The first thing is to be made aware. But before that, you have to critically reflect on your own social positionality and your own understandings. One piece of advice I have for faculty is to find critical mass in their departments. And then teaching science for social justice, for me, it's really important. It's something that I'm working on right now with some colleagues.
Tatiane Russo-Tait shares about equity and social justice in STEM education on episode 471 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
My dad told me that I needed to get my education and that education is the only path to liberation for folks like us.
-Tatiane Russo-Tait
I almost dropped out.
-Tatiane Russo-Tait
I was thinking about teaching so that I could be a role model and disrupt classroom spaces to be more welcoming and supportive.
-Tatiane Russo-Tait