Meet Kim Brown Barber, Ph.D., founder of Journey to Becoming, LLC and contributing author of Teaching through Challenges for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). Dr. Brown Barber is an educator and entrepreneur that focuses on empowering students to graduate college and to choose a future that fulfills their best selves. With a background in higher education and business, our target audience is multicultural collegiate students and female leaders. From speaking at universities and conferences across the nation and having contributed to publications in academia throughout the years, Dr. Brown Barber is a thought leader in reaching underrepresented student populations in higher education, women leadership, and intercultural competence.
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Colleges and universities cannot ignore the increasingly diverse student population in their classrooms, and how a focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion across disciplines trains students in the intercultural awareness they will need in competitive job markets. Yet while faculty may be aware of a need to understand EDI goals in relationship to their disciplines, and institutions may support EDI in theory, the onus of pedagogical training in EDI often falls on individual faculty. This book was written by faculty and administrators for educators who value the goals of EDI, and seek an intellectual community to help them develop their practice. Important to this book is an honest discussion of common challenges faculty may face when they engage in this difficult work, and effective strategies for addressing those challenges. The chapters are grouped according to six different themes: respect for divergent learning styles; inclusion and exclusion; technology and social action; affective considerations; reflection for critical consciousness; and safe spaces and resistance.
