RESOURCES and LESSONS for TEACHING ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE - especially race, ethnicity, and culture.
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I teach several courses under the broad topic of "Multicultural Education," prioritizing social justice issues of access, power/privilege, & narrowing the academic achievement gap. I am a person of color and I almost always have a white co-teacher. We include topics, such as: racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, ethnocentrism, deculturalization, transforming curriculum, etc. This is a place where I post information that we teach; lesson plans for activities; and resources we use and/or which are shared with me by my adult students.
Friday, January 10, 2014
John F. Dovidio speaks about Inclusion and Exclusion
John Dovidio does research on race relations - he calls his work Aversive Racism. You may be more familiar with other words for it, like, Modern Forms of Racism or Passive/Covert Racism or even Implicit Racism. It is beyond the current micro-aggression work done by Sue and Sue for Asian Americans and replicated by other researchers for different populations.
He says that doing cultural awareness "celebrations" and activities make everyone "feel good" and not notice that there is still a problem so no change happens. Cognitive dissonance is necessary in order for change to happen.
I saw him in person where he spoke of the research.
