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Transcript of Acknowledging Bias and Stereotypes Dr. Anna Marie Frank DePaul University AAHPERD April 1, 2014.
Acknowledging Bias and Stereotypes
Dr. Anna Marie Frank
DePaul University
AAHPERD April 1, 2014
Overview• PETE student or practicing physical education
teacher (PPET), our biases are easily uncovered
by our students as part of our hidden curriculum
• Unconscious support for the continuation of
stereotyping
• Ineffective teaching-learning process
• Identification is the first step to dismantling
negative stereotyping/bias
Content• PETE student may experience difference for the first
time on the college campus.
• PPET will regularly encounter new students, often of
different cultures
• Activities to help identify bias and stereotyping
should be used early and often
• Acknowledge that stereotypes are integral to the
way our minds process information, pervasive,
predictability, can be positive or negative, can be
partly true but have consequences.
Understanding Prejudice • Welcome to UnderstandingPrejudice.org , a web site for
students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and
consequences of prejudice.
• In these pages you will find more than 2,000 links to
prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases
with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice
organizations.
• To the right, you'll also find a variety of interactive exercises
offering unique perspectives on prejudice, stereotyping, and
discrimination.
Understanding Prejudice• Pretest prior to completing the
workshops/engaging in the website, then
repeat to see how answers change
• Provides current level of bias on a certain
item
• Be interviewed and asked questions/discuss
when you should “draw the line”
“My father sincerely believes that science is a
political plot, Christians are the most persecuted
minority and Barack Obama is a full blown
communist. He supports the use of force without
question, as long as it’s aimed at foreigners. He
thinks all liberals are stupid, who hate America. I
don’t recall my father being so hostile when I was
growing up. What has changed him? He consumes
a daily diet of nothing but *** News. . . We are
losing the nation’s grandparents, and it’s an
American tragedy”.
Journalistic Approach
• Overcoming Bias: A Journalist’s Guide to Culture
& Content, S. E. Christian 2012, HHP.
• Project Implicit projectimplicit.net
• Gauge your implicit associations about
characteristics: presidents, Asians, Arab-Muslims,
skin-tone, gender, Native Americans, age, race,
weight, religion, gender-career or disability.
Project Implicit results
Asks you to make choices quickly and tried to
measure how much you rely on implicit
associations to make the decisions.
Declares that you have a slight, moderate or
strong preference or little to no preference for
the characteristic (white or black people) you
are interested in.
Social Attitude Survey
• To better understand how your culture
has shaped your thinking about others.
• Results
– Identify at least one question that was
particularly uncomfortable because your
answer didn’t seem socially acceptable.
– Discuss in small safe groups
Social Dominance Orientation Scale• Describes a general attitude toward others,
toward social groups and one's regard for
the various groups’ implicit value.
• Measures the extent to which a person
desires his or her own social in-group to
dominate and be superior to out-groups.
• General attitudinal orientation toward
relationships between groups and the
policies and structures that support …isms.
1=Very Negative 2=Negative 3=Slightly Negative 4=Neither 5=Slightly Positive 6-Positive
7=Very Positive
• 1. Some groups of people are simply not the equals of others.
• 2. Some people are just more worthy than others.
• 3. This country would be better off if we cared less about how equal all people were.
• 4. Some people are just more deserving than others.
• 5. It is not a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others.
• 6. Some people are just inferior to other
• 7. To get ahead in life, it is sometimes necessary to step on others.
• 8. Increased economic equality
• 9. Increased social equality
• 10. Equality.
• 11. If people were treated more equally we would have fewer problems in this country.
• 12. In an ideal world, all nations would be equal
• 13. We should try to treat one another as equals as much as possible. (All humans should
be treated equally.)
• 14. It is important that we treat other countries as equals.
Category Width Questionnaire
• Category width refers to how broadly a
person categorizes things.
– Broad categorizers are tolerant and search for
appropriate information rather than making
uninformed judgments.
– Narrow categorizers are unaccepting of
conflicting information and en to make
judgments based on their own cultural
viewpoint.
1. I do well on tasks that require integrated information processing.
2. I do well on tasks that require detailed information processing.
3. Things can be very dissimilar and share a common quality and I
will use the same label to describe it.
4. I make strong judgments about others.
5. I do well on tasks that require holistic information processing.
6. I am confident that I perform well in social situations.
7. I try to make sure I have sufficient information before judging
others.
8. I do well on tasks that require analytic information processing.
9. I try to obtain a lot of information before making a decision.
10. I react strongly to change.
Uncertainty Orientation Questionnaire
• Uncertainty oriented individuals have a need
to understand others, are open minded and
evaluate ideas on their own merit.
• Certainty-oriented individuals are not
interested in finding our information about the
world and others and are confident in their
ability to explain the behaviors of strangers.
• I do not compare myself to others
• If given a choice, I prefer to go somewhere new rather than
somewhere I’ve been before.
• I reject ideas that are different than mine.
• I try to resolve inconsistencies in beliefs I hold.
• I am not interested in finding out information about myself.
• When I obtain new information, I try to integrate it with
information I already have.
• I hold traditional beliefs.
• I evaluate people on their own merit without comparing them to
others.
• I hole inconsistent views of myself.
• If someone suggests an opinion that is different than mine, I do
not reject it before I consider it.
Generative Knowledge Interviewing
• Groups of 3-one story teller and 2 listeners
• Tell a story of when you felt different or the
concept of difference
• Listeners can not agree or talk about their
related experience.
• Take notes when they hear a “red flag”-can
ask for clarification or to ask probing
questions about what there are hearing.
Closure & Questions
• I am Other
• Seek to decrease others as what they
are and increase the way we see others
as who they are.
• Comments?
• Questions?