MSU’s Office of Faculty and Academic Staff Development has a great collection, “Resources for Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom” including but not limited to internal [to MSU] and external links on confrontation, bias, policies, and more. Here are a few of the resources:
The Art of Confrontation – COVID version
- Prepared by Rick Shafer, Dean of Students Office
https://remote.msu.edu/_assets/docs/The_Art_of_Confrontation_faculty_COVID_version.pdf
Bias Busters: Guides to Cultural Competence
- Website Project of the MSU School of Journalism, College of Communication Arts and Sciences
http://news.jrn.msu.edu/culturalcompetence/
IDI Education and Training Opportunities
- Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
http://inclusion.msu.edu/education/index.html
Ideas for Disciplinary Content
- Compiled by the MSU Libraries
https://www.lib.msu.edu/inclusiveteaching/
Office of Institutional Equity Policies
To My Professor: Student Voices for Great College Teaching
- Book by MSU School of Journalism students and editor Joe Grimm, College of Communication Arts and Sciences
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/12/new-book-advice-college-instructors-based-thousands-student-comments
Difficult Dialogues Guide
- Annotated resources produced by Vanderbilt University
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/difficult-dialogues/
Difficult Dialogues Handbook, Strategies and Resources
- Resources produced by the University of Alaska Difficult Dialogues Project and the Ford Foundation
Handbook for Facilitating Difficult Conversations
- Resources produced by Queens College, City University of New York (pdf)
Link to PDF document
Inclusive Practices for Managing Controversial Issues
- Online document produced by Flinders University of Australia
https://ofasd.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/TIPS_controversial.pdf
Inviting Dialogue
- Resource produced by Clark University (pdf)
https://ofasd.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ClarkUnivInvitingDialogue.pdf
Mindfulness and Discussing “Thorny” Issues in the Classroom (article)
- Alexakos, K., Pride, L. D., Amat, A., Tsetsakos, P., Lee, K. J., Paylor-Smith, C., … & Smith, T. (2016). Mindfulness and discussing “thorny” issues in the classroom. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-015-9718-0
Toolkit for Inclusive Learning Environments
- Project by the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University
http://guides.library.jhu.edu/TILE
Books Available from oFASD
To borrow any of the following titles, stop by 2W of the Main Library (across from the Digital Scholarship Lab). Some titles are available electronically on stable links through MSU Libraries.
- Brookfield, Stephen D. The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking.
- Book via electronic access, courtesy of MSU Libraries
- Chickering, Art (Foreword) Encountering Faith in the Classroom: Turning Difficult Discussions into Constructive Engagement
- Book via electronic access, courtesy of MSU Libraries
- Landis, Kay (ed.) Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education.
- Nash, Robert J. How to Talk About Hot Topics on Campus: From Polarization to Moral Conversation.
- Roderick, Libby. Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education.
- Wheatley, Margaret J. Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
BIAS AND RACE
#Charlestonsyllabus
- Resource produced by the African American Intellectual History Society
http://www.aaihs.org/resources/charlestonsyllabus/
#FergusonSyllabus
- Resources produced by Sociologists for Justice
https://sociologistsforjustice.org/ferguson-syllabus
Eight Actions to Reduce Racism in College Classrooms
- Article by Shaun R. Harper and Charles H. F. Davis III from Academe (pdf)
https://ofasd.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HarperDavis-EightActionsToReduceRacismInCollegeClassrooms.pdf
Learning to Talk about Race in the Classroom
- Resource from Inside Higher Ed.’s Gradhacker (blog article)
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/learning-talkrace-classroom
Project Implicit (Implicit Bias)
- Project by Harvard University
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Promoting Racial Literacy in Schools: Differences That Make a Difference
- Book by Stevenson, H. C. (2013). Teachers College Press.
Responding to Incidents of Hate Speech
- Webpage produced by the Center for Research on Teaching and Learning at the University of Michigan
http://crlt.umich.edu/node/93036
Teaching Tolerance
- Program of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Resources for K-12, but many transferrable ideas
http://www.tolerance.org/lets-talk
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