Faculty Dialogue Series – Creating Inclusive Classrooms
Selected Readings on Key Concepts
Creating Inclusive Classrooms - General
- Inclusive Teaching Guide - UC Berkeley Center for Teaching and Learning
Stereotype Threat
- A threat in the air: How stereotypes shape the intellectual identities and performance of women and African Americans.
Claude M. Steele. American Psychologist, 52, 613-629, 1997.
- Whistling Vivaldi:How Stereotypes Affect Us And What We Can Do.(link is external)
Claude M. Steele. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. See especially Chapters 1, 8 and 9.
- Framed: Understanding achievement gaps.
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton. In J.H. Marsh, Mendoza-Denton, R., & J. Adam Smith (Eds.), Are We Born Racist? New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology (pp. 24-33). Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2010.
Fixed Ability Mindset
- Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines.
Sarah-Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian, Meredith Meyer, and Edward Freeland. Science, Vol. 347, Issue 6219, pp. 262-265, 16 Jan 2015.
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.(link is external)
Carol S. Dweck. New York: Random House, 2006.
Implicit Bias
- State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review, published annually beginning in 2013. (link is external)
Cheryl Staats and Charles Patton, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Columbus, OH: Kirwan Institute, The Ohio State University. 2013 Note: The Kirwan Institute updates this review annually. The 2013 (innaugural) version is recommended for its substantial background information. Subsequent versions include current research findings and analyses.
Identity, Power and Privilege in the Classroom
- Critical Self-Knowledge for Social Justice Educators. Lee Anne Bell, Diane J. Goodman, and Rani Varghese. In Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, Third Edition. Edited by Maurianne Adams and Lee Anne Bell, with Diane J. Goodman and Khyati Y. Joshi. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.
Communicating Across Difference
- Helping People Talk About Race: Facilitation Skills for Educators and Trainers
Derald Wing Sue. In Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence (Chapter 13). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2015.
- Failure to warn: How student race affects warnings of potential academic difficulty(link is external).
Jennifer Randall Crosby and Benoît Monin. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 43 (2007) 663–670, 2007.
Belonging
- The Problem of Othering: Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging
john a. powell and Steven Menendian. Othering and Belonging Institute, 2016.