Examining Privilege and Oppression
This discussion-based activity guides students in understanding privilege and oppression as concepts.
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This discussion-based activity guides students in understanding privilege and oppression as concepts.
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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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Students will discuss dominant narratives – explanations or stories told in service of the dominant social group’s interests and ideologies.
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The guide offers reflective questions for instructors to explore and suggestions for appropriate ways and forums to work through the personal challenge of anti-oppressive work.
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This resource is designed to help instructors manage the challenges of difficult classroom dialogue, specifically the way some students block or divert dialogue as a defensive response to perspectives they find uncomfortable or challenging.
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This activity is designed to help students recognize common dialogue blockers, why people use them, and to become more aware of how they inhibit important conversations.
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The following content and linked resources have been curated as a primer for instructors to better understand and attend to the ways privilege operates in the classroom.
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This activity uses independent reflection and small-group discussion to guide students in understanding white privilege as a concept and recognizing the ways their relationship to whiteness benefits or disadvantages them and impacts daily life.
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