Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies

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.       

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 GermanClassroom.- 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.  
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