Working towards inclusive history in undergraduate curriculum
Preferred Delivery
In-Person
Length of Presentation
50 minutes
Start Date
20-10-2023 10:00 AM
End Date
20-10-2023 10:50 AM
Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
How do we develop anti-racist, inclusive history curricula at the university level? And how will we know when we have succeeded? In this session, members of the History Department at Eastern Illinois University reflect on their recent curriculum review process, the resources they used to develop their curriculum, and the conversations they had in their department about how to achieve their goals while protecting academic freedom. They will also consider next steps.
Description
- The History Department at EIU recently revised its curriculum to align with commitments it has made in the summer of 2020, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, and Illinois’s adoption of new learning standards for which we needed to prepare our future teachers. We wanted to develop an anti-racist, inclusive curriculum, but we lacked clear models for what such a curriculum might look like at the university level, or how to achieve those goals while also preserving the academic freedom of faculty members. And we wondered how we might overcome staffing and resource constraints. In this presentation, we will:
- Describe the considerations that led us to embark upon curriculum revision and the process we developed for reviewing and changing our curriculum.
- Identify and evaluate the resources we gathered as we defined our terms and applied them to our disciplinary modes of thinking, teaching, and learning.
- Reflect upon the outcome of our revision and what remains to be done.
The intended audience for this presentation would be secondary history and social studies teachers and faculty in higher education who share similar goals for their departments.
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Working towards inclusive history in undergraduate curriculum
How do we develop anti-racist, inclusive history curricula at the university level? And how will we know when we have succeeded? In this session, members of the History Department at Eastern Illinois University reflect on their recent curriculum review process, the resources they used to develop their curriculum, and the conversations they had in their department about how to achieve their goals while protecting academic freedom. They will also consider next steps.
Speaker Information
Sace Elder, PhD, is professor and chair of history at Eastern Illinois University and affiliate faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz is professor of history and coordinator of the History with Teacher Licensure option. She is also affiliate faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Aura Jirau Arroyo is assistant professor of history and member of Latin American and Latinx Studies minor program.
(Note: We may have one more person joining us, should the session be accepted.)