Center for Teaching & Learning Inclusive Pedagogies

"Inclusive teaching is being responsive to the diversity of our class and designing learning environments that include all of our students."
—from the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with Tracie Addy

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• How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. Ambrose, S., Bridges, M., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M., & Norman, M. (2010).  Wiley. [Recommended: Chapter 3 - What Factors Motivate Students to Learn & Chapter 6 - Why Do Student Development and Course Climate Matter for Student Learning]
• Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction. Saunders, L. & Wong, M. (2020). Windsor & Downs Press. [Recommended: Chapter 5 - Critical Pedagogy: Challenging Bias and Creating Inclusive Classrooms. This chapter connects critical pedagogy with questions we are asking ourselves about bias, microaggressions, and building an inclusive classroom.]
• Pedagogies of Decentering and a Discourse of Failure. Segal, J. (1996). Rhetoric Review, 15(1), 174-191. https://www.jstor.org/stable/465463 [Engagement with de-centering theory and practice incredibly helpful as much for its head-on engagement that our pedagogies don't always work as effectively as we would like as for her skillful parsing and synthesizing of this failure in relation to decentering.]
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire, P., (2018). Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. hooks, b., (1994). Routledge.