Contextualizing Race in Education in the United States

In this module, you will explore who you are and how you share your identity as well as understand the identity of those around you. Along with reviewing your Implicit Bias results and learning how implicit bias can sometimes work to produce inequitable treatment, you will also be able to reflect on your own social location and how power and privilege work to craft educational norms.

After this session students will be able to:

• Define key vocabulary:
  • Anti-bias
  • Implicit Bias
  • Social Location
  • Microaggressions
• Familiarize themselves with the key tenets of anti-bias
• Identify where one fits in different contexts of power and privilege and socio-political consciousness
• Examine ways bias shows up and how to confront it when it does