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Supporting Diversity in the Classroom Community
by Yoshi Grote
Boys to the left, girls to the right; How can we un-gender our classrooms? How can we change the discourse about LGBTQIA+ individuals from “they” to “possibly you or me”? Most importantly, how can we make sure that our classroom communities are safe, empowering and diversity-inclusive? In this session, I will try to answer these questions by sharing what I have learnt as an openly-gay teacher in dialogue with LGBTQIA+ students in the university. This interactive session outlines four steps I believe all teachers can adapt to their learning contexts, with pauses for discussion. At these times, participants will be invited to consider to what extent they already take these steps in their teaching environments and to share activities or approaches that have worked well for them.
Yoshi Grote
teaches content electives (focusing on topics such as gender, intercultural skills, positive psychology, identity) in the foreign language department of Kyoto Sangyo University. My research interests include: 1) Visibility / invisibility and sense of belonging of LGBTQIA+ students in classes and campus & creation of diversity-positive spaces. 2) The intersection of language, intercultural training and education with a focus on building intercultural competence in English language classrooms.
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