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The Difference, Power, and Discrimination program and its partners host several workshops and lectures of varying length on a variety of DPD topics throughout each academic year.
Join the Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning for the Winter/Spring 2022 Book Club!
Beginning in winter term, be in community with fellow educators and engage in a discussion of Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education: Equity and Access in the College Classroom (Osei-Kofi, Boovy, & Furman, 2021). All instructors, tenure track, and professional faculty, and graduate teaching assistants welcome!
Participants will read about curriculum transformation from a social justice perspective, reflect on their own teaching practices, discuss inclusive pedagogies with colleagues from across the institution, and share tools and strategies for transforming teaching and learning in higher education. For more information and registration visit the Center for Teaching and Learning website.
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Queer Inclusion in Teacher Education Programs Dr. Olivia Murray |
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How can teacher educators adopt policies and practices to promote LGBTQ advocacy in teacher education? Olivia, author of Queer Inclusion in Teacher Education, will share her Queer Inclusion in Education Framework and synthesize the steps she took to lead her colleagues at Portland State University Graduate School of Education toward these goals. Free and open to the public. |
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January 25, 2017 4:00-5:30 p.m. |
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| Location | Furman Hall 404 |
| Event title | Supporting Muslim Students in the Classroom | |
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Bring your lunch and join us for an informal conversation on Supporting Muslim Students in the Classroom. No RSVP is required. To set the stage for our conversation, you’re encouraged to read "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?" |
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12 to 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 6 |
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| Location | Willamette West Seminar Room, Valley Library |
| Event title | Teaching DPD Courses Online | |
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Bring your lunch and join us for a presentation and discussion on teaching DPD Courses online. Facilitators: Amber Moody and Kristen Andersen. No RSVP is required. To set the stage for the discussion, you’re encouraged to read the following article ahead of time: Don't Hate Me Because I'm Virtual |
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Time Date |
12 to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26 |
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| Location | Memorial Union Room 208 |
| Event title | DPD Lunch: Teaching about Race, Place, and Violence in the United States | |
| Description | Bring your lunch and join us for the final informal monthly conversation of the term focused on teaching DPD courses and content. | |
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| Date | December 11, 2015 |
| Event title | DPD Lunch: Exploring Experiential Learning | |
| Description | This session was held in collaboration with the AAC&U Centennial Dialogue on Inclusive Excellence. | |
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| Date | November 20, 2015 |
| Event title | DPD Lunch: The Trigger Warning Debate: What is at Stake? | |
| Description | Bring your lunch and join us for the first of three informal monthly conversations focused on teaching DPD courses and content. | |
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| Date | October 23, 2015 |
| Event title | Teaching Race, Gender, and Sexuality: Addressing Student Resistance | |
| Speaker | Andrea Smith, Associate Professor, Media & Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside | |
| Description | When professors attempt to teach content that focuses on race, gender, sexuality and other themes that can be politically fraught, they often meet great resistance in the classroom. They are accused of, among other things, engaging in political indoctrination and being “reverse racists.” This workshop will focus on how we can teach content related to these issues while constructively addressing student resistance. Through an exploration of a variety of pedagogical strategies, we will explore how our teaching methods can more closely proximate our teaching content and incur less student resistance as a result. | |
| Date | April 3, 2015 |
| Event title | Class in the Classroom: Creating Equitable Learning Environments for Low-Income Students (cancelled) | |
| Speaker | Paul Gorski, Associate Professor, New Century College, George Mason University | |
| Description | In this workshop we will discuss principles and practices for creating equitable learning environments for low-income college students. We will consider curricular, pedagogical, and other dimensions of teaching and learning as well as strategies for teaching about poverty and class issues effectively. | |
| Date | March 5, 2015 |
| Event title | Teaching at a Land Grant University: A Commitment to Local Knowledges (cancelled) | |
| Speaker | Adela C. Licona, Associate Professor and Director, Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English Program, University of Arizona | |
| Description | This presentation addresses the establishment and the expressed mission and mandates of public universities in the United States through the granting of federal lands in order to more deeply consider their (missed) democratic potentials. We will explore how classrooms in public universities can be spaces to interrogate the productive forces of normative histories and also dehumanizing rhetorics and, together, consider how to insert such narratives into our critical inquiries, curricula, and classroom discussions. In an attempt to animate the practice of “critical localism,” the presentation will draw from works relevant to Oregon’s environmental and human history, that integrate science and the humanities to consider how such works might invite multiple knowledges into a number of classes from those in environmental and social sciences to those teaching rhetoric, poetry, and writing. | |
| Date | December 3, 2014 |
