How Diverse Is Your Syllabus?
During an impromptu pre-department meeting chat with literacy colleagues, we began to think about examining our syllabi for diversity of required and recommended texts. We noted that often people examine reading lists for K-12 students in terms of diversity, such as children’s literature, adolescent literature, and the secondary canon.
Below are the texts listed on my course syllabi for all courses I currently teach on a regular basis. I have put white male authors in red text for a quick glance at diversity.
Assigned and Recommended Texts in Taught Courses
[In many courses, students choose among these texts, and in some courses, students have choice outside this list. These are texts offered on course syllabi as limited choice but required in courses.]
White male author
Why We Teach Now, Sonia Nieto
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin DiAngelo
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too, Chris Emdin CONTINUE READING: How Diverse Is Your Syllabus? – radical eyes for equity