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2019 Annual Conference

October 8–11, 2019

St. Louis, MO

Adult Developmental Thinking and Leadership that Obstruct ADOS Restorative Justice

Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 4:05 PM–4:50 PM CDT
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Adult Development

Presentation Format Requested

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

Session Abstract

Attendees will examine types of developmental thinking among adults who lead other adults in educational settings.  Empirical data explores the lived experiences of American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) pursuing restorative justice in America.  Emerging political discourse surrounding reparations for ADOS positions itself succinctly under the field’s traditional attention to praxis.

Target Audience

Participants will examine educational administration, policies, and adult leadership through a cognitive-structural Spiral Dynamic Theory (SDT) lens.  Members will deconstruct memetic worldviews and unconscious value systems that are resistant to change and promote anti-blackness.  Damaging tropes seeded in oppression will be identified for strategies of social inoculation or cultural atrophy. Invitees are school and university leaders, engaged scholars, and community activists. Persons concerned with alarming trends of wealth calcification and opportunity lock-out (Hamilton & Darity, 2017) should attend.

Hamilton, D. & Darity, S. (2017). The political economy of education, financial literacy, and the racial wealth gap. Review, 99(1), pp. 59-76.

Learning Outcomes

Connecting the history of mass public and adult education to nation-building and democracy

Understand the linear correlation between slavery and contemporary ADOS poverty

Using SDT as a praxis instrument for leadership assessment, organization development, and conflict resolution

Compare and contrast trends in automation and technology to the self-efficacy goals of adult learners

Understand the emotional and spiritual complexity of financial literacy among monied and unmonied racial groups

Learn the mechanics of memetic evolution and its operationalization via public policy and educational administration

Discuss how ideologies of academic capitalism disrupt higher education in its role as an emissary of public good

Session Description

Adults seek to expand their workforce skills and marketability through advanced education and training ranging from working to professional-classes.  Advancements in automation require, at a minimum, basic technical skills that have shifted the types of jobs available to adults and the competency needed in order to lead them in the workforce.  Emergent realities are often made arduous due to the influence of discrimination, racism, and anti-blackness that thwarts access to socioeconomic mobility. Particular groups of Americans—to this day—struggle to negotiate the burdensome legacy of slavery and race-based structural impediments that contributed to creating a caste-system of poverty were ADOS remain on the bottom.  The greatest family wealth transfer in history occurring between baby-boomers to their offspring presents a precarious projection for the economic survival of ADOS communities.  Minus efforts to introduce restorative justice in the form of reparations; ADOS blacks remain in peril.  Corrective governmental mechanisms are needed in order to remit a debt owed to the descendants of those forced to provide free-labor as chattel. Jim Crow, black codes, past redlining in the form of de jure and de facto housing discrimination, substandard schooling, and disproportionately low-wages have kept ADOS citizens locked out of generational wealth creation.

Format & Technique

This will be an interactive teaching and learning session where the empirical data from the author’s pilot study and participant feedback will be considered for evaluation. Members in the session will have the opportunity to respond to the presentation of the research and then engage in praxis through case study scenario prompts.  The intent is to critically examine both public and private sector institutions (e.g., business, education, family, etc…) that impact the creation of personal wealth and agency for ADOS.  Lastly, a utilization-focused bullet point outline will be drafted as a first steps action plan for genuine reflection-in-action community engagement.

Primary Presenter

Lisa Rochelle Brown, Ph.D., Ursuline College/Columbus City Schools
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