1st Edition

Teaching Diversity and Inclusion Examples from a French-Speaking Classroom

Edited By E. Nicole Meyer, Eilene Hoft-March Copyright 2021
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French-Speaking Classroom explores new and pioneering strategies for transforming current teaching practices into equitable, inclusive and immersive classrooms for all students. This cutting-edge volume dares to ask new questions, and shares innovative, concrete tools useful to a wide variety of classrooms and institutional contexts, far beyond... Read more

Introduction

E. Nicole Meyer and Eilene Hoft-March

Section 1: Unscripting and Claiming Identities

Chapter 1: Queer Pedagogy for a Queer(er) Francophone Classroom

CJ Gomolka

Chapter 2: A Starter Kit for Rethinking Trans Representation and Inclusion in French L2 Classrooms

Kris Aric Knisely

Chapter 3: Disability Studies and the French Classroom: Toward a ‘Democracy of Proximity’

Tammy Berberi

Chapter 4: Why We Need to Talk about Race: Improving Racial Inclusivity in the French Language Classroom

Kate Nelson

Section 2: Inclusively Speaking

Chapter 5: Inclusive Language Pedagogy for (Un)Teaching Gender in French

Kiki Kosnick

Chapter 6: How Can We Teach French Inclusively? Challenges and Resistance

Dominique Carlini Versini

Chapter 7: A Classroom for Everyone: Creating French Courses that Embrace Learning Differences

Kathryn A. Dettmer and Brenda A. Dyer

Chapter 8: Diversifying the Curriculum: From Structural Changes to Classroom Lessons

Jessica S. Miller

Chapter 9: Embracing the Francophone World across the French Curriculum

Stephanie Schechner

Chapter 10: Unlearning the Language of Divisiveness

Eilene Hoft-March

Section 3: Embracing Cultures/Extending Contexts

Chapter 11: Strategies for Teaching Diversity and Inclusion in Introductory Literature Courses

Dominique Licops

Chapter 12: The Making of the Other Americas: Discovering the Francospheres of Latin America

Lowry Martin

Chapter 13: Connecting French Studies to the World through Global Foodways

Lauren Ravalico

Chapter 14: Lessons in Diversity from the Street: A Course on Hip-hop Cultures

Kathryn St. Ours

Chapter 15: "We are all Negroes": Teaching Tolerance from a Haitian Literary Perspective

Lovia Mondésir

Chapter 16: Introducing Diversity into the Graduate Classroom: Teaching Jewish Francophone Writers

Nancy M. Arenberg

Chapter 17: Promoting Mutual Understanding and Inclusion in the French Classroom through French, Israeli, and Polish Post-Holocaust Life Writing

E. Nicole Meyer

Appendix: Essential Reads

Biography

E. Nicole Meyer is is a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques and Professor of French and Women’s and Gender Studies at Augusta University. She publishes on a wide array of topics including contemporary French and Francophone women’s autobiography, Flaubert, and French for Specific Purposes.

Eilene Hoft-March is Professor of French and Francophone Studies and the Milwaukee-Downer and College Endowment Association Professor of Liberal Studies at Lawrence University where she also contributes to the Gender Studies and Global Studies programs.