Pedagogy on Difficult Topics

Here we provide resources for instructors to engage with students on difficult topics in the classroom.  We also provide some links that instructors may find helpful for inclusive pedagogical practices.

• ACUE Inclusive Teaching Toolkit

• Checklist for Designing an Inclusive Syllabus

• Cho, Helen.  2011  "Lessons Learned: Teaching the Race Concept in the College Classroom." Multicultural Perspectives 13(1):36-41.Hubbard, A. R. (2017). Teaching race (bioculturally) matters: A visual approach for college biology courses. The American Biology Teacher, 79(7), 516-524.

• hooks, bell.  2014  Teaching to Transgress: Routledge.

• Hubbard, A. R. (2017). Testing common misconceptions about the nature of human racial variation. The American Biology Teacher, 79(7), 538-543.

• Hubbard, Amelia R, and Laurel A Monnig.  2020  "Using Anthropological Principles to Transform the Teaching of Human “Difference” and Genetic Variation in College Classrooms." Science & Education 29:1541-1565.

• Veri, M. J., Eliason, M., Hermoso, J. C. R., Bolter, N. D., and Van Olphen, J. E. (2019). The Social Justice Syllabus Design Tool: A First Step in Doing Social Justice Pedagogy. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 5(2), 133-166.