Category: Inclusive Teaching

by Sandy Gambill, Sr. Instructional Developer, Reinert Center It’s hard to open a newspaper this fall without coming across an article about trigger warnings or safe spaces on college campuses. Perhaps the most well-known set of readings is from the University of Chicago, where the dean of students, students, and faculty have all weighed in.… Continue reading Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces: What Do You Do?

by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center When developing this year’s theme of Inclusive Teaching, Reinert Center staff and advisory board members considered this question: Who are we excluding in our courses? Even without being aware of it, our courses may create unnecessary obstacles to learning for some or many of our students. For instance, my… Continue reading Who Are You Excluding? Seeing the Diversity in Your Classroom

by James Fortney, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center Intersectionality, a term coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989), “provides a critical lens to interrogate racial, ethnic, class, physical ability, age, sexuality, and gender disparities and to contest existing ways of looking at these structures of inequality” (Dill & Zambrana, 2009, p.1). A recent edited volume by… Continue reading Intersectionality in Action

by Gina Merys, Associate Director, Reinert Center Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that combines education with critical theory. First described by Paulo Freire, it has since been developed by others as an approach to inclusive teaching practices. Critical pedagogue Ira Shor defines critical pedagogy as: "Habits of thought, reading, writing,… Continue reading Ignatian Pedagogy as Critical Pedagogy

by James Fortney, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center One of my early teaching mentors encouraged me to prioritize difference during the first class of the semester. “But, how?” I asked, with a heavy feeling of accountability. She told me I needed to reflect on my goals for the course and their relationship to matters of difference… Continue reading Acknowledging Difference on the First Day

by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center Each year, the Reinert Center chooses a theme of broad interest to SLU educators, around which we focus programs and resources. This year, our theme is Inclusive Teaching. In what follows, I offer a few thoughts to orient you to the theme and provide a brief overview of how… Continue reading Inclusive Teaching: Reflections on the Reinert Center’s 2016-2017 Theme