Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies

Author:   Regine Criser ,  Ervin Malakaj
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
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9783030343415


Pages:   366
Publication Date:   14 February 2020
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This book presents an approach to transform German Studies by augmenting its core values with a social justice mission rooted in Cultural Studies. ​German Studies is approaching a pivotal moment. On the one hand, the discipline is shrinking as programs face budget cuts. This enrollment decline is immediately tied to the effects following a debilitating scrutiny the discipline has received as a result of its perceived worth in light of local, regional, and national pressures to articulate the value of the humanities in the language of student professionalization. On the other hand, German Studies struggles to articulate how the study of cultural, social, and political developments in the German-speaking world can serve increasingly heterogeneous student learners. This book addresses this tension through questions of access to German Studies as they relate to student outreach and program advocacy alongside pedagogical models.        

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Author:   Regine Criser ,  Ervin Malakaj
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.781kg
ISBN:  

9783030343415


ISBN 10:   3030343413
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   14 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction: Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies.- 2. Accounting for our Settler Colonialism: Towards an Unsettled German Studies in the United States.- 3. Habits of Mind, Habits of Heart: Cultivating Humanity through a Decolonized German Studies Curriculum.- 4. Social Justice in the Language Curriculum: Interrogating the Goals and Outcomes of Language Education in College.- 5.  Decolonizing German Studies While Dissecting Race in the American Classroom.- 6. Documents of Colonialism and Racial Theorizing in the German Classroom.- 7. Decolonizing the Mental Lexicon: Critical Whiteness Studies Perspectives in the Language Classroom.- 8. A Developmental Model of Intercultural Competence: Scaffolding the Shift from Culture-Specific to Culture-General.- 9. Study Abroad Otherwise.- 10. A Question of Inclusion: Intercultural Competence, Systematic Racism, and the North American German Classroom.- 11. Supporting Graduate Students of Color in German Studies: A Syllabus.- 12. Digital Media Network Projects: Classroom Inclusivity through a Symphilosophical Approach.- 13. Disrupting the Norm: Disability, Access, and Inclusion in the German Language Classroom.- 14. Multidirectional Memory as Decolonial Pedagogical Practice in German Studies.- 15. “Please Don’t Gender Me!” Strategies for Inclusive Language Instruction in a Gender-Diverse Campus Community.- 16. Intersectionality and Notions of Diversity in the Internationalized German Studies Program at the University of Melbourne.- 17.   Dear Incoming Graduate Student Colleague.               

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Regine Criser is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of North Carolina Asheville, USA, where she also serves as the coordinator of the First Year Seminars and the Director of the UNCA Prison Education Program. She is a co-founder of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum (DDGC) scholarly collective. Her research focuses on cultural representations of the GDR in contemporary Germany, inclusive pedagogy, and conceptualizations of belonging.  Ervin Malakaj is Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is a co-founder of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum (DDGC) scholarly collective. He specializes in late-18th- to 21st-century German media and cultural history. His research focuses on 19th-century literary cultures, film history, narrative theory, queer theory, and critical pedagogy.     

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