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Disrupting the Disciplines
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- Last edited 29 days ago by Joan Middendorf
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Disrupting the Disciplines focuses on the bottlenecks of racism, implicit bias, colonialims, and identity raised awareness that concepts we have taken for granted as neutral and unbiased are n fact deeply enmeshed in structures of oppression.
Comparison of Decoding and Disrupting
The following table juxtaposes guiding questions of Decoding and Disrupting.[1]
| Decoding/Disrupting Steps | Decoding questions | Disrupting questions |
|---|---|---|
| Step 1 Bottlenecks | Where is a bottleneck where students struggle to learn in my course or field? | Where is my field upholding colonialism/racism? What is one component of my discipline where I can identify colonial or racist structures or processes at work? And that I feel prepared to delve into? |
| Step 2 Decoding/Disrupting | What does the specialist do to get through the bottleneck? What is the “mental move?” | What can I imagine doing differently? What kind of thinking or doing (or being) are we aiming for? |
| Step 3 Modeling/Teaching Presentation | What narratives, analogies, or metaphors will I use to model and meta-explain the mental move? | What narratives, analogies, or metaphors will model or center indigenous or anti-racist views? |
| Step 4 Student Practice | How will the students practice the mental move? How will I scaffold it for them? | What do I have the students practice? |
| Step 5 Motivation/Resistance | Where do the students resist? Are there emotional and identity bottlenecks that interfere with learning the mental move? What will motivate persistence to use the new mental move? | Where do students resist? What anti-racist/indigenous pedagogies will I use? |
| Step 6 Assessment | How can I check that students have grasped the new mental move? | How do I assess anti-racist and anti-colonialist thinking? |
| Step 7 Sharing | Where can I disseminate the analysis and reflection on the bottleneck lesson? | Where do I share what we learned from analysis and reflection on the disrupting process? |