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Let's Talk About Race - Navigating Microaggressions
Identify and challenge microaggressions safely and effectively. Overt racism is easy to spot. But microaggressions - subtle everyday slights, snubs and insults - are often invisible to anyone who hasn't been on the receiving end themselves.
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About the module
25 minutes
English
VR, PC, mobile and web
LLM & scripted roleplays
AI-powered personalised feedback
Completion certificate
Lesson planning resources
Who is it for?
This comprehensive module is designed for a diverse range of learners and a broad range of competency levels. It’s particularly beneficial for:
- Higher Education institutions: Enhances students' cultural awareness and understanding of the importance of DEI, providing them with the tools with which to tackle internal biases and assumptions.
- Corporations and Enterprises: Supports wider DEI training by offering immersive experiences to place individuals in simulations to enhance real-world awareness.
- Further Education colleges: Provide students with an understanding of DEI and the tools with which to tackle their own internal biases.
The Scenario
This simulation shines a spotlight on some of the microaggressions that marginalised and under-represented people experience every day and empowers learners with strategies for responding to microaggressions when they see them.
This simulation has been co-developed in collaboration with subject matter experts from George Brown College.
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Learning objectives.
Through this scenario, you will:
- Reflect on your personal reaction to microaggressions
- Identify common microinsults and microinvalidations and learn about how they impact the lives of marginalised people
- Learn strategies for having constructive conversations about racism
- Practise challenging others to reflect on their microaggressions safely and effectively.
This module was created with the following Subject Matter Experts:
Charlene Dustan
Charlene is a professor and coordinator in the Social Service Program at George Brown College, Before her tenure at the college, over the last 20 years Charlene held a variety of roles working with low-income, marginalized, chronically homeless, and street-involved women. Charlene has served as AGM Ombudsman for Amnesty International Canada, trained as a union human rights race-based complaints employee support, content advisor for the VR simulation Lets talk about race and is a member of The Toronto District School Boards Equity Policy Community Advisory Committee.
Gail Hunter
Gail Hunter has been a Professor and Coordinator of Early Child Education at George Brown College for 33 years. In addition to this, she taught and worked as an Early Childhood Educator, Supervisor, and Early Childhood Advisor with the Toronto Board of Education. In 1989 Gail began her journey of presenting on Anti-Bias Education, in 2018 she was called on to develop Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression courses and workshop modules for the Education sector locally and nationally.
Michael Avis
Michael has worked in the educational sector for over twenty years and has taught domestically and internationally at the primary, secondary, college, and university levels. He has a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto in the Centre for Urban Schooling. His area of study was in the inner-city education program with a commitment to exploring issues of equity and social justice, integrating research-based theory and practice, and advocating change for students traditionally underserved by the system.
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Charlene Dustan
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Gail Hunter
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