Linguistic Justice Learning Community Online
This virtual, biweekly meeting for the Linguistic Justice Learning Community examines how language, power, and identity shape teaching and learning in higher education. Regular participation throughout the Fall 2025 semester is strongly encouraged. Through interdisciplinary readings, discussions, and shared practices, this learning community will examine strategies for fostering inclusive linguistic environments that honor students’ full linguistic repertoires. Open to educators across all disciplines.
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Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will be able to:
- Understand Linguistic Justice: Define key terms (e.g., linguistic justice, MAE) and examine how language, identity, and power intersect in education
- Analyze Language and Power: Analyze how language norms shape access, equity, and student experiences in higher education
- Build Critical Language Awareness: Reflect on how classroom and institutional practices reinforce linguistic inequity and bias
- Uplift Linguistic Justice Practices: Identify ways to recognize and incorporate linguistic justice in teaching
- Apply Across Disciplines: Discuss how linguistic justice can look different across academic fields and teaching contexts
- Date:
- Friday, November 21, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://msu.zoom.us/j/94897916910
- Audience:
- Educator Network Future Faculty In-Class Educators
- Categories:
- Community of Practice DEIB & Student Success Designing Courses Educator Networking External Partners Interdisciplinary Learning Online Session
About the Learning Community:
Language, which is deeply tied to identity, is central to teaching and learning. Yet, educational policies and practices often privilege Mainstream, “standard academic” American English while systematically devaluing diverse linguistic identities. This OFASD-sponsored learning community invites educators to critically engage with the principles of linguistic justice (Baker-Bell), examining how language intersects with power, identity, and equity in the classroom and curricula. In higher education, linguistic justice calls for pedagogical and institutional shifts that affirm diverse linguistic identities, challenge language-based discrimination, and create spaces where students can fully engage in learning without being penalized for their linguistic backgrounds. Through interdisciplinary readings, discussion, and shared practices, participants will examine strategies for fostering inclusive linguistic environments that honor students’ full linguistic repertoires. This community offers a collaborative space to reflect, learn, and implement pedagogical approaches that advance linguistic justice in higher education and is open to educators across all disciplines. By the end of the year-long learning community, participants will collaboratively compose a tangible toolkit creation that is focused on interdisciplinary implementation of linguistic justice.
Register at this link to join us!