{"id":284,"date":"2021-08-06T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/?page_id=284"},"modified":"2021-10-21T15:03:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T15:03:44","slug":"pedagogy-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/schedule\/discussion-hubs\/pedagogy-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedagogy &amp; Curriculum Discussion Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Facilitators<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsu.edu\/hss\/cmst\/people\/faculty\/robvais.php\">Dr. Raquel Robvias<\/a>, Louisiana State University (Thursday, September 9, 1:30 \u2013 2:30 pm CST)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sju.edu\/faculty\/ann-green\">Dr. Ann Etta Green <\/a>St. Joseph&#8217;s University (Thursday, September 9, 3:00 \u2013 4:00 pm CST)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Notetakers\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justiss Burry, University of South Florida <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madison Krall, University of Utah<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Hub Description<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we contemplate this year&#8217;s theme &#8212;\u00a0 \u201c(Re-)Invention&#8221; &#8212; as an invitation for RHM to deeply reflect and deliberately act toward redressing social injustices, one space where we can have a significant and lasting impact is in our classrooms. Particularly after living through a global pandemic, which catalyzed substantial changes in our courses and pedagogies, we wanted to ensure we devoted space at this year&#8217;s symposium for us to unite as teachers to discuss pressing issues, share innovative ideas, and raise questions about the future of RHM courses, pedagogies, and curriculums.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Generative questions<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What innovative, exciting, or experimental approaches are you currently using in your teaching related to RHM?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can we ensure diverse, anti-racist, accessible, and socially just curricula in RHM courses?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can we build support networks for our community as teachers and pedagogues? How might we become a more welcoming and safe, and brave community for diverse teacher-scholars?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How might we best support our students as they learn about RHM, engage in RHM research, and\/or work toward being health and medical-related careers as RHM researchers or teachers, industry leaders, healthcare providers, etc.?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What might\/should the primary outcomes for RHM course(s) and program(s) be? How might\/should RHM courses advance our social justice, anti-racist, and inclusive commitments as a field?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How might\/should we frame the importance of our courses for various stakeholders \u2014 students, departmental colleagues\/leaders, community partners, etc.?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Discussion Hub Synthesis<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Keywords<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: pedagogy, critical race theory, diversity, social justice, anti-racism, in flux, flexibility, hybridity, inclusivity<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><b>Main Takeaways<\/b><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acknowledge explicitly the contributions that students are making in our courses.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enacting social justice in our teaching can happen on multiple levels. A few key levels: direct interactions with students,\u00a0 in our individual courses \/ pedagogies, within and across programs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Work to connect the good work happening in our classrooms back to programmatic levels. How can we translate our work as individual teachers\/activists\/advocates into broader programmatic commitments and goals?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developing Courses &amp; Managing Classrooms\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember the contexts in which we are teaching and engaging students \u2014 racial contexts, COVID-19, local contexts. Acknowledge and discuss these contexts with students because they inform how students (and we) are showing up in our classes.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May be helpful to draw from institutional and organizational resources when crafting syllabus language about DEI commitments and practices. E.g. Offices of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Disability Resource Centers, RHM, ARSTM, ATTW, and NCTE are good starting places.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider including Land Acknowledgements in your syllabus and learn about the land history at your institution so you can meaningfully, respectfully, and responsibly discuss with students\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Include diverse perspectives and voices in course readings, examples, case studies, and even the images you use in your course.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As teacher-scholars, we should be reading, citing, and amplifying published scholarship in the field about anti-racism and work published by BIPOC and minoritized scholars.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pay attention to silence in the classroom; it can be a defense mechanism. We should be working to encourage a classroom that is open to all perspectives.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supporting Students<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key is to care about students and issues they also face \u2013 whether it\u2019s required in a particular department or not.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask students about what knowledge they bring to our courses and be responsive to their prior knowledge, experience, language practices\/skills, and cultural backgrounds that they bring to the class, which may include being collaborative and flexible\/letting students guide us as teachers\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A pre-class survey can be one tool to get to know students better and adapt to your students<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acknowledging student contributions is one way to destabilize the power structures in our classes and value our students&#8217; knowledge, interests, and goals\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes the content we explore in RHM-related classes can be triggering for students; we should do our best to anticipate and warn students when we can so they can take care of themselves<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invite student feedback and work to be responsive to it throughout the semester\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advocate and amplify students in our classes and in our programs more broadly (e.g. are diverse students being acknowledged in departmental awards? How is your program supporting diverse students in pursuing internships?)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Help students make connections from classroom knowledge to beyond the academy \u2014 case studies, internships, collaborate with local organizations for learning opportunities in our classes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Designing &amp; Overseeing Programs\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review what theories and \u201ccore\u201d teachings are in our undergraduate and graduate programs \u2014 what kinds of knowledge is being centered as most valuable? What kinds of voices are deemed the most important?\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invite students to consider what makes a respectable scholar or respectable scholarship?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We should continue to review the anti-racist and DEI-related policies and practices we are putting into place.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><b>Key Resources\u00a0<\/b><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Molloy, C., Scott, J. B., &amp; Melon\u00e7on, L. (2021). Ruminations on the long haul: Harnessing RHM\u2019s hybridity.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rhetoric of Health &amp; Medicine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 4(1), iii-ix.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bostonreview.net\/science-nature-race\/bram-wispelwey-michelle-morse-antiracist-agenda-medicine?fbclid=IwAR3mzgiJ5voQZ_gQXzXSLm4oJ5Ui0KjPf8wP2CHQ621B7s6Bed2jMSwKnIs&amp;utm_source=pocket_mylist\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Anti-Racist Agenda in Medicine<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/10572252.2017.1402573?casa_token=GE-0fwMUz0gAAAAA:bxOuyo4nnOQNOPgxXCNdHUgft631cxbHNXfSucSeVlj3EIj7iKnxtibZZWLQ3vECEo61nkqq7WJt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kenzie, D., &amp; McCall, M. (2018). Teaching writing for the health professions: Disciplinary intersections and pedagogical practice. Technical Communication Quarterly, 27(1), 64-79.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theresa Brown, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Critical-Care-Nurse-Everything-Between\/dp\/0061791547\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critical Care: A nurse faces death, life, and everything in between<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anne Fadiman, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374533403\/the-spirit-catches-you-and-you-fall-down\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The spirit catches you and you fall down<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaupmercerinsurance.com\/business-insurance\/professional-liability\/professional-liability\/professional-liability.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AAUP professional liability program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resource for real-world case studies\/examples: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askamanager.org\/2018\/04\/intervening-with-a-bullying-coworker-my-colleague-runs-a-snack-shop-from-her-desk-and-more.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.askamanager.org\/2018\/04\/intervening-with-a-bullying-coworker-my-colleague-runs-a-snack-shop-from-her-desk-and-more.html<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elireview.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eli review<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 essentially a sophisticated peer review software system.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It claims to be ABA certified to help with accommodations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a paid subscription though, but you can convince your department folks\/higher administration to get the program if you use your rhetoric.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Future Directions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you drawing from different wells of knowledge? Are you citing new sources?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What publics are you engaging?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you an activist or are you a sideliner?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How in your work and your classroom are you emulating what the article invites us to do?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How are you resisting this academic stodginess (whatever that looks like in your part of the country\/your lives)?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How are you creating\/welcoming hybridity?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is the hardest stumbling block when discussing race in our particular situations (considering COVID is still rampant)?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facilitators Dr. Raquel Robvias, Louisiana State University (Thursday, September 9, 1:30 \u2013 2:30 pm CST) Dr. Ann Etta Green St. Joseph&#8217;s University (Thursday, September 9, 3:00 \u2013 4:00 pm CST) Notetakers\u00a0 Justiss Burry, University of South Florida Madison Krall, University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/schedule\/discussion-hubs\/pedagogy-curriculum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-284","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284\/revisions\/581"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}