Resources for Curriculum Infusion
Page last updated: November 20, 2007
What Is Curriculum Infusion?
A diversity-infused curriculum includes four components: 1) incorporating knowledge, theories, and analyses from the perspective of historically oppressed or marginalized populations (click to see our definition) into course content and assignments, 2) developing teaching strategies and pedagogies that are sensitive to students from historically underserved populations, 3) paying conscious attention to the goal of reducing prejudice, and 4) transformation of the processes by which we construct knowledge. A fully infused curriculum challenges both students and faculty to think in new ways.
1. Resources for Infusing Course Content
2. Resources for Inclusive Pedagogies
3. Resources for Prejudice Reduction
4. Resources for Knowledge Transformation
An Overview: Diversityweb.org
Diversityweb.org is a metasite for diversity issues in higher education. You will find information collected here that ranges from the research on the benefits of diversity to examples of infused curricula, and everything in between.
A Wiki Discussion: https://wiki.uww.edu/diversitylearning
This is a UW-Whitewater project serving as an aid in teaching in the areas of race, ethnicity, and diversity, in making the campus climate more accepting to diverse students, and in providing information on effective teaching and learning approaches for minority and first generation college students. They invite other faculty from the UW System to join.
K-12 Resources
The Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Washington. Founded and directed by James A. Banks, one of the gurus of research on inclusive education for K-12 (and some higher education).
History Resources From our own Central Wisconsin History Collaborative project. Alphabetically by time periods and groups.
Best Practices: What does the research tell us about what works?
