Motivational Interviewing
The two-week dive into critical pedagogy inspired DIP seminarians to reflect on their relationships with students both in and outside of the classroom. Discussions seemed to circle back to mentorship. In our roles as researchers, instructors, supervisors, and advisors, we…
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Drawing from the canon of pedagogy, our seminarians devoted two weeks to digging into Chapter 2 of Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Brazilian scholar Paulo Freire. In this chapter, Freire distinguishes between two models of learning: the traditional “banking model”…
Ableism and COVID-19
Our DIP Seminar devoted two weeks to dissecting ableism and COVID-19 response, using The Relationships Between COVID-19 Anxiety, Ageism, and Ableism by Amanda A. Arcieri as a launchpad for discussion. Attendees were also encouraged to explore two supplemental articles on…
World-Making: DIP Class Glossary Guides Learning
Community-based transformational learning requires more than a common understanding of goals and values. We also must share a common language with which to critique and unpack the ways that racism and sexism are maintained socially and institutionally. We began building…
DIP Reunites in Hybrid Format
The Diversity and Inclusion Pedagogy (DIP) community reunited this September in hybrid mode, integrating F2F and virtual learning interfaces in an effort to optimize accessibility. Our Fall 2021 community blends familiar faces with new folks, many overlapping with the UMass…
Day of Refusal
Today is the Transnational Day of Refusal, a kick-off to the Cops off Campus Coalition’s Abolition May. In small-group discussion today, we’ll ask: What does refusal mean to you in your space – individually, in your department, at UMass as…
The Ongoing Work of Abolition
As we are inundated daily with news of ongoing police murders of Black people, the impacts of systemic racism, the commodification of bodies, and a system of policing as an anti-Black white supremacist institution, imagining alternatives can be difficult. The…
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
For this week we are reading selections from Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. In Undrowned, Alexis is presenting considerations of marine mammals in a new way focused on growth and exploration of what they…
Science fiction and imagining futures
This week we will be continuing conversations on abolition and the tools we have to imagine a different future using science fiction. We invite you to read this essay, written by Walidah Imarisha, titled “Rewriting the future using science fiction…
What’s required (and hidden) in the graduate curriculum?
This week in the D/I/P seminar we will discuss the role of graduate curriculum in diversity, inclusion and pedagogy. We have two readings: Gerholm, T., 1990. On tacit knowledge in academia. European Journal of Education, pp.263-271. Blog post about the hidden…