To shed light on the development of gender and diversity issues, teach your students about the academic history of your field and its interdisciplinary relationships with other fields. You often need a reflective relationship with your own field’s culture to avoid excluding people and to invite change – even in your own teaching. Deliberately seek out questions in your field with relevance to Gender and Diversity Studies, such as criticism of science, debates over research methods ...

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You are used to preparing your lessons thoroughly. Part of gender- and diversity-conscious lesson planning is preparation oriented to both the learning goals and the audience: Who are the students who attend your course? What are their learning goals and motivations? What learning goals should be achieved in the course according to the program regulations? What methods can you use to be as aware of gender and diversity in your teaching as possible? How can you shape the communication in ...

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Developing your gender- and diversity-conscious communication skills also means paying special attention to discrimination in communication situations . This improves your ability to notice discriminatory language used by yourself and others and to offer alternatives. Communication situations can improve when everyone involved understands how a statement can change “in transit” between the sender to the recipient and realizes the role of the power structures within which ...

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A good sense of your own (social) position and your role as a lecturer can help make you more self-aware of your (power) relationships with others. Many hierarchical interactions are perpetuated through day-to-day behavior. This also occurs during teaching, for example, either due to unconscious distinctions that lead to treating male and female students unequally, or also to deliberately racist remarks. An important prerequisite for change is your desire and willingness to enact it. If ...

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