Principal Investigator: Laila Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Teaching, The School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
Project description
Five faculty members in Writing, Research, and Discourse Studies (WRDS) recently developed the “Anti-Racist Toolkit for the Writing Classroom,” a 38pg guide that includes links, citations, reflective questions, and action items. The toolkit responds to a gap in our unit’s knowledge: we increasingly recognize the potential role of writing courses in addressing racism but many of our 35+ faculty members are unsure how to re-imagine their pedagogy. Funding from a SoTL seed grant would allow us to conduct focus groups with WRDS faculty who are using the toolkit and to assess how helpful it is in bridging that gap.
Research questions
- How do faculty navigate the “Anti-Racist Toolkit for the Writing Classroom”?
- What aspects of it do they find helpful, inspiring, and/or informative? What aspects do they find discouraging, limiting, and/or confusing?
- How do faculty take up approaches from the toolkit in their classrooms?
- How successful do they think those interventions are?
- Overall: is the toolkit helpful and supportive for faculty seeking to incorporate anti-racist and decolonizing teaching strategies in their course design?