Teaching citational practice: A critical feminist approach

Hosted by: 
The CIRTL Network
October 27, 2021 | 11:00am to 12:30pm

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Ohio State, through the Institute for Teaching and Learning, is a CIRTL Network member. CIRTL courses, events, and workshops are open to graduate students and post-docs.

What effects do citational practices have on students’ understanding of who does and doesn’t belong in our field? What is the impact of the ‘stories’ we tell our students through our syllabi, footnotes, and bibliographies? How can we transform our own citational practice in order to empower the most vulnerable or excluded voices in our fields? In this two-part workshop, we will explore how, as educators, we can meaningfully legitimize overlooked or non-traditional sources of scholarship while breaking down biased norms of who belongs in labs, at the front of the lecture hall, and in our syllabi. In our first session, we will introduce critical feminist pedagogy as a framework for assessing the political and ethical implications of academic citation, both generally speaking and in your home departments and disciplines. In our second session, you will develop and workshop a pedagogical resource for enacting a critical-feminist approach to citational practice in your own classrooms and learning materials. If you are interested, at the end of the workshop you’ll be able to contribute your newly-designed resource to a STEM-focused issue of the Open Educational Resource (OER) Teaching Citational Practice: Critical Feminist Approaches, hosted by Columbia University Libraries.

Workshop Schedule This two-part workshop meets online on Wednesday, Oct. 13 and Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021 at 12-1:30 P.M. AT / 11 A.M.-12:30 P.M. ET / 10-11:30 A.M. CT / 9-10:30 A.M. MT / 8-9:30 A.M. PT.

Workload Participants will develop a pedagogical resource for enacting a critical-feminist approach to citational practice in their own classrooms and learning materials. To scaffold this work, and as preparation for synchronous group discussions, participants will be asked to complete a short asynchronous reading and a reflection exercise before the first session.

Registration & Enrollment This workshop is limited to 45 participants. Registration is open Monday, Aug. 16 until capacity is reached or until Friday, Oct. 8, whichever comes first. Registration will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis and registrants from CIRTL member institutions or alumni of CIRTL member institutions will receive priority. Once registration closes, all registrants will be notified of their enrollment status.

Accessibility We strive to be inclusive of anyone interested in participating in our activities. If you have specific accessibility needs, please contact us at info@cirtl.net in advance so that we may make the necessary accommodations.

Learning Outcomes

Associate: Evidence-Based Teaching

  • Describe several known high-impact, evidence-based effective instructional practices and materials and recognize their alignment with particular types of learning goals.

  • Describe several assessment techniques and recognize their alignment with particular types of learning goals.

Associate: Learning-through-Diversity

  • Describe the impact of diversity on student learning, in particular how diversity can enhance learning, and how inequities can negatively impact learning if not addressed.

  • Describe how an instructor’s beliefs and biases can influence student learning.

  • Describe and recognize the value of drawing on diversity in the development of teaching plans (including content, teaching practices and assessments) to foster learning.

  • Describe several learning-through-diversity (LtD) techniques and strategies.

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Workshops have synchronous online sessions in Zoom and require independent work outside of those meetings. Registration is required; STEM grad students and postdocs from CIRTL institutions receive enrollment priority.

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