Shifting the onus from racial/ethnic minority students to faculty: Accountability for culturally inclusive pedagogy and curricula

Stephen John Quaye, Ph.D., University of Maryland - College Park
Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

In this article, our goal is to personalize the concerns of diverse student populations and encourage faculty to intentionally incorporate cultural inclusion into their pedagogy and their courses. In light of a student's story (Julian) story and the responses of some of his peers, we emphasize that the onus needs to shift from students, who are expected to adjust to insensitive and monocultural classroom environments, to faculty, who need to change their teaching approaches to benefit an increasingly diverse array of students.