Facilitating Intergroup Dialogue Online: Dialogic Opportunities and Limitations

• In Event: Creating Inclusive and Welcoming Online Learning Environments

Abstract

Since its development at the University of Michigan in the late 1980s, intergroup dialogue (IGD) has become a prominent social justice pedagogy utilized within a wide range of postsecondary and K-12 settings. Though IGD has been implemented as an in-person experience for decades, the COVID-19 pandemic required institutions to implement IGD online for the first time. Guided by theories of intergroup contact and intergroup dialogue, we interviewed college students who participated in online IGD to discern dialogic opportunities and limitations that emerged throughout their online IGD experience.

Authors

• Grant Jackson, Texas Tech University
  Presenting Author

• Sarah M. Schiffecker, Texas Tech University
  Presenting Author

• Oleksandra Poquet, University of South Australia
  Presenting Author