CREATING SPACE FOR GENDER EQUITY AND INCLUSIVITY IN OUR PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES
Professor Syrett will examine how we can and should create space for gender equity and inclusivity in our pedagogical practices, through the language of instruction, the materials we use to communicate concepts and field-specific phenomena, the language we use to outline our policies and practices, and through our manner of presentation.
November 15, 2022
3:00-5:00 p.m. in Kresge 1515
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Kristen Syrett is an Associate Dean in the SAS Office of Undergraduate Education at Rutgers University – New Brunswick and an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). Her NSF-funded research on language acquisition and linguistic representation investigates how children acquire word meaning, and her experimental semantics and pragmatics research focuses on how we dynamically assign meaning to words and sentences in a discourse context. She has been recognized for her research, teaching, and mentoring with awards at the University level and in the field of Linguistics. Outside of her research, she is an advocate for gender equity and inclusivity in higher education and the field of Linguistics. She has served as a consultant and has been featured in the media as an expert on diversity, gender, and inclusive language.
Website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/kristen-syrett/about/
Reading for the talk:
Cépeda, P., Kotek, H., Pabst, K. & Syrett, K. (2021). Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice (1997)? Language, 97, 678-702.