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Before You Begin that Courageous Conversation on Racism, Go To Your Corners: Affinity Groups and Intragroup Dialogues
Type of Presentation
Workshop (60-75 minutes)
Session Abstract
Session will showcase the utilization of affinity groups with intragroup dialogues, as a precursor to the intergroup dialogues, on issues of race, power, and oppression.
Target Audience
Professors, administrators, and students of adult, higher, community, and continuing education. Human Resources Managers, Business Traininers, Consultants on Workplace and Cultural Diversity.
Learning Outcomes
Describe and discuss strategies that will link Cultural Identities, Racism/Oppression, and Community as participants engage in the affinity group experience.
Identify, review, and analyze curricula that guide educators, step by step, through the dynamics of designing and facilitating the affinity group experience in their own academic milieu.
Share and discuss interactive activities to share, showcase, and publish the transformative revelations of our common racial identity development journey.
Session Description
Racism is a word that breeds terror in the hearts of many majority culture members. Often, racism, is interpreted as individual acts rather than systems and policies that disadvantage a culture group. The challenge with intergroup dialogue on racism and oppression is the reality of the hermeneutic spiraling through the racial identity development model (nonlinear movement on the continuum). The expectation is that utilization of the appropriate pedagogical model will result in all learners coming to the same understanding at the end of the intervention. That is not the case in dialogues on racism and oppression. However, using the hermeneutic model and the idea of the “wicked problem (Horst & Melvin, 1973),” we cannot simultaneously come to the same understanding. Negative attitudes suppress courageous conversations on racism and oppression due to perceptions of intergroup threat, attack, and disapproval (Goff, Steele, & Davies, 2008; Riek, Mania, Gaertner, McDonald, & Lamoreaux, 2010).
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Dr. Ruby Cain, Ball State University
Work Title
Assistant Professor of Adult & Community Education; Director, M.A. Degree Programs in Adult & Community Education Program and in Executive Development for Public Service Program
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Keri Rodgers, Ball State University
Work Title
Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Melanie Turner, Ball State University
Work Title
Graduate Student
Gerald Chatman, Ball State University
Work Title
Graduate Student