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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Why this Toolkit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This toolkit includes strategies to implement inclusive teaching and culturally responsive practices into instruction sessions and interactions with students. Our goal in creating this toolkit is to provide practical strategies for librarians, faculty, and staff to improve their instructional approaches and help them create an inclusive space in their classrooms building towards anti-racism. This toolkit will benefit those familiar with the culturally responsive and inclusive pedagogy frameworks and novice users. It serves as a valuable resource for current and prospective faculty, graduate students, supervisors, library staff, university staff, librarians, library administrators, and other campus stakeholders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The toolkit is organized into wide topics that were derived from a comprehensive qualitative research project that was carried out from 2021-2022. The topics provide an overview of different frameworks as well as methods that include a detailed checklist to assist faculty, staff, and librarians to incorporate culturally responsive and inclusive teaching into their instruction and interactions with students. This toolkit is designed to guide the individual choices of faculty, staff, and librarians. However, for these frameworks to be truly effective, they must be widely implemented at the institutional level to influence policy adaptation. Ultimately, this toolkit provides strategies to cultivate an inclusive culture that will enhance learning and teaching outcomes for all learners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oftentimes, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) students feel unwelcome because of the lack of learner-centered teaching practices in classrooms and libraries (ABLE Research Consultants & BCcampus, 2020). This negatively impacts student achievement and learning. At the University of Victoria, as librarians of color and as immigrants to Canada, we have witnessed barriers that conventional Western educational approaches posed to students from equity deserving groups. This toolkit was created by focusing on the results from focus group interviews, which can be found in our article, titled \u201cListening to diverse voices: inclusive pedagogy and culturally responsive teaching for library interactions\u201d <\/span>(Gupta et al., 2023)<\/span><\/a>. These interviews highlighted the specific challenges faced by BIPOC students in academic settings and informed the development of the toolkit. Our goal is not only to provide librarians, faculty, and staff with an opportunity to assess their current instructional practices and interactions through self-reflection but also to help colleagues identify and review their biases, assumptions, and cultural perceptions in order to discern potential barriers for students. We want this toolkit to be central to the learning and development of inclusive strategies to support the broader work of decolonization by incorporating culturally responsive and inclusive pedagogies and by using principles of anti-racism and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).<\/span><\/p>\n

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The purpose of this toolkit is to offer practical approaches to incorporate culturally responsive teaching and inclusive pedagogies into instructional methods and student interactions to build towards equity in education. Designed for use by library professionals, instructors and staff with teaching roles and those providing services to students, the toolkit aims to enrich the learning experiences of all students by:<\/span><\/p>\n