Event Title
Deconstructing Cultural and Social Norms in the Classroom
Location
Hart 115
Start Time
13-5-2010 9:55 AM
End Time
13-5-2010 9:55 AM
Description
BSC’s strategic priorities emphasize our commitment to “achieving a heightened appreciation of social responsibility.” One way we can do this in the classroom is to raise, investigate, and potentially deconstruct unexamined and often limiting social and cultural norms. In this roundtable, presenters will share specific classroom and scholarly practices that encourage students to grapple with these complex issues. Informed by multidisciplinary perspectives, the presenters will discuss strategies for using films about racial conflict to critique white ways of seeing; strategies for teaching the idea that race, including “whiteness,” is a historically specific social construction; the use of literary texts to prompt reflection on constructions of gender, sexuality and race; and teaching students to critically examine and utilize their own power/privilege in a range of professions.
Deconstructing Cultural and Social Norms in the Classroom
Hart 115
BSC’s strategic priorities emphasize our commitment to “achieving a heightened appreciation of social responsibility.” One way we can do this in the classroom is to raise, investigate, and potentially deconstruct unexamined and often limiting social and cultural norms. In this roundtable, presenters will share specific classroom and scholarly practices that encourage students to grapple with these complex issues. Informed by multidisciplinary perspectives, the presenters will discuss strategies for using films about racial conflict to critique white ways of seeing; strategies for teaching the idea that race, including “whiteness,” is a historically specific social construction; the use of literary texts to prompt reflection on constructions of gender, sexuality and race; and teaching students to critically examine and utilize their own power/privilege in a range of professions.
Comments
Moderator: Michelle Cox