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Resources

Related UBC Offices and Centres | Teaching/Learning Materials | Academic Bibliography | Other Resource Links

Related UBC Offices and Centres

• Office of Access & Diversity
• Centre for Culture, Identity and Education
• Centre for Intercultural Communication
• Centre for Race Autobiography Gender and Age
• Equity Office
• International House
• First Nations House of Learning
• UBC Vancouver Aboriginal Portal

For more information on UBC’s effort to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, please go to the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resource Hub at UBC.

Teaching/Learning Materials

The list below contains some tools and tips for teaching in a diverse classroom environment or teaching about the issues of diversity, equity, and intercultural understanding. What is provided here is not necessarily one-size-fits-all tools or a quick fix for deep-seeded issues of inequality and marginalization in society, including educational settings. You may however use these resources as a springboard to develop your teaching content and render your teaching practices more inclusive and equitable.

• Anti-oppression web tool

  • By Ontario Public Interest Research Group at McMaster University.
  • Information and learning resources about privilege, and how to prevent discrimination through gender, sexual orientation, disability, race, religion, age or class.

• Diversity and complexity in the classroom: Considerations of race, ethnicity, and gender

  • From Davis, B. G. (1993). Tools for Teaching. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Strategies for diversity in the classroom and tactics for overcoming stereotypes and biases.

• Diversity toolkit

  • By University of Calgary
  • Includes web-based diversity resources for BC and Canada

• Handouts on equity, diversity, multicultural education, social justice

  • By EdChange
  • Printable handouts for a variety of different workshops, trainings, and classes.

• Multicultural Pavilion: Diversity, equity, and social justice education resources

  • By Paul C. Gorski, EdChange
  • Resources for a critical approach to multicultural education

• Start talking: A handbook for engaging difficult dialogues in higher education

  • By University of Alaska, Anchorage

• What I learned in class today: Aboriginal issues in the classroom

  • The classroom discussion topics and advice are included.
  • Available online, but the DVD is also available at the UBC Library.

• Race: The power of an illusion

  • The online companion to a three-part documentary video series about race in society, science, and history by Public Broadcasting Service. The videos (VHS) are available at the UBC Library.
  • The website includes teaching plans, discussion guide, and a list of learning resources on race.

Academic Bibliography

There are a wide range of scholarly work on the issues of diversity, equity, and intercultural understanding in educational settings. This bibliography is by no means a complete list, but they may help you start exploring on the issues. Please see the end of this list for more related bibliographies provided by different sources.

Allan, E. & Estler, S. (2005). Diversity, privilege, and us: Collaborative curriculum transformation among educational leadership faculty. Innovative Higher Education, 29(3), 209-232.

Anderson, S.K., MacPhee, D., & Govan, D. (2000). Infusion of multicultural issues in curricula: A student perspective. Innovative Higher Education, 25(1), 37-57.

Bruch, P., Jehangir, R., Lundell, D., Higbee, J., & Miksch, K. (2005). Communicating across differences: Toward a multicultural approach to institutional transformation. Innovative Higher Education, 29(3), 195-208.

Carr, P. R., & Klassen, T. R. (1997). Different perceptions of race in education: Racial minority and white teachers. Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation, 22(1), 67-81.

Ewart-Bauer, T. (2011, January). Emotion, conflict, and culture in the classroom: Part one of two. Bridges , 9(1), 12-14. Permalink

Ewart-Bauer, T. (2011, April). Emotion, conflict, and culture in the classroom: Part two of two. Bridges , 9(3), 13-15. Permalink

Fleras, A., & Elliott, J.L. (2002). Engaging Diversity: Multiculturalism in Canada. Toronto: Nelson Thompson Learning.

Fuller, M., Bradley, B., & Healey, M. (2004). Incorporating disabled students within an inclusive higher education environment. Disability and Society, 19(5), 455-468.

Kumashiro, K. K. (2002). Against repetition: Addressing resistance to anti-oppressive change in the practices of learning, teaching, supervising, and researching. Harvard Educational Review, 72(1), 67–93.

Linse, A., Jacobson, W., & Reddick, L. (2004-2005). Teaching for diversity and inclusiveness in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Toward the Best in the Academy, 16(7). Retrieved from http://www.csub.edu/tlc/options/resources/handouts/fac_dev/Teaching%20for%20Diversity%20and%20Inclusiveness%20in%20Science.htm.

Lyakhovetska, R. (2004). Welcome to Canada?: The experiences of international graduate students at university. In L. Andres (Ed.), Student affairs: Experiencing higher education (pp. 189-216). Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press.

Marker, M. (2004). The four Rs revisited: Some reflections on First Nations and higher education. In L. Andres (Ed.), Student affairs: Experiencing higher education (pp. 171-188). Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press.

Nelson, C.E. (1996). Student diversity requires different approaches to college teaching, even in math and science. The American behavioral scientist, 40(2), 165-175.

Newton, J., Ginsburg, J., Rehner, J., Rogers, P., Sbrizzi, S., & Spencer, J. (Eds.). (2001). Voices from the classroom: Reflections on teaching and learning in higher education. Aurora, Canada: Garamond Press.

Nichols, J.C. (2003). Changing what is taught: Hearing the voices of the underrepresented. Innovative Higher Education. 27(3), 195-208.

Ouellett, M. L. (Ed.). (2005). Teaching inclusively: Resources for course, department and institutional change in higher education. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press.

Shor, I., & Freire, P. (2003). What are the fears and risks of transformation? In A. Darder, M. Baltodano, & R. D. Torres (Eds.), The critical pedagogy reader (pp. 479-496). New York, NY: Routledge Falmer.

Spafford, M. M., Nygaard, V. L., Gregor, F., & Boyd, M. A. (2006). "Navigating the different spaces": Experiences of inclusion and isolation among racially minoritized faculty in Canada. The Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 36(1), 1-27.

More bibliographies

• An annotated bibliography of print resources on multicultural education and diversity issues in higher education

  • http://www.umass.edu/cft/resources/tldc.htm
  • Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

• Ethnic and gender issues in science, technology, engineering, and math courses (an annotated bibliography)

  • http://www.nyu.edu/cte/ethnicgenderbib.html
  • NYU Center for Teaching Excellence

• Selected bibliography: Social justice, diversity, multicultural and antiracism education

  • http://www.ucalgary.ca/dtoolkit/bibliography
  • Diversity Toolkit, University of Calgary
  • Categorized by Canadian, American, and international

Other Resource Links

• Classroom dynamics and diversity

  • Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University.
  • Includes tips for how to handle hot moments in classroom.

• Diversity and inclusive teaching

  • Learning and Teaching Office, Ryerson University

• Diversity and inclusive teaching

  • Vanderbilt University

• Multicultural teaching: Information and strategies

  • Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan

• Webliography

  • Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, UBC