blogbook:
- Weeks 3-4: Intro to the Project, Antiracism Ain’t Easy, Antiracism as an Orientation
- Weeks 7-8: Twelve Habits of Antiracist Teachers, Brave Classrooms Ain’t Safe Classrooms
Winter 2022
- Weeks 3-4: White Language Supremacy and the Golden Rule, The Habits of White Language
- Weeks 7-8: Racist Discourse as a Field, An Equation for Racist Discourse
Spring 2022
- Weeks 3-4: The White Supremacy of Grades in the Literacy Classroom
- Weeks 7-8: Decolonizing our Languaging
Here’s the recurring link for our IPRIG meetings: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/96379053595?pwd=eEFndkdVRG9TaVdlamhldENCUmRSdz09
All faculty, GEs, tutors, and education support specialists are welcome!