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SAGA Lecture:
What it Means to Have an Anti-racist Teaching Orientation in Academia
Dr. Asao Inoue
Professor and Associate Dean, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts
Arizona State University
Abstract: This talk engages with the question of what it means to form or have an antiracist orientation to teaching in higher education settings. It focuses not on people behaving badly, but rather on the historical and structural ways that most schools and teachers judge and read language; teachers’ ways of assessing language; the training in academic disciplines; common logics and ways with words that most teachers take on; and the expectations of language that come out of all these things. Inoue discusses how education generally promotes literacy practices through assessment ecologies that are White supremacist, and defines an antiracist orientation toward teaching and assessing in schools.
Asao Inoue is a professor and the associate dean for Academic Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. His research focuses on antiracist and social justice theory and practices in writing assessments. Labor-based grading contracts, composition theory and pedagogy, compassion in the classroom, and understanding and addressing white language supremacy.
See Inoue's ASU faculty webpage
Friday, April 16th, 2021 at 3:30pm
For Zoom link, email Amanda Percy