FLASHPOINTS Vignettes

About

This project presents filmed classroom vignettes which focus on exclusion, marginalization and oppression. Each vignette features a faculty member responding to or initiating a challenging incident with a student/s. The vignettes are all open-ended, and do not present an optimum “solution” ; vignettes are designed to promote a discussion about the role and responsibility of faculty/leaders in creating and maintaining classroom learning environments which are inclusive and anti-oppressive.

The topics include:

1. Misgendering;
2. Disability accommodations;
3. Land acknowledgements;
4. Spring Break [class differences];
5. Controversial topics [Israel/Palestine];
6. Trigger Warnings;
7. Immigration;
8. Women in science
9. Five additional vignettes from a previous project.

There is a Discussion Guide. with lesson plans and additional resources are included. There are also four filmed Faculty Interviews. in which faculty discuss their challenges and strategies for dealing with critical classroom moments regarding diversity and oppression.

This contents of this series are related to the FLASHPOINTS series as a whole. Additional FLASHPOINTS material can be found on the FLASHPOINTS Page.