Equity Team

What is the Equity Team?

The Equity Team is a Language Campus initiative that brings together almost 60 members from KiVi (Department of Language and Communication Studies), Solki (Centre for Applied Language Studies), KTL (Finnish Institute for Educational Research), Movi (The Centre for Multilingual Academic Communication), and OKL (The Department of Teacher Education). The Equity Team also actively collaborates with Kantti (Gender research network at JYU) and the FORTHEM network.

We are members of the JYU community from across the different units/departments of the Language Campus who are interested in working on issues related to equity, social justice, language, communication, and/or education. We meet as a big group about once a month and have small group meetings in between as needed. We organize events, workshops, initiatives and learning groups for ourselves, our colleagues, and the whole Language Campus/JYU community. Currently, the following questions keep us busy:

• How can our workplace become more inclusive and welcoming of diversity?
• What does culturally and linguistically sustaining/relevant teaching look like in our contexts?
• What is institutional racism, how does it show on our campus, and what can we do to challenge it?
• What is intersectionality and how can we account for it into our work?
• How can we diversify our community?
• How can we work in ways that are sustainable and equitable?
• … and many more …

We strive to accommodate different schedules and linguistic practices to create a welcoming atmosphere for our work. For more information, please contact Johanna Ennser-Kananen at johanna.f.ennser-kananen@jyu.fi.