The Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Hub
TRANSFORMATIVE WORK
School or Organization
Go beyond your own self-reflection to examine your pedagogy and curriculum. Learn from scholars and art educators committed to ED&I work in operationalizing culturally responsive teaching and embed Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), as well as other historically oppressed artists, into your lesson plans to positively transform the culture of your educational spaces.
LITERATURE
Education as the Practice of Freedom
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.
AUDIO/VIDEO
The subject of race can be very touchy. As finance executive Melody Hobson says, it's a "conversational third rail." But, she says, that's exactly why we need to start talking about it. In this engaging, persuasive talk, Hobson makes the case that speaking openly about race—and particularly about diversity in hiring—makes for better businesses and
We Need to Talk About an Injustice
In an engaging and personal talk
with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks, human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight, and persuasiveness.
Teaching With the
World Peace Game
John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4 x 5 foot plywood board and lets his 4th graders solve them.
At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches—spontaneous, and always surprising—go further than classroom lectures can.
WEB
This version of the speech by Elaine Heumann Gurian was published in Reshaping Museum Space, published by Routledge 2005. Subsequently the speech was republished in Gurian's anthology, Civilizing the Museum, also published by Routledge. An earlier version of the paper is linked here. The paper suggests that space design matters in terms of welcoming visitors. It is one of a series of papers written by Gurian about space, inclusion, and welcome.