Teaching Diversity and Inclusion

<p>Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French-Speaking Classroom explores new and pioneering strategies for transforming current teaching practices into equitable, inclusive and immersive classrooms for all students. This cutting-edge volume dares to ask new questions, and shares innovative, concrete tools useful to a wide variety of classrooms and institutional contexts, far beyond any disciplinary borders.</p><p>This book aims to instill classroom approaches which allow every student to feel safe to share their truth and to reflect deeply about their own identity and challenges, discussing course design, assignments, technologies, activities, and strategies that target diversity and inclusion in the French classroom. Each chapter shares why and how to design an inclusive community of learners, including opportunities to promote interdisciplinary approaches and cross-disciplinary collaborations, exploring cultures and underrepresented perspectives, and distinguishing unconscious biases. The essays also provide theoretical and practical strategies adaptable to any reflective teacher desiring to create a welcoming, inclusive classroom that draws in students they might not otherwise attract. </p><p>This long overdue work will be ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students and administrators seeking fresh approaches to diversity in the classroom. </p> <p>Introduction</p><p>E. Nicole Meyer and Eilene Hoft-March</p><p>Section 1: Unscripting and Claiming Identities</p><p>Chapter 1: Queer Pedagogy for a Queer(er) Francophone Classroom </p><p>CJ Gomolka </p><p>Chapter 2: A Starter Kit for Rethinking Trans Representation and Inclusion in French L2 Classrooms</p><p>Kris Aric Knisely </p><p>Chapter 3: Disability Studies and the French Classroom: Toward a ‘Democracy of Proximity’</p><p>Tammy Berberi</p><p>Chapter 4: Why We Need to Talk about Race: Improving Racial Inclusivity in the French Language Classroom</p><p>Kate Nelson</p><p>Section 2: Inclusively Speaking</p><p>Chapter 5: Inclusive Language Pedagogy for (Un)Teaching Gender in French</p><p>Kiki Kosnick</p><p>Chapter 6: How Can We Teach French Inclusively? Challenges and Resistance</p><p>Dominique Carlini Versini</p><p>Chapter 7: A Classroom for Everyone: Creating French Courses that Embrace Learning Differences</p><p>Kathryn A. Dettmer and Brenda A. Dyer </p><p>Chapter 8: Diversifying the Curriculum: From Structural Changes to Classroom Lessons</p><p>Jessica S. Miller</p><p>Chapter 9: Embracing the Francophone World across the French Curriculum</p><p>Stephanie Schechner</p><p>Chapter 10: Unlearning the Language of Divisiveness</p><p>Eilene Hoft-March</p><p>Section 3: Embracing Cultures/Extending Contexts</p><p>Chapter 11: Strategies for Teaching Diversity and Inclusion in Introductory Literature Courses</p><p>Dominique Licops</p><p>Chapter 12: The Making of the Other Americas: Discovering the Francospheres of Latin America</p><p>Lowry Martin</p><p>Chapter 13: Connecting French Studies to the World through Global Foodways</p><p>Lauren Ravalico</p><p>Chapter 14: Lessons in Diversity from the Street: A Course on Hip-hop Cultures</p><p>Kathryn St. Ours</p><p>Chapter 15: "We are all Negroes": Teaching Tolerance from a Haitian Literary Perspective</p><p>Lovia Mondésir</p><p>Chapter 16: Introducing Diversity into the Graduate Classroom: Teaching Jewish Francophone Writers</p><p>Nancy M. Arenberg</p><p>Chapter 17: Promoting Mutual Understanding and Inclusion in the French Classroom through French, Israeli, and Polish Post-Holocaust Life Writing</p><p>E. Nicole Meyer</p><p>Appendix: Essential Reads</p>