Category Archives: Meetings

Reading group to discuss classrooms as “brave spaces” April 21 & 25

What: “From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces: A New Way to Frame Dialogue Around Diversity and Social Justice,” by Brian Arao and Kristi Clemens (from The Art of Effective Facilitation, 2013)

When: Friday, April 21, 11am–1pm and Tuesday, April 25, 4–6pm – pick the meeting time that works best for you!

Where: CSWS Jane Grant room, 330 Hendricks Hall, 1408 University Street, Eugene.

How: We read together for the first 30 minutes, then discuss our responses and practice—no homework required!

Article: from-safe-spaces-to-brave-spaces / paper copies also provided during meetings

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Inclusive Pedagogies RIG to discuss rhetorical listening Jan. 27 & 31

CORRECTED DATES – All members of the UO community are invited to participate in the Inclusive Pedagogies Research Interest Group (IPRIG). The group meets twice per term to read together and discuss current pedagogy and research in support of student learners from diverse backgrounds.

On Friday, Jan. 27, and Tuesday, Jan. 31, the IPRIG will be reading together and discussing “Enacting Rhetorical Listening: A Process to Support Students’ Engagement with Challenging Course Readings,” by Jessica Rivera-Mueller (Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, vol. 4, no. 2, Fall 2020). Print copies will be provided to attendees who RSVP to RIG co-coordinator Jenée Wilde.

No homework is required to participate. At each meeting, the group spends 30 minutes reading a selection of recent research related to pedagogy and the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, ability, and other aspects of identity. The remainder of the meeting focuses on reading discussion and time to share thoughts and experiences related to inclusive, antiracist practices in our classrooms.

The IPRIG meets in the CSWS Jane Grant Room (Hendricks 330) 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.

The Inclusive Pedagogies Research Interest Group is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society. Co-coordinators are Jenée Wilde, senior instructor of English, and Mark Van Ryzin, research associate professor of human development. For more information, contact Wilde at jenee@uoregon.edu.

For more information about starting or participating in CSWS RIGs, click on this link.

What does it mean to be an antiracist teacher?

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:

Winter 2022

Spring 2022

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!

Reading Group to discuss “Relating Our Experiences: The Practice of Positionality Stories in Student-Centered Pedagogy” May 14 & 18

Inclusive Pedagogies will be holding our second Zoom reading group meetings of Spring term as follows:
  • Friday, May 14, 11am-1pm
  • Tuesday, May 18, 4-6pm
For these meetings, we will be discussing “Relating Our Experiences: The Practice of Positionality Stories in Student-Centered Pedagogy,” by Christina V. Cedillo and Phil Bratta (College Composition and Communication 71:2 [2019], 215-240).
 
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.
Here’s the recurring link for our IPRIG meetings:
Join Zoom Meeting

Reading Group to discuss “Should Writers Use They Own English” April 16 & 20

Inclusive Pedagogies will be holding our first Zoom reading group meetings of Spring term as follows:
  • Friday, April 16, 11am-1pm
  • Tuesday, April 20, 4-6pm
For these meetings, we will be discussing “Should Writers Use They Own English,” by Vershawn Ashanti Young (Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 2010, pp. 110-118). Young was a keynote speaker at this year’s virtual CCCC conference, held last weekend. BONUS: Three of our IPRIG members attended and presented at the conference and can talk about what we learned, as well.
 
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.
Here’s the recurring link for our IPRIG meetings:
Join Zoom Meeting

Reading group to discuss “The myth of the colorblind writing classroom” Feb. 19 & 23

Inclusive Pedagogies will be holding our second Zoom reading group meetings of Winter term as follows:
  • Friday, Feb.19, 11am-1pm
  • Tuesday, Feb. 23, 4-6pm
For these meetings, we will be discussing “The Myth of the Colorblind Writing Classroom: White Instructors Confront White Privilege in Their Classrooms,” by Octavio Pimentel, Charise Pimentel, and John Dean, in Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication, edited by Frankie Condon and Vershawn Ashanti Young (University Press of Colorado, 2017).
 
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.
Here’s the recurring link for our IPRIG meetings:
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 963 7905 3595

Passcode: 661274

Reading group to discuss Kumashiro’s “Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Anti-Opressive Pedagogy”

Inclusive Pedagogies will be holding our second Zoom reading group meetings of the term as follows:
  • Friday, Nov. 13, 11am-1pm
  • Tuesday, Nov. 17, 4-6pm
For these meetings, we will be discussing selections from Chapter 2 of Kevin Kumashiro’s book Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Anti-Opressive Pedagogy (Routledge 2002). This is one of the texts featured in the upcoming UO Teach-IN, rescheduled for Feb. 27, 2021.
 
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.
For the Zoom meeting link and PDF of the reading, please email jenee@uoregon.edu.