One Hundred Steps to Fairness and Equity
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By fall 2016 the election campaign had reached a tipping point with entitlement, privilege and narcissistic behavior everywhere. There was a growing fear that our social fabric was un-raveling and documented evidence of decline.
Education Design
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One Hundred Instances of Negative Behavior based on Bias, Prejudice and Privilege
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Fall 2016 course, “NEIGHBOR-GAP-BRIDGE / Bullies, Teasers and Tormentors” is a High Impact Course, designed as a laboratory which views a student’s role as ethnographer and the college’s surrounding environment as tribe. Using pedagogical tools for observation and inquiry, students actively investigate the customs, history, attitudes and peoples – in their own backyard.
With the support of course partners including philosophy professor and best-selling author, Aaron James, “Assholes, a Theory,” and The Anti- Defamation League, Otis College students began to study the people we most needed to understand in an election environment like that of 2016: Bullies, Teasers and Tormentors.
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A research metric, with a rating scale, inspired by the Anti Defamation League’s “Pyramid of Hate” analyzes each instance. Instances range from failing to say “thank you” when someone opens the door, to cutting someone off of the freeway, to rape. According the ADL “If people or institutions treat behaviors on the lower levels as being acceptable or “normal” it results in the behaviors at the next level becoming more accepted.“
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100 Instances of Negative Behavior Based in Bias, Prejudice and Privilege on the Otis quad windows create a pathway to social justice by asking viewers to reconsider both their actions as well as others.
100 Instances of Negative Behavior Based in Bias, Prejudice and Privilege created a pathway to increased awareness of social justice, by asking viewers to reconsider both their actions as well as others.
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Mapped on a scale from 1- 8, each Instance asks us to consider a behavior’s contribution to the overall building of bias, prejudice, privilege and hate.
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Partners: Anti-Defamation League, Professor Aaron James, UC Irvine Department of Philosophy, Loyola Village Elementary School, Neighborgapbridge.
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Grant Support: OARS Educators, Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation
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Key Words: Design Thinking, Assessment, Rubric Design, Community Engagement, Multi-Discipinary, Multi Modal, Information Design, Student Led Learning. High Impact Learning, Inclusion, Civic Engagement, Blended Learning, Flipped Classroom, Mobile Learning Lab.