CO-SPONSORED SESSION: Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit and Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit

“Psychological, Religious, and Pedagogical Engagement with "DEI" Paradigms in the Classroom and Beyond” 

What does it mean to successfully engage diversity, equity, and inclusion in a classroom or institutional setting in a way that is transformative? This panel invites critical engagement from psychology, religion, and pedagogical perspectives in relation to both the value and limits of DEI paradigms for rectifying power imbalances and other issues in pedagogical spaces. What does transformative pedagogy in relation to DEI concerns look like? How might DEI paradigms contribute to equitable and inclusive change or does the focus on DEI let institutions and/or faculty off the hook for deeper work on decolonizing the academy?