Perspectives against Racism: Educational and Socialization Efforts at the Departmental Level

Autor/inn/en	Souza-Smith, Flavia M.; Albrechet-Souza, Lucas; Avegno, Elizabeth M.; Ball, Chloe D.; Ferguson, Tekeda F.; Harrison-Bernard, Lisa M.; Molina, Patricia E.
Titel	Perspectives against Racism: Educational and Socialization Efforts at the Departmental Level
Quelle	In: Advances in Physiology Education, 45 (2021) 4, S.720-729 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Souza-Smith, Flavia M.) ORCID (Albrechet-Souza, Lucas) ORCID (Avegno, Elizabeth M.) ORCID (Molina, Patricia E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1043-4046
Schlagwörter	Racial Bias; Socialization; Social Justice; Graduate Students; Elective Courses; Seminars + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Elective course; Wahlkurs; Seminar
Abstract	The current heightened social awareness and anxiety triggered by escalating violence against Black Americans in the United States demands a safe space for reflection, education, and civil discourse within the academic setting. Too often there is an unmet need paired with a collective urgent desire to better understand the chronic existing structural, social, educational, and health inequities affecting disadvantaged populations, particularly Black Americans. In this perspective, the authors provide insight into a shared learning approach that provided a forum to discuss Perspectives Against Racism (PAR). Unlike existing top-down approaches, faculty, trainees, and staff were engaged in leading a series of focused discussions to examine unconscious bias, promote awareness of implicit biases, and reflect on individual and collective roles and responsibilities in working toward becoming antiracist. An existing 1-h graduate elective seminar course was dedicated to creating a space for learning, discussion, and exchange of ideas related to the experience and existence of racism (personal and institutional/systemic). A goal of each session was to go beyond didactics and identify mechanisms to implement change, at the level of the individual, department, and institution. This perspective of the shared experience may provide an adaptable framework that can be implemented in an academic setting at the departmental, center, or institutional level. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01