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How are US language centers approaching DEI? Hints for SACs
link to this post: v.gd/jasal2022
It is my honor to be invited to speak at JASAL 2022 on October 22, 2022 as part of the plenary panel.
I feel quite humbled to be given a place on the stage with the other panelists, Ashley R. Moore and Satoko Watkins.
- How are US language centers approaching DEI? Hints for SACs: Plenary panel video
- How are US language centers approaching DEI? Hints for SACs: Plenary panel slides
- Adapting faculty development initiatives for DEI to Japanese contexts: Invited presentation slides
Japan-specific issues
- 10 Biggest Human Rights Challenges in Japan
- Amnesty International Report: Japan 2021
- Education and Social Justice in Japan by Kaori H. Okano
- Explorations into being Hafu: Megumi Nishikura at TEDxKyoto 2013
- Foreign Female English Teachers in Japanese Higher Education: Narratives from our Quarter
- Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist by Baye McNeil
- Human Rights Watch: World Report 2022: Japan
- Readings on Diversity Issues: From hate speech to identity and privilege in Japan (book edited by Lisa Rogers, Soo Im Lee, and Julia K Harper)
- “Yes, I can use chopsticks: the everyday ‘microaggressions’ that grind us down” by Debito Arudou
Linguistic diversity
- Language Ideologies and Linguistic Discrimination (resources from a group of linguists who have been meeting for shared learning and discussion of possible new forms of outreach related to language ideologies and linguistic discrimination)
- Languages as drivers of institutional diversity by Sonja Fritzsche, Luca Giupponi, Emily Heidrich Uebel, Felix A. Kronenberg, Christopher P. Long, & Koen Van Gorp
- The Significance of Linguistic Profiling | John Baugh | TEDxEmory
UDL & accessibility
- Accessibility Essentials in Online Language Teaching by Caitlin Cornell
- Against Cop Shit by Jeffrey Moro
- Assessing Outside the Box: The Open Format Assessment by Caitlin Cornell and Megan Dean
- Moving Toward Accessible Language Teaching by Caitlin Cornell, Dustin De Felice, Adam Gacs, Kathryn McEwen, Robert Randez, Kate Sonka, and Anne Violin-Wigent
- Using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Promote Achievement for All with Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL)
Faculty-focused initiatives
- Amplify – a resource aggregator (index) of professional learning experiences for world language education (Can be filtered by descriptors, such as “UDL” or “social justice.”)
- CERCLL Webinar Recordings, Fall 2020 – Social Justice and Literacy-Based Planning
- Connecting language programs around student-informed anti-racist teaching (University of Michigan Language Resource Center)
- Engaging Online Language Learners through SEL
- Inclusive Teaching at U-M
- Kyoto JALT Social Justice + Language Teaching Working Group
- Language Collaboratory – a partnership for the advancement of intercollegiate dialogue on the teaching of languages and cultures in higher ed, organized by language centers at five US institutions
- Online language pedagogy resources (including many on accessibility, differentiation, and social emotional learning)
- Social Justice in Language Education (CARLA)
DEI statements
- Five Colleges
- University of Iowa
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Oregon
- Stanford University
- University of Wisconsin
