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Teaching ADEI in Taiwan

Accessibility, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Cultural Sector

ISBN: 978-1-83753-035-9, eISBN: 978-1-83753-034-2

Publication date: 20 August 2024

Abstract

In 2021, Dr Shang-Ying Chen, chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at National Sun Yat-sen University, invited me to teach in Taiwan for the 2022 academic year. I taught six 16- to 18-week courses, including creativity, marketing, theater management, and research methods, to 100 undergraduate and graduate college students in English.

As a published sociologist and practitioner of accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI), I seek to center ADEI in every aspect of my own life, which includes my teaching. My chapter “Teaching ADEI in Taiwan” is an autoethnographic study, utilizing participant observation in documenting the ways in which inclusive pedagogies of ADEI impact teaching and learning in Taiwan. As a Jewish white English-speaking researcher-teacher, I also interrogate my own racial awareness and the impact it has on my efforts to provide my Taiwanese students with an education that is culturally responsive. ¹

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Acknowledgment

I would like to thank Shang-Ying Chen, PhD, chair, Department of Theatre Arts, National Sun Yat-sen University for granting me the opportunity to teach and practice ADEI in the classroom with 100 undergraduate and graduate students over the course of the 2022 academic year.

Citation

Stein, T.S. (2024), "Teaching ADEI in Taiwan", Bérubé, J., Dioh, M.-L. and Cuyler, A.C. (Ed.) Accessibility, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Cultural Sector, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 229-242. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-034-220241034

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Emerald Publishing Limited