Episode 9: Deep Teaching with Bryan Dewsbury

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Beyond the Exclusive-Inclusive Paradigm: Who do you want your students to be?

Enjoy a conversation with Dr. Bryan Dewsbury about an approach to inclusive instruction that goes beneath the mechanics of your courses. We don’t talk about what your syllabus looks like, how you engage students in your learning environments, or how you assess students. Instead we discuss an approach to inclusive instruction that first and foremost focusses on the criticality of developing an enriched and enhanced understanding of your students.  The ideas we discuss in this episode have the power to change your relationship with your students allowing you to develop an inclusive classroom that enriches the personal development of all your students.  In this episode, we do not discuss what your students need to learn, we do not discuss what your students need to be able to do.  We talk about issues that address the question “Who do you want your students to be”.  

References

• Dewsbury, B.M. and C. Braeme. 2019. Inclusive Teaching. CBE-LSE Vol 18(2)

• Dewsbury, B.M. 2019. Deep Teaching - A conceptual model for inclusive approaches to higher education STEM pedagogy. Cultural Studies in Science Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-018-9891-z
  

Recommended Readings

• Fugitive Pedagogy: The Longer Roots of Antiracist Teaching. (2021). Jarvis R. Givens. Los Angeles Review of Books special series, “Antiracism in the Contemporary University,” edited by Tita Chico.

• Why sites students are 250% more likely to graduate at public universities. (2021). Sanchez and Kolodner. The Hechinger Report.

• How College Teaching Can Have A Future. (2021). Ryan Boyd. Public Books.

Other Resources

• Bryan Dewsbury at FIU. https://case.fiu.edu/about/directory/profiles/dewsbury-bryan.html

• Science Education and Society website. http://www.seasprogram.net/personnel.html

• Elizabeth B. Moje (1996). I Teach Students, Not Subjects": Teacher-Student Relationships as Contexts for Secondary Literacy. Reading Research Quarterly. Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr. - May - Jun., 1996), pp. 172-195.

• The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America. Jonathan Zimmerman.

• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Heather McGhee

• The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units. Wiggins and McTighe

• NPR “This I Believe”