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Anti-Racist Pedagogy - Resources for Inclusive Teaching

A collection of resources designed to empower educators from all disciplines in their journey towards fostering an inclusive and antiracist classroom environment.

Inclusive Online Spaces

Open Access Resources

Pedagogical Approaches

How to Create Anti-racist Virtual Classrooms: Strategies for Teachers and Families

A webinar from PittEd Justice Collective

Hybrid Pedagogy: The Journal of Critical Digital Pedagogy

An open-access, peer-reviewed journal that "combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses for technology and new media in education"

Making Digital Writing Assessment Fair for Diverse Writers - Computers and Composition Digital Press

See the section on "Fairness and Digital Writing Assessment."

Inclusive Teaching and Learning Online - Columbia CTL

Defines the main principles for establishing an inclusive online classroom.

Asynchronous Strategies for Inclusive Teaching - Brown

Assignments and Lesson Plans

Resources for Online Courses - University of Michigan

Provides many examples of in-class activities that can be adapted for an online setting..

Podcasts

Race, Identity, & Power in Our Online/Offline Spaces

A podcast episode from Unseen Unknown with Jasmine Bina

Journal Articles

Buchanan, J., Wilson, S., & Gopal, N. (2008). A cross cultural virtual learning environment for students to explore the issue of racism: A case study involving the UK, USA and SA. Social Work Education, 27(6), 671-682. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615470802201804

Eschmann, R. (2019). Unmasking racism: Students of color and expressions of racism in online spaces. Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spz026

Heitner, K. L., & Jennings, M. (2016). Culturally responsive teaching knowledge and practices of online faculty. Online Learning, 20(4). https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v20i4.1043

Lauzon, A. C. (2000). Distance education and diversity: Are they compatible? American Journal of Distance Education, 14(2), 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/08923640009527055

Martin, J. N., & Cheong, P. H. (2012). Cultural considerations of online pedagogy. In Computer-Mediated Communication across Cultures (pp. 283-311). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-833-0.ch019

Mehta, R., & Aguilera, E. (2020). A critical approach to humanizing pedagogies in online teaching and learning. International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 37(3), 109-120. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJILT-10-2019-0099

Migueliz Valcarlos, M., Wolgemuth, J. R., Haraf, S., & Fisk, N. (2020). Anti-oppressive pedagogies in online learning: a critical review. Distance Education, 41(3), 345-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1763783

Montelongo, R., & Eaton, P. W. (2020). Online learning for social justice and inclusion. The International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 37(1-2), 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJILT-11-2018-0135

Ortega, A., Andruczyk, M., & Marquart, M. (2018). Addressing microaggressions and acts of oppression within online classrooms by utilizing principles of transformative learning and liberatory education. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 27(1), 28-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313204.2017.1417945

Shlossberg, P., & Cunningham, C. (2016). Diversity, instructional research, and online education. Communication Education65(2), 229–232. https://doi.org/10.1080/0/03634523.2015.1098713

Stewart, N. D., & Goddard, Y. (2023). Discussion boards as a pedagogical tool engendering critical race conversations: Meeting anti-racist aims to raise consciousness and disrupt whiteness. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100426

Woodford, E. (2022). A path to decolonizing the online classroom. Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.15760/nwjte.2022.17.1.4

Woodley, X., Hernandez, C., Parra, J., & Negash, B. (2017). Celebrating difference: Best practices in culturally responsive teaching online. TechTrends, 61(5), 470-478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-017-0207-z

Zipf, S. T. (2023). Anonymity and grading fairness in online education. American Journal of Distance Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/08923647.2023.2174745