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
U
of Minn. Library Assignment Calculator
This web site assists learners in planning and organizing a large assignment such as a research paper. It helps you break down the key steps and set reasonable goals and deadlines to accomplish your objectives.