Grant Recipients
(Left: Katy Fulfer, Right: Kim Nguyen)
Kim Nguyen, Communication studies / GSJ
Katy Fulfer, Philosophy / GSJ
(Project timeline: January 2024 - December 2024)
Description
- This grant seeks to design co-teaching strategies and materials for two weeks of both GSJ 3xx and 101. Recipients are hopeful to further explore how educators may better be able to enable students to navigate 'comfort' in difficult discussion topics such as race and feminism.
- Intersectional feminism aims to promote an understanding of the ways in which identity is multifaceted, but its racialized entailments often go amiss in scholarship and classrooms. Further, intersectional feminism can be subject to cooptation and dilution by white feminism and studies that centre gender/sexuality.
Questions Investigated
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What are effective co-teaching activities (e.g., discussion questions, exercises) to illustrate intersectional feminism as a commitment to each other and to building community, through faults, mistakes, and difficult topics?
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To what extent does co-teaching enrich instructor ability to foster care in the classroom environment?