In this concluding chapter, we focus on summarizing and synthesizing the thematic elements of the book. Part 1 of this volume provides useful approaches and concepts intended to guide your individual practice and experimentation with inclusive teaching practices, leaning into the key element of continuous change. Part 2 of this volume provides a wide range of inclusive teaching practices in their real-life contexts that can provide a menu of strategies that educators can begin to experiment with in their own spaces, which embodies the key element of recognizing idiosyncrasy and context. We believe one of the most powerful elements connecting all the chapters is the centering of the authors as educators and life-long learners, putting into practice a willingness to be vulnerable.

We believe that through exploring the chapters in this book, it is clear that engaging in diversity, equity, and inclusion is complex work and goes well beyond checking boxes or following a formula. Our intentions for this collective work are to set readers up for inevitable future changes: new pedagogies, sociocultural shifts, political divisions. We want readers to embrace the messiness of inclusive teaching, and utilize the guiding theories, pedagogies, and contexts presented in this volume to experiment and innovate. 

Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.36284/celelon.oa9.7