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Infusion Rather than Isolation: Integrating Principles of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Decolonization, and Indigenization in Toolkits for Remote Instruction during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Attas, Robin; Anstey, Lauren; Brant, Lindsay; McRae, Karalyn
To Improve the Academy, v42 n1 Article 4 p86-112 Spr 2023
In the spring of 2020, our Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) developed the Transforming Teaching and Teaching Assistant Toolkits, consisting of inhouse and curated open-access resources on various aspects of remote teaching, along with accompanying webinars. We deliberately infused principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and decolonization and Indigenization across all aspects of the resources for several reasons: our CTL's commitment to these principles as institutional priorities that are the responsibility of all staff, numerous theorists' advocacy to adopt inclusive pedagogies across the curriculum rather than tokenistic "add-and-stir" gestures, and a desire to counter the inequities in education and society at large re-exposed and perpetuated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We share our approach, explore its impact by outlining the toolkits' design and delivery and by analyzing data from a survey of instructors who engaged with the toolkits, and propose some strategies for educational developers engaged in resource development to undertake their own infusion initiatives.
Descriptors: Equal Education, Diversity, Inclusion, Decolonization, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Distance Education, Educational Practices, Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Design, Delivery Systems, Web Sites, Videoconferencing, Faculty Development
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