Teaching through Challenges for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) [Hardcover]

Colleges and universities cannot ignore the increasingly diverse student population in their classrooms, and how a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion across disciplines trains students in the intercultural awareness they will need in competitive job markets. Yet while faculty may be aware of a need to understand EDI goals in relationship to their disciplines, and institutions may support EDI in theory, the onus of pedagogical training in EDI often falls on individual faculty. This book was written by faculty and administrators for educators who value the goals of EDI, and seek an intellectual community to help them develop their practice. Important to this book is an honest discussion of common challenges faculty may face when they engage in this difficult work, and effective strategies for addressing those challenges. The chapters are grouped according to six different themes: respect for divergent learning styles; inclusion and exclusion; technology and social action; affective considerations; reflection for critical consciousness; and safe spaces and resistance.

Stephanie Burrell Storms, Associate Professor, Multicultural Education, Fairfield University



Sarah K. Donovan, Professor, Philosophy, Wagner College



Theodora P. Williams, Associate Professor Emerita, Human Resource Management, Marygrove College

This volume by Storms (Fairfield Univ.), Donovan (Wagner College), and Williams (Marygrove College) compiles essays from the authors and additional contributors that focus on education leadership and practices for developing a socially just leadership praxis. Understanding the challenges that face individual faculty as they attempt to develop courses in line with the goals of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), the authors have curated an action-oriented collection of writings from a diverse set of education leadership practitioners to help them develop their practice. This volume serves the needs of school leaderl#É