After a brief hour-long break (tea time — it is England after all!), Jon and Jen talked about designing workshops to help students push past Donna’s “mindsets that serve as barriers to justice“.
They led the group in an exercise that attempted to brainstorm how engineering educators may be taught to push pass those same barriers. During the workshop, three mini-groups asked each other questions on privilege, empathy, integration, and pedagogy.
- Group 1: Heather from EWB-Queen’s (Canada) spoke about connecting educators with each other and the ESJP network. This would help interest more engineering educators in teaching about justice in their classes.
- Group 2: Use roleplaying activities to highlight privileges of class, race, etc. Students must form their own values. Educators cannot simply lecture on their own values. Student input can be encouraged through the use of roundtables, buzz groups.
- Group 3: We questioned whether assuming these mindsets would reinforce them. Use roleplaying to face barriers like the Poverty Challenge.
