Field of Privilege: Why Instructional Design and Technology Must Engage Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice

• In Event: CLT - Examining World Views on Technology

Short Description

This session considers our field’s historic and current social contexts, with the purposes of (1) Calling attention to IDT’s collective blind spot regarding race, ethnicity, and social justice issues, (2) Unpacking common fallacies of social neutrality; (3) Identifying and considering the damage being done by ignoring these issues, (4) Reflecting on what can be gained by sincerely engaging these issues; and (5) Facilitating ongoing discussion and practice regarding how we might productively engage these considerations.

Author

• Amy C Bradshaw, University of Oklahoma