Social Justice: Equity and Diversity Course OERs
In my role at a college academic library, I get to help faculty find OERs (and other open access and/or library resources) to use in their courses. One particular faculty member requested sources for their Social Justice: Equity and Diversity course – a broad subject. The faculty member listed four learning outcomes for their course. I highlighted key words/concepts from these learning outcomes to aid me in my search, these included:
- historical and current social change and advocacy;
- anti-oppressive, trauma-informed framework;
- intergenerational trauma;
- addictions and mental health;
- comparison of health care systems in Canada;
- systemic inequalities.
These learning outcomes gave me quite a few search terms to work with. Using various referatories and repositories, such as OASIS, eCampusOntario Open Library, OER Commons, Pressbooks Directory, OpenStax, BC Open Textbook Collection, McMaster OER by Discipline Guide, LibreTexts, and advanced Google searches, I was able to find resources that fulfilled each learning outcome; here’s a small sampling of what I’ve found:
- Trauma-Informed Care: A Sociological Perspective. This public domain resource was located using LibreTexts. Since trauma-informed care appears to be a rather large component in how the faculty member is approaching the course, students will need a strong, introduction to the subject, which this source provides. This source also checks the boxes of addictions and mental health, systemic inequalities, and intergenerational trauma.
- Introduction to Sociology – 2nd Canadian Edition (CC-BY). This source was located through the BC Open Textbook Collection and was selected for its Canadian content. I also selected this resource as it covers topics such as social inequality in Canada and globally; race and ethnicity; gender, sex, and sexuality; government and politics; population, urbanization, and the environment; and social movement and social change from a sociological perspective. Many of the chapters of this OER textbook cover systemic equalities and others give a view of current and historical social change and issues, making this a potentially great resource for the faculty member’s course.
- Theories and Biological Basis of Addiction (CC-BY-NC). This source was located using OER Commons and provides a historical American perspective on addiction, including policy responses; biological models of addiction; psychological theories of addiction; social context theories; prevention, vulnerability, risk resilience, and protection theories. This resource was primarily selected for these theories of addiction.
- The Intergenerational Effects of Indian Residential Schools: Implications for the Concept of Historical Trauma (CC-BY). This source is an open-access article that I found using an advanced Google search that applies some theory about intergenerational trauma and applies it to present-day issues, like the effects of Indian Residential Schools in Canada. I hope this resource could be used as a case study within the course.
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