Teaching Diversity and Inclusion: Examples from a French-Speaking Classroom

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 any disciplinary borders.

This book aims to instill classroom approaches which allow every student to feel safe to share their truth and to reflect deeply about their own identity and challenges, discussing course design, assignments, technologies, activities, and strategies that target diversity and inclusion in the French classroom. Each chapter shares why and how to design an inclusive community of learners, including opportunities to promote interdisciplinary approaches and cross-disciplinary collaborations, exploring cultures and underrepresented perspectives, and distinguishing unconscious biases. The essays also provide theoretical and practical strategies adaptable to any reflective teacher desiring to create a welcoming, inclusive classroom that draws in students they might not otherwise attract.

This long overdue work will be ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students and administrators seeking fresh approaches to diversity in the classroom.

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.