Marquita Walker, School of Social Work
Principal Investigator: Marquita Walker, associate professor, Department of Labor Studies, School of Social Work
Co-Principal Investigator(s): William Mello, associate professor, Department of Labor Studies, School of Social Work
Project Title: New Course: Diversity and Inequality
Funding Level: $5,000
Abstract:
This proposal seeks funding to create a new course in the Department of Labor Studies (LS), School of Social Work. The new course, entitled “Diversity and Inequity”, critically examines how economic decisions inform and limit notions of diversity and social justice. If, as a society, we have made significant strides toward acknowledging the rights of previously marginalized sectors of society, we have likewise become a society with expansive income inequality. In this way, policies fail to answer the larger question that effectively reduce poverty levels. Situated in Socio-constructivist Learning Theory (Gredler, 1997) which posits learning takes place between learners and more skilled others through the negotiation of meaning, this course has a two-fold goal: strengthen the Labor Studies’ curriculum and augment IUPUI’s efforts to implement and evaluate PLUS as we approach our campus reaccreditation in 2022.
