DALILA STANFIELD: Advice that I would give to educators
also planning or hoping to teach this same kind of course
material or subject would be to have somebody of the diaspora,
or somebody who can relate to the diaspora teach it.
It's important to have people of the background
or of the diaspora educating others.
Like, who better to educate than those
that have experienced it themselves,
or those that, you know, come from that area.
So I feel like that's probably the biggest
advice I would give.
I think maybe other advice would be really making
sure to create safe spaces for students
to have conversations, because I feel like we had that
in this class, and that you can have a curriculum that
can be very diverse, and like, can be very open.
But if you don't create an environment
where, like, in which students can, like, openly
speak about things and openly talk about things, like,
it's not going to matter.
And I feel like it limits the kinds of discussions you have.
And I feel like we've had a lot of great discussions
in this class because the environment has been--
it's been a safe environment, you know,
and people can voice their opinions.
And things have gotten very personal in this class
sometimes.
You know, there have been one or two instances
where students got up and left, you know,
because they were so emotional.
And so, like, yeah.
It's not, it's not just about the curriculum, too.
It's also about the space that you create.