Exploring Personal and Social Identity: Self-reflection as a Tool for Creating Inclusive Classroom Environments

Exploring Personal and Social Identity: Self-reflection as a Tool for Creating Inclusive Classroom Environments

In this workshop, participants will engage in discussions of social identity, and power and positionality that typically influence interactions in classroom learning environments. Participants will move through guided and reflective exercises on their learning and teaching contexts in terms of diversity, equity, and inclusion, increase their awareness of the role social identities (theirs and their students’) plays in students’ curricular experiences, and begin to identify effective, evidence-based strategies to create inclusive learning environments.