Build a strong foundation in TEI by learning its core structure, syntax, and key elements.

Explore how text encoding reflects systems of power and how critical approaches can challenge biases in metadata and markup.

Uncover colonial legacies in encoding practices and implement ethical frameworks for attribution, consent, and cultural specificity.

Interrogate editorial neutrality, embrace relational responsibility, and center community protocols in your encoding decisions.

Develop strategies for addressing racial bias, linguistic marginalization, and whitewashed textual representations in TEI.

Address linguistic injustice by encoding diverse, non-standard, and community-centered languages in respectful and effective ways.

Apply queer theory to encoding practices by exploring fluidity, nonlinear narratives, and resistance to binary structures.

Center disabled and neurodivergent experiences in encoding through principles of care, multimodality, and temporal disruption.

Learn to represent polyvocal, performative, and evolving texts that defy traditional textual boundaries and require ethical flexibility.

Design inclusive, multimodal, and critical pedagogy strategies using TEI as a tool for close reading, authorship, and data ethics.

Shift from single-author control to collective responsibility through equitable workflows and shared encoding practices.

Translate encoded data into stories, visualizations, and public-facing scholarship while attending to ethical data practices.