Open Access10: INTERSECTING IDENTITIES AND THE WORK OF FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Author(s) -
Banks Cerri A.,
Luzzini Jonathan,
Pliner Susan M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2011.tb00627.x
Subject(s) - intersectionality , excellence , sociology , perspective (graphical) , diversity (politics) , identity (music) , engineering ethics , social justice , work (physics) , foundation (evidence) , power (physics) , public relations , pedagogy , political science , engineering , computer science , gender studies , social science , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , anthropology , acoustics , law
On increasingly diverse college campuses, faculty members look to faculty developers for support in facilitating difficult classroom dialogues and in handling challenging interactions around their students' identities and their own. We propose that faculty developers' work around issues of diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence can be enhanced by developing a foundation in the theory of intersectionality, which engages the complexity of identity and the resulting power structures that inform institutions. We discuss this theoretical perspective and provide examples of faculty development initiatives that can be strengthened through the use of an intersectional lens.