Welcome to a workshop on strategies for creating inclusive and non-discriminatory education at international Master’s programmes.

In all classrooms, students have diverse backgrounds. However, student diversity might be more obvious at international Master’s programmes, and teachers might be confronted with different kinds of dilemmas than in courses taught in Swedish. International students in the programmes offered at the Department of History—the Master's Programme in Asian Studies, the Master’s Programme in Human Rights, the Master’s Programme in Media History, and from the autumn this year also the Master’s Programme in History—have highly different educational backgrounds and thus varying experiences of teaching methods. In addition to this, different levels of familiarity with English could potentially result in hierarchies in the classroom that need to be addressed in order to ensure an inclusive classroom culture.

Taking our inspiration from the pedagogical development project “The Global Classroom”, carried out at the International Master’s Programme in Ethnic and Migration Studies at Linköping university, this workshop aims to initiate a pedagogical discussion about inclusive pedagogy across the department’s different divisions.

During the workshop, you will have the opportunity to discuss challenges that might arise in the Global Classroom. We will start with a panel discussion about dilemmas that teachers at the department’s different programs have encountered. This will be followed by discussion in small groups about ways to create an inclusive and non-discriminatory education. Together, we will make an inventory of available resources (academic publications, networks, toolkits, etc.) and of the need for further collegial learning about this topic. This could, in turn, be the basis for future pedagogical development projects.

The workshop is open for all, and we would like to encourage both students and teachers to participate and share their experiences. We would appreciate it if you sign up using this form before 8 April, so that we can arrange coffee/tea & cake for all participants.

The workshop is co-organized by the group for Diversity, Equal Opportunities and Gender Equality (JLM-gruppen), and Malin Arvidsson, senior lecturer in Human Rights Studies at Lund University.