A Toolbox for Dialogue-Based Approaches to Contested Problems
Location
Sasquatch Room 124 C
Start Date
21-4-2023 10:30 AM
End Date
21-4-2023 11:45 AM
Publication Date
2023
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Law | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Description
The Business School Learning Laboratory (created 2002), has had a heavy emphasis on developing and refining tools, often arts-based, which promote reflective and dialogic approaches to personal and organisational development, increasingly related to contested problems. In 2020 the School faced a crisis when, at the very height of Black Lives Matter, it was revealed that the school (then named Cass Business School) was in fact named after a leading slaver of the 18th Century. There was significant tension and dissent across the school’s stakeholders. Not only was the name changed to Bayes Business School, but many initiatives were taken in school and university, particularly around equality, diversity and inclusion, and with decolonisation of the curriculum. UK experience in EDI has been mixed with institutions often undertaking performative process activities while paying less attention to day-to-day changes in teaching, research, promotions, behaviour etc. Anxious to avoid performativity, from 2020 the Learning Laboratory has revisited its “toolbox” of dialogic approaches, both analogue and digital, with a view to applying to EDI and decolonisation.
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Recommended Citation
Holtham, Clive and Kernan, Mary Ann, "A Toolbox for Dialogue-Based Approaches to Contested Problems" (2023). International Conference on Hate Studies. 4.
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/icohs/2023/seventh/4
Full Text of Presentation
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Media Format
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Session Title
Education as a Reinforcer of Hate and as a Mediator for Change
Type
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A Toolbox for Dialogue-Based Approaches to Contested Problems
Sasquatch Room 124 C
The Business School Learning Laboratory (created 2002), has had a heavy emphasis on developing and refining tools, often arts-based, which promote reflective and dialogic approaches to personal and organisational development, increasingly related to contested problems. In 2020 the School faced a crisis when, at the very height of Black Lives Matter, it was revealed that the school (then named Cass Business School) was in fact named after a leading slaver of the 18th Century. There was significant tension and dissent across the school’s stakeholders. Not only was the name changed to Bayes Business School, but many initiatives were taken in school and university, particularly around equality, diversity and inclusion, and with decolonisation of the curriculum. UK experience in EDI has been mixed with institutions often undertaking performative process activities while paying less attention to day-to-day changes in teaching, research, promotions, behaviour etc. Anxious to avoid performativity, from 2020 the Learning Laboratory has revisited its “toolbox” of dialogic approaches, both analogue and digital, with a view to applying to EDI and decolonisation.