This resource guide aims to provide instructors with both an overview of race, including its construction and historical context as well as ways to mobilize this information to have deeper interactions with others, particularly students in the classroom, around race and racism.
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This resource guide provides an overview of dialogic techniques to integrate with one’s instructional strategies and course content.
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In this activity, students imagine creating a school designed to maintain oppressive norms, considering what institutional oppression looks like and how it is perpetuated.
This activity guide is intended to serve as an example of how to engage with “perfectly logical explanations” or dominant narratives raised in classroom discussion.
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These 14 types of questions model the kinds of questions a discussion facilitator might ask students in order to prompt deeper engagement with challenging topics.
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This resource offers samples of inclusive discussion guidelines. Setting up expectations for discussion with your students at the beginning of the term can be useful in creating an environment conducive to inclusivity, lively discussion, and classroom community building.
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This resource guide provides strategies for responding to “hot moments”: the sudden eruption of tension and conflict in classroom discussion.
Students will discuss dominant narratives – explanations or stories told in service of the dominant social group’s interests and ideologies.
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This collection of activities assists instructors in developing group cohesion, thoughtful engagement, and reflective responses to challenging material.
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This short document from the Commission for Social Justice Educators gives a concise description of strategies of multipartiality in discussion facilitation as a way to challenge dominant narratives that students have internalized and tend to reproduce in the classroom.
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