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Bias/Perspective
This section is focused on the concepts of Bias/Perspective, navigable by level of proficiency:
- Beginner: "Differentiate between the types of bias."
- Intermediate: "Engage in self-reflection and dialogue on one’s implicit/explicit biases."
- Advanced: "Constructively responding to bias in an equitable manner."
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Bias Resources
From Domains/Dimensions Related to Diversity:
Students will be able to differentiate between implicit bias and stereotypes. Students will also be able to define terms like microaggressions, implicit bias, and stereotypes
- How microaggressions are like mosquito bites
from Same Difference, Fusion Comedy - Understanding Unconscious Bias and Unintentional Racism
Moule, Jean (2009), Phi Delta Kappan 90(5): 320-326 - The Lunch Datefrom SpringboardSchools
- Does Unconscious Racism Exist?Quillian, Lincoln (2008), Social Psychology Quarterly 71(1): 6-11
- Your Stereotypical Life Story
from the Safe Zone Project - Women Make Historyfrom Teaching for Change (2017)
- Confirmation and Other Biasesfrom Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age, Facing History and Ourselves
From Domains/Dimensions Related to Diversity:
Students will critically examine one’s own biases, including both cultural biases and implicit biases, and will recognize that bias can manifest through attitudes and actions. They will also develop their own perspective and philosophy about DSJ, and how it applies to their personal and professional growth in concert with community.
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible KnapsackMcIntosh, Peggy (1990)
- I Grew Up in the Westboro Baptist Church: Here's Why I LeftPhelps-Roper, Megan (2017), TED Talk
- Don't Cancel Your Class!
from The Brook Center for Empowerment and Wellbeing - Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now LosingNorton, Michael I. & Sommers, Samuel R. (2011), Perspectives on Psychological Science 6(3): 215-218
- ‘When saying you care is not really caring’: emotions of disgust, whiteness ideology, and teacher educationMatias, Cheryl E. & Zembylas, Michalinos (2014), Critical Studies in Education 55(3): 319-337
- Complicating “White Privilege”: Race, Poverty, and the Nature of the KnapsackGorski, Paul C. (2012)
- Your Stereotypical Life Storyfrom the Safe Zone Project
- Reflection: What’s Your FRAME?from Teaching Tolerance
- Implicit Association Test (IAT)from Project Implicit, Harvard
- Dialogue Zone in the Roesch LibraryProvides facilitation assistance for faculty, staff, and students. Programming for capacity-building in dialogue and strengthening awareness of dialogue and its uses in the local community and the world at large also available.
- Intergroup dialogue: Deliberative democracy in school, college, community, and workplace
Schoem, David & Hurtado, Sylvia (eds.) (2001), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (OhioLINK record).
From Domains/Dimensions Related to Diversity:
Students will be able to demonstrate techniques and utilize tools to interrupt micro-aggressions and bias behaviors that adversely impact under-represented communities, and embody ally practices.
- What Can We Do?: Becoming Part of the Solution
Johnson, Allan G. (2013) - The Cycle of LiberationHarro, Bobbie (2000)
- Road to reconciliation: ex-IRA members and British soldiers come face to faceCobain, Ian (2015), from The Guardian
- Don't Cancel Your Class!from The Brook Center for Empowerment and Wellbeing
- Resistance 101: A Lesson on Social Justice Activists and StrategiesMenkart, Deborah & Acosta, Allison (2018), from Teaching for Change.
