Professional Documents
Culture Documents
OVERVIEW
Oppression in higher education Recognizing rituals and biases in daily life Evaluating core values and their influences on our interactions Promoting inclusivity through rituals and core values Interrupting oppression to promote inclusivity Creating safe spaces at Orientation programs
What are possible ways a student in a college setting could experience oppression? In what ways can oppression hinder a students feeling of inclusivity or possibility for success within the schools community?
Recognize Rituals Recognize Bias What habits and rituals do Evaluate Values we Act on Values unconsciously
internalize and perpetuate?
Recognize Rituals Recognize Bias What habits and rituals do Evaluate Values How do these we internalizations Act on Values unconsciously
internalize and perpetuate? affect personal biases? How do these biases affect habits?
UNDERSTANDING RITUALS
We view, internalize, and understand actions through personal value systems. We then act based on habits and rituals we create through these values.
Action
Perpetuating Values
Internalization
Recognize Rituals Recognize Bias What habits Evaluate Values and rituals do How do these we Act on Values unconsciously internalization
Understand affect personal internalize and how core biases? perpetuate? values affect How do these the biases affect internalization action? process and personal biases.
Recognize Rituals
What habits and rituals do we unconsciously internalize and perpetuate?
Recognize Bias
How do these internalization affect personal Understand how core biases? values affect How do these the biases affect internalization action? process and personal biases.
How can your understanding of your core values be used to promote inclusivity and celebrate diversity? Thinking of these values, what habits can you create for yourself to perpetuate a cycle of understanding and inclusivity instead of a cycle of bias and oppression?
INTERRUPTING OPPRESSION
What is an oppression? Why interrupt oppressions? Strategies for interrupting oppressions:
Give them the benefit of the doubt Allow them to explain themselves Ask, What did you mean by that? or What did you mean when you said that word? Own up to personal ignorance, biases and emotions Act authentically through your own values