Course Handouts and Other Items of Interest

These items are required reading for the course or are resources you need for this course.

Course Grade Tally Sheet Click here to download the EDC 210 course grade tally sheet in Excel spreadsheet format. You'll hand-in this document on the last day of class as a reminder of the points you earned.

_The Pygmalion Effect: Communicating High Expectations Click here to learn several practical steps you can take to overcome damaging negative expectations and to promote positive high expectations in your classroom.

_The Certainty of Memory has Its Day in Court -- This New York Times article briefly introduces many of the key concepts we discuss in this class relating to social perception, impression formation, memory, and the fallibility of these cognitive processes.

_The Psychology of Genre -- This NYT opinion article details the pervasiveness of our need to categorize what we experience. Categorizing (and as a result, stereotyping) is not a defect or moral problem: it's the way we think and organize the workld.

_Learning Log Guide (form and instructions for preparing your course Learning Log.)

_-ISM Video Scoring Rubric The -ism group members will complete the rubric and hand in to the instructor on the day the video is presented.

_Questions on Beals, Fadiman, Johnson, and Loewen Books

_More Information on SQW3R:  An excellent strategy for reading and preparing your learning notes is the SQW3R strategy. Click here to learn more.

_Notes/overheads from lecture/discussion on "Social Perception."

• (Note: If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint, a free PowerPoint reader may be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/. Search for "PowerPoint reader")

_Notes/overheads from lecture/discussion on "Attribution."

  Notes/overheads from lecture/discussion on "The Self."

  Notes/overheads from lecture/discussion on "Teaching Strategies and Personal Strategies."

Recommended Materials:

• Don't miss "The Monkey Business Illusion" video and many others on The Invisible Gorilla's co-author Daniel Simmon's YouTube Page!

_Course Definitions -- Definitions of common terms used in diversity/human relations studies.

_Diversity Makes You Brighter -- According to research discussed in this recent New York Times article, "(d)iversity improves the way people think. By disrupting conformity, racial and ethnic diversity prompts people to scrutinize facts, think more deeply and develop their own opinions."

_To move forward, black youth must be seen as part of 'we,' not as 'you' -- Article describing the gulf that remains between minorities and the dominant culture and how to overcome this alienation.

_Our Vision is So 15-seconds Ago: Here's a very interesting article highlighting the sometime surprising findings about the paradoxical discrepancies between what we see and what we think we see. Vision is not photographic, not by a long shot!

_Origin of the term "Jim Crow" and a history of "Jim Crow" laws

_Who was Rosa Parks and for what is she known? (Hint: it's not necessarily for what most people think!)

_Minneapolis gaps? Face the truth, it's racism. (A recent opnion piece discussing different types of racism at play in the achievement gap.)

_Diversity IQ Quiz--Click here to take an on-line diversity IQ quiz--find out your diversity quotient.

_Experiential Learning Cycle Graphic

  The Eight Questions These eight questions discussed in the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down illustrate the importance of culture and our expectations in forming the way we see the world.

 Regression Towards the Mean -- A useful concept in understanding why people believe the common misunderstanding that rebukes improve performance and praise seems to backfire. This concept was discussed in class in reference to why many people mis-apply behavioral techniques. The original article Judgment in Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases is also helpful in understanding many common fallicies used (and misused) in daily decision-making.

_Notes on "The Road to Brown" video

_Review questions for "A Friendly Game" video

 Pygmalion in Management  (A teacher's expectations are the key to performance and development. This classic Harvard Business Review article by former Harvard Business School faculty member J. Sterling Livingston reviews the key elements of this theory and updates his earlier classic article with recent developments in the field. This link is to an on line version of the article for which you will need to log in using your AugNet user name and password.)

_The parable of "Dumb-Ups, Smart Downs" from Robert W. Terry  |   Discussion of this parable from the blog "Stuff White People Do."

 Your Brain on Culture: The burgeoning field of cultural neuroscience is finding that culture influences brain development, and perhaps vice versa.

 The Unhappy White Majority (Over the past decade, we've seen a rising tide of aggrieved white folks. This doesn't bode well. When even the majority group sees itself in a struggle for status and respect, it erodes any notion of the collective good.)

 Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice  Several recent studies have found that having a roommate of a different race can reduce prejudice, but such relationships are more stressful.

 Minnesota's Promise  What are the elements of a truly "World Class" education system. This website, developed for educators and policy-makers, looks at the state of Minnesota schools and describes a framework for closing the achievement gap and guiding future education policy decisions in Minnesota.

 Tolerance Over Race Can Spread, Studies Find  Recent studies suggest that one-on-one contact, under the right conditions, can lead to racial tolerance, and that this tolerance can spread within the community.

 Race is an Unscientific Concept, Experts Say  The more closely researchers look at the human genome, the more it becomes apparent that the definition of race that most of us hold is unsubstantiated.

 The Subtle Racism Around Us (even in a cup of coffee): The labels we choose can speak volumes -- and even say things we didn't intend.

 Children Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC) -- Educational Disparities Website. This site includes a link to a broad developmental and ecological model of family development called "Circles of Influence."

 Multicultural Experience Enhances Creativity: The When and How  (PDF file of an American Psychologist article by Leung et al. discussing the conditions in which multicultural experience enhances personal creativity.)

_Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (Website discussing towns in the U.S. [including Edina, Minnesota] where literally or figuratively, the towns maintain their segregation by saying to nonwhites, "Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On You In ___ ." by James W. Loewen, author of Lies my teacher told me.) Also, here's a link to a recent StarTribune article highlighting Minnesota "sundown towns."

_When Language Can Hold the Answer (A New York Times article discussing recent research on the role of language on perception. This research expands the discussion we had in class about this topic.)

_In Professor's Model, Diversity Equals Productivity (New York Times conversation with Scott E. Page discussing the impact of diversity on productivity)

_Putting Your Best Cyberface Forward (article by New York Times reporter Stephanie Rosenbloom discussing today's cyber version of impression management.)

 Acts of Microaggression (article by Jessoca Triano discussing below-the-radar racism in day-to-day social interractions.)

 Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid (article by Jonathan Kozol, Harper's Magazine.)

 Together, apart: A dissection of diversity (editorial by LA Times writer Gregory Rodriguez.)

_Brief list of resources from diversity educator Carl Grant

_Oscar Arredondo's "A Mile in My Moccasins: A portrait of Indian images by Minnesota-based Aztec artist Oscar Arredondo

_Famous photo of Rosa Parks on a bus in Mongomery, Ala. in 1956 (Was Rosa Parks just a "tired seamstress," or is there more to the story? Who is the guy in the background? Why did photographers just happen to be on this bus?)

_The Building Blocks of Memory by Daniel L. Schacter (a newspaper article which reviews the basic elements of human memory)

_Breaking the Prejudice Habit by Patricia G. Devine (a transcript of a speech in which she reviews the latest research findings on prejudice processes)

_Comparing Cultural Norms and Values

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