Diversity
Issues of diversity are central to every classroom at Illinois State, and CAT offers
the links below to help teachers recognize the various forms that diversity may take,
as well as how to create more inclusive classrooms and teaching styles. Writers for
the links below remind teachers that their classrooms are always more diverse than
they may appear, as much diversity goes without obvious visual signifiers. At the same
time, teachers are reminded that their behaviors as teachers have a huge impact on
how "diverse" their students will think classrooms are, and teachers are
offered several practical strategies for making diversity a natural part of their classes.
Diversity Centers
- Center for Multilingual
Multicultural Research (USC)
- Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information
Technology
- Evergreen Center: Diversity & Inclusive
Pedagogy
- Murray
Research Center: Diversity Archives
- Pluralism Project on Religious
Diversity (Harvard)
Pedagogy and Diversity
- APA Guidelines
for Avoiding Heterosexual Bias in Language
- Capitalizing on Classroom Diversity
to Enhance Student Learning (Joe Cuseo)
- A 22-page document offering definitions of diversity, as well as research findings
on the importance of diversity to student learning and a collection of practical
instructional strategies.
- Diversity Web: An Interactive Resource Hub
for Higher Education (AACU)
- Gender, Race,
and Ethnicity in the Media (Iowa)
- A collection of links for various online resources that connect diversity and popular
culture, the site is intended to be used as a resource of adding diversity to classrooms.
- Multicultural
Occasional Papers (UMich)
- A collection of faculty-produced papers on topics like "Perceptions of Faculty
Behavior by Students of Color" and "Undergraduate Women in Science and
Engineering." This site also contains a collection of teaching tips for creating
more culturally aware classes.
- NCTE
Guidelines for Gender-Inclusive Language
- Office of Diversity and Affirmative Action (Illinois
State)
- Working with Diverse
Groups of Students (Washington)
- Excellent resources and links that discuss the sort of things even the most well-intentioned
teachers may do and not realize it, but which distract students from learning. Particularly
useful are the comments from students as responses to teacher-insensitivity.
Other Resources
- Africa Speaks: West African University
Students Write about Their Lives
- An Annotated Bibiliography on Diversity
in Psychology (APA)
- Avoiding Heterosexual
Bias in Psychological Research (APA)
- Bridging
the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use (T.
Novak & D. Hoffman, Vanderbilt)
- Teaching Tolerance (Southern
Poverty Law Center)
- The Challenge of Diversity:
Alienation in the Academy and Its Implications for Faculty (D. Smith, NTLF)
- The Web for Faithful
Citizens: How Is the Internet Good for Citizens? (R. Merikangas, Maryland)
- Value and Education in a
Democracy: An Annotated Heuristic Bibliography (R. Merikangas, Maryland)
- Valuing Diversity (National
Organization of Women)
