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Social Location, Positionality & Unconscious Bias
Candy Khan, M.Ed. EDI Advisor, HRS
University of Alberta
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Name (Turn to your Neighbor)
What Is The Original Meaning Of Your Name
2 minutes please
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Early socialization
Acquiring new roles
Your assumptions play very important role in how you interact with others
Social locationPositionality
Intersectionality “your place in space”
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ME
Social Location
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Intersectionality
Social class
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What is a Bias?
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• Bias is a prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another usually in a way that’s considered to be unfair.
• Biases may be held by an individual, group, or institution and can have negative or positive consequences.
What is Bias?
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Unconscious Bias
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• Automatically triggered responses outside of our control or awareness (Greenwald & Banaji, 1995).
• Differential treatment (age, gender, class, race, etc).
• UB affects our judgement without us realizing.
• UB is more reliable of prejudice and behavior (Doridio et al, 1997)
Unconscious Bias
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• Last two decades, a substantial amount of research (over 5,000 studies) has been conducted and provides a better understanding of the nature of UB/IB.
• Enhanced understanding has led to the development of strategies to assess and address unconscious bias
Research on UB
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• Socialization
• Culture
• Our own experiences
• Institutional influences
• Mental processes of perception, memory, judgement and reasoning
What Causes UB
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• Implicit bias is far more prevalent than conscious prejudice and often incompatible with one’s conscious values.
• Certain scenarios can activate implicit attitudes and beliefs. For example, biases may be more prevalent when multi-tasking or working under time pressure.
Implicit Bias
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Applying The Lens
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Learning environment that promotes full personal, academic and professional development of all learners irrespective of race, class, colour, gender, sexual orientation, learning styles, etc.
Inclusive Education and Classroom
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Accessibility
Curriculum (relevant, broad, diverse)
Content (teaching/learning activities)
Diverse learning needs
Participation (student engagement)
Respectful and socially inclusive
The Key Concepts
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• Is your classroom accessible for participants who are differently abled?
• Does your curriculum, projects, homework, exams assume everyone is heterosexual?
• What religious or cultural holidays and events do you need to take into account when scheduling events?
Applying the Lens
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Instructor/TAs
• Are their certain students whose interests are focused on more often than others?
• Are case studies/stories lived realities of only some students mentioned?
• Does your syllabus have diverse academics?
• Is EDI embedded in the syllabus?
• Do guest facilitators represent diverse experiences, backgrounds, and social locations?
Applying the Lens
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• Social Location will inform your UB
• Take the Implicit Association Test (I.A.T) to measure implicit cognition
• Visit Teaching for Diversity (toolkit provides resources and strategies)
• Contact Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office to obtain more information about upcoming training opportunities.
Do I have UB?
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