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Difference, Power, and Oppression Program

This guide supports faculty teaching courses in the DPO category.

Education

Course Development Resources

Our course development resources are designed to aid faculty as they prepare to teach Difference, Power, and Oppression courses. The academic literature included in this list is only a sample of discipline/field-specific course development resources. Please contact us if you have a resource you'd like to see added to the list.

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Redesigning Syllabi to Create Antiracist Courses

Kilgo, D. B. (2021). Radically Transforming Programs and Syllabi. Teaching Race, 1.

Lo, R. S., & Mayorga, E. (2022). Redesigning Syllabi to Create Antiracist Courses. Teaching Ethics22(2).

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Allan, J. (2010). The inclusive teacher educator: Spaces for civic engagement. Discourse (Abingdon, England), 31(4), 411–422. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2010.504359

Applebaum, B. (2003). Social Justice, Democratic Education and the Silencing of Words that Wound. Journal of Moral Education, 32(2), 151–162. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305724032000072924

Baily, S., & Katradis, M. (2016). “Pretty Much Fear!!” Rationalizing Teacher (Dis)Engagement in Social Justice Education. Equity & Excellence in Education, 49(2), 215–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2016.1144833

Bentley-Williams, R., & Morgan, J. (2013). Inclusive education: Pre-service teachers’ reflexive learning on diversity and their challenging role. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 41(2), 173–185. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2013.777024

Booth, T. (2011). The name of the rose: Inclusive values into action in teacher education. Prospects (Paris), 41(3), 303–318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-011-9200-z

Flintoff, A., Dowling, F., & Fitzgerald, H. (2015). Working through whiteness, race and (anti) racism in physical education teacher education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 20(5), 559–570. https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2014.962017

Gorski, P. C. (2009). Cognitive dissonance as a strategy in social justice teaching. Multicultural Education, 17(1), 54. Hill-Jackson, V. (2007). Wrestling Whiteness: Three Stages of Shifting Multicultural Perspectives among White Pre-service Teachers. Multicultural Perspectives (Mahwah, N.J.), 9(2), 29–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960701386285

Keesing-Styles, L. (2006). Education for Social Justice in an Uncertain World. International Journal of Learning, 13(2), 95–102. https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v13i02/44833

Lensmire, T. J., McManimon, S. K., Tierney, J. D., Lee-Nichols, M. E., Casey, Z. A., Lensmire, A., & Davis, B. M. (2013). McIntosh as Synecdoche: How Teacher Education’s Focus on White Privilege Undermines Antiracism. Harvard Educational Review, 83(3), 410–431. https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.83.3.35054h14l8230574

McDonald, M. A. (2008). The Pedagogy of Assignments in Social Justice Teacher Education. Equity & Excellence in Education, 41(2), 151–167. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665680801943949

Pearce, S. (2012). Confronting dominant whiteness in the primary classroom: Progressive student teachers’ dilemmas and constraints. Oxford Review of Education, 38(4), 455–472. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2012.710546

Schmidt, S. J., Chang, S., Carolan-Silva, A., Lockhart, J., & Anagnostopoulos, D. (2012). Recognition, responsibility, and risk: Pre-service teachers’ framing and reframing of lesbian, gay, and bisexual social justice issues. Teaching and Teacher Education, 28(8), 1175–1184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2012.07.002

Walgenbach, K., & Reher, F. (2016). Reflecting on privileges: Defensive strategies of privileged individuals in anti-oppressive education. The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, 38(2), 189–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2016.1155957

Whitehead, K. (2007). Addressing Social Difference with Prospective Teachers Who Want “To Make a Difference.” Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 35(4), 367–385. https://doi.org/10.1080/13598660701268577