Butler Faculty Development
Summer Workshop 2011
Teaching Multiculturally
"Education...should cultivate the factual and imaginative
prerequisites for recognizing humanity in the stranger and the
other...(I)gnorance and distance cramp the consciousness."
Martha C. Nussbaum, For Love of Country: Debating the
Limits of Patriotism
Students and faculty enter the classroom with backgrounds and
experiences that are influenced by their social identities,
including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion,
socioeconomic class, and ability. But just how do faculty and
student identities affect learning in the classroom? And how
can these various backgrounds and experiences help enhance the
learning process? This summer workshop offers faculty an
opportunity to engage in substantive conversation with colleagues
about teaching, with a specific focus on teaching multiculturally.
As we welcome students from Shortridge Magnet High School for
Law and Public Policy into our academic community in Fall 2011,
this workshop invites all tenure-line and full-time continuing
appointment faculty to come together to consider how we can best
teach and learn in our increasingly global and diverse world.
- What do our students need to know in order to succeed in a
culturally diverse world?
- What do we need to do to be and continue to be culturally
competent teachers?
- What are we already doing well to prepare our students for
living in a culturally diverse world?
- What can we do better to enhance our own pedagogy?
- What do we believe it means to "teach well" in diverse
classrooms?
- What do we need to do individually and institutionally to teach
multi-culturally?
- What can we contribute to resources on multicultural
teaching?
Schedule: May 16 and 17 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
May 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The first day will allow faculty to participate in a full-day
workshop led by Dr. Tim Wise and Dr. David Stovall, exploring what
it means to be teachers who are multi-culturally competent and
attuned to students' diversity of backgrounds and
experiences. The second day will include focused discussion
among participants about their own teaching at Butler, with time to
work on specific courses, assignments, projects, or in-class
exercises that reflect multicultural competence. The workshop
concludes with continuing conversations and presentations of
individual work on courses, assignments, projects, or in-class
exercises.
To Apply:
The application form can be found by clicking
here.
Participants will receive $250 as a stipend OR as course
development funds to enable you to implement multicultural teaching
ideas in your courses, assignments, projects, or in-class
exercises*. Readings and resources to enhance your teaching,
and lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Application deadline: March 31, 2011.