Practices of Care within the University Classroom

June 5, 2024 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Provost's Diversity Institute for Faculty Development

Participants in this session will be invited to consider how care (as principle) and care work (as practice) are enacted in classroom environments and how an investment in care can be further articulated through pedagogical moves rooted in accessibility, adaptability, and mutual accountability. Through engagement with Disability Studies scholarship and the principles of Disability Justice, participants will explore care as resistance while also interrogating the intrinsic relationship between care and labor. Participants will emerge from this session having outlined specific moves that centralize care for students and instructors, emphasizing small sustainable shifts in curriculum development.

Guest Facilitator: Jessie Male, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pittsburgh, The Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences, Writing Institute

Registration for this session is exclusively open to full- and part-time faculty affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh. The institute welcomes faculty from external institutions in the Pittsburgh region.

Please register to attend. You will receive an email with the Zoom meeting link.

Please contact teaching@pitt.edu for any questions.