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Creating a Framework for a Culturally Affirming, Inclusive and Anti-Racist Curriculum
By Allison Pease
This podcast series is hosted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice Associate Provost Dara Byrne and Associate Provost Allison Pease to accompany the 2020-2021 process of creating a shared framework for a culturally affirming, inclusive, and anti-racist curriculum that serves all students aspiring to careers in criminal and social justice fields at our proud Hispanic- and Minority-Serving college. Dr. Pease can be reached at apease@jjay.cuny.edu.
Episode 4: What Is an Anti-Racist Curriculum?
As part of our faculty-wide discussion on creating a framework for a culturally affirming, inclusive and anti-racist curriculum, Associate Provosts Dara Byrne and Allison Pease talk with (in order of appearance on the show) Professor Demis Glasford (Psychology), Professor Shreya Subramani (Law and Society), Professor Virginia Diaz-Mendoza (SEEK) and Professor Ray Patton (History and Honors) about how they understand and enact anti-racist curriculum and pedagogy. In particular, this episode explores the importance of bringing students’ lived experiences into the classroom to disrupt and challenge established knowledge.
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Episode 3: What Is An Inclusive Curriculum?
As part of our faculty-wide discussion on creating a framework for a culturally affirming, inclusive, and anti-racist curriculum, Associate Provosts Dara Byrne and Allison Pease talk with (in order of appearance on the show) Professor Silvia Mazzula (Psychology), Alexandra Moffet-Bateau (Political Science), And John Gutiérrez (Latin American and Latinx Studies) about how they understand and enact inclusive curriculum and pedagogy. In particular, this episode questions the value of the terms culturally affirming and inclusive as they relate to white supremacy. In addition Professors Mazzula, Moffet-Bateau and Gutiérrez discuss the effects of white supremacy on their own educations and efforts to engage students.
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Episode 2: What Is A Culturally Affirming Curriculum?
As part of our faculty-wide discussion on creating a framework for a culturally affirming, inclusive, and anti-racist curriculum, Associate Provosts Dara Byrne and Allison Pease talk with (in order of appearance on the show) Professor Henry Smart III (Public Management), Nina Rose Fischer (Interdisciplinary Studies), Jama Adams (Africana Studies), Lissette Delgado-Cruzatta (Sciences), and Monika Son (SEEK) about how they understand and enact culturally affirming curriculum and pedagogy.
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Episode 1: The Curriculum IS the Institution, the call for change.
Associate Provosts Pease and Byrne discuss the need for curricular change, faculty and student meetings over summer 2020, and the next steps for creating a shared framework for our curriculum.
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