Inclusion in the Library: Monash University’s Inclusive Teaching Toolkit

Inclusion in the Library: Monash University’s Inclusive Teaching Toolkit

librarianship; social inclusion; education

Monash University Library aims to create a safe and inclusive environment for all students, and to deliver accessible research and learning services. To achieve this aim, we developed a new initiative, the Inclusive Teaching Toolkit for library staff (https://www.monash.edu/library/inclusive-teaching) - a dynamic and interactive online tool informed by Universal Design for Learning. Arranged around six broad principles, the Toolkit draws on existing University guidelines, the literature on inclusive teaching in higher education, and data gathered in 2017 from focus group interviews with library staff. The Toolkit provides practical guidelines about inclusion in an academic library, and its structure highlights the intersectional (Crenshaw, 1989) nature of the suggested practices. The initiative is in an early phase; we are in the process of developing and delivering peer learning sessions that use the Toolkit to facilitate discussions among staff about inclusion.

Lenise Prater, Susannah Phillips, Homa Babai, Zachary Kendal

Paper presented and published at the 2019 STARS (Students Transitions Achievement Retention & Success) conference, held in Melbourne on 7-10 July 2019.

STARS

8 July 2019

© 2019, Lenise Prater, Susie Phillips, Homa Babai Shishavan, Zachary Kendal

Inclusive Teaching Toolkit, Monash University Library
 
STARS 2019 conference program

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Conference paper