Last week’s discussion board had you choose three statements of privilege that you felt were the MOST important for a person to be successful in life. You were not required to include a rationale for your selections. Instead, we will be utilizing this assignment as a post reflection to learn from one another how various forms of privilege and our intersectionality of race, socioeconomic class, gender and other demographic variables shape our world views.
This assignment requires full participation and your responses must go beyond simple “Yes/No” answers. To receive full points, please provide support to explain your thinking.
To Do:
1. Go back to the Equity Mindedness Discussion Board and read through all the posted submissions.
2. Reflections, Connections, Reactions: Answer ALL of the following questions. Provide support to explain your thinking.
As you reviewed your peer’s selections, what patterns of selected statements did you notice? Why do you think these specific statements were selected so many times? Provide specific examples.
Identify a statement that one of your peers selected that surprised you. Please list it in your response. Explain why you are surprised. What might have led this person to select this statement (think about multiple perspectives, intersectionality and backgrounds).
Now that you have reviewed the statements all of your peers submitted, would you change any of the statements you selected? Why or Why not?
What is your understanding of the various forms of privilege with the completion of this activity and other course content (what connections did you make)?
Describe three privileges you hold (can be from the list provided in the discussion board, but does not have to be) that you do not think about often. Reflect on why you do not think about them often and how you can be more aware of them on a daily basis.
