The Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP) at UTM, with its skilled staff and faculty expertise, is leading an initiative to create programming and resources supporting anti-racist curricular development. This project seeks to enhance the capacity of ISUP to introduce faculty to, and provide pathways for them to undertake, anti-racist pedagogical work and to develop transferrable resources and strategies for broader deployment within UTM and potentially other divisions. This funding allowed for the formation of a faculty and staff working group in the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP) as well as a survey of ISUP faculty and an environmental scan to identify existing support and resources, focusing on Anti-Black Racism (ABR) Pedagogy. Following this investigation, ISUP created new workshops, reading groups and resources to support anti-racist curricular development. The implementation of this pilot program within ISUP has allowed for the gathering of feedback and refining strategies, programming and resources.
Outcomes
The project has supported the development of the following:
- Reading lists and annotated bibliography: organized according to subject areas related to anti-racist pedagogy are available for faculty and staff. Subjects included in the reading lists and annotated bibliography: identity intersectionality and anti-Racist teaching practices; decolonizing methodologies and collaborative research with faculty, students and marginalized communities; bilingual pedagogical approaches and alternative/decolonial pedagogical practices in academia
- Environmental scan (report): resource developed to inform the implementation of anti-racist frameworks at the departmental level. Outputs of the scan also include a comprehensive spreadsheet documenting the implementation of antiBlack racism frameworks in peer institutions
- Annotated bibliography: documenting the role of writing mentorship for Black students in Canadian writing centres was produced. This is a resource for writing center administrators, staff and writing faculty who are interested in this topic