1. Concept, Content, and Design.
We help your team re-evaluate the very foundation of your modules/ content. This includes ensuring equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are embedded directly into learning outcomes. Our service guides leaders to reflect multiple perspectives from diverse cultures and address the "hidden curriculum" that often persists in traditional disciplines. By challenging normative disciplinary attitudes and involving students in co-creating the curricula, we ensure the content is relevant to a globalised student body.
2. Teaching and Learning Delivery.
Inclusion is an active process. The ICFI assesses the extent to which teaching approaches are accessible to all learners and encourages the active participation of every student. Our support helps staff avoid cultural assumptions by contextualising idioms and Eurocentric references, while providing a diverse range of case studies and materials. We also emphasise the importance of providing opportunities for students to relate course content to their own lived experiences.
3. Assessment and Feedback.
Traditional assessment methods can often create unintended barriers. The ICFI© help schools implement a range of assessment approaches that are understood by different types of learners. We advocate for flexible feedback options that meet diverse needs and provide students with genuine choices in their assessment tasks. This ensures that every learner has the opportunity to reflect and act upon the feedback they receive.
4. The Power of Reflexivity.
The final pillar of our framework is reflexivity. We support module teams in addressing their own cultural assumptions and "unconscious biases" during the design and delivery process. Crucially, our service helps leaders monitor differential attainment among various groups of learners and ensures that students from diverse backgrounds are meaningfully involved in the review and evaluation of their courses.
