Transforming institutional cultures and teaching practices – the impact of SEED Next year, we’ll be the first university in the UK to run SEED – a ground-breaking series of workshops exploring the inclusive curriculum. Facilitated by Dr Rachel van Duyvenbode from the School of English, the workshops will take place across the Spring semester with contributions from national speakers and students. Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) is Americas largest peer-led diversity programme and has been working with universities, schools and communities for 28 years to promote change and build capacity for more inclusive curricula and classrooms. Our Sheffield SEED programme will be the first of its kind in the country. The series of two-hour workshops will look at a wide range of issues related to equality, diversity, inclusion, curricula and educational systems. These sessions will balance reflective content with group dialogue, and aim to stimulate and support you in your work for change. Dr Rachel van Duyvenbode said: SEED provides an opportunity to embed the University’s equality and diversity strategy at the grass roots. “The programme is about supporting staff in the already excellent work they do in equality and diversity; it’s a unique space to reflect on our position as teachers and professionals, the way in which we review our approaches to teaching and learning, and the content of our curriculum. “The workshops will balance reflective learning with contemporary scholarship and we will explore how we might enable students to find windows and mirrors to their own lived diversity in the curriculum. “I’d encourage anyone with an interest in widening inclusivity in teaching and learning and facilitating change to submit an expression of interest – that’s both academics who deliver teaching and learning, and professional colleagues who support it. Malaka Shwaikh, Students’ Union Education Officer, said: The SEED project is really exciting. Since meeting with Rachel a few weeks ago, Im so impressed by the project and how diverse its contents are. I feel so passionate about widening participation, which is already a policy that our University and Students’ Union have. More work is needed to implement it, and hopefully this is what SEED will do.”
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