An Instructor’s Guide to Understanding Privilege

By Philip Michael Abdoo
September 23, 2020

The resource guide on this page can be used as a primer for instructors to better understand and attend to the ways privilege operates in the classroom. This downloadable resource guide is broken up into four sections:

1) Introduction to Privilege
2) Why Talking About and Acknowledging Privilege is Difficult
3) Privilege in the Classroom
4) Further Reading on Specific Kinds of Privilege

  • To explain what privilege is and is not and why it matters.
  • To familiarize instructors with why privilege is challenging to engage with and to help them work through those challenges both personally and with their students.
  • To assist instructors in recognizing and addressing the way privilege impacts their classroom.


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