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Core Competency
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Possible Educational Activities and Approaches
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| Critical thinking and analysis
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- Critical Media Literacy
- Analyzing the roots and current impact of forces of domination
- Interrogating identity and unequal forms citizenship
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| Empathy and solidarity
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- Cultivating an understanding of the psychological and emotional impacts of violence
- Viewing injustices facing others as limits on the freedom of all
- Identifying actions and approaches that can bring awareness to local and global inequalities
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| Individual and coalitional agency
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- Facilitating situational analyses and decision making that can lead to informed action
- Emphasizing creating ‘power with’ (not ‘power over’) others in collective action processes
- Resisting forces of silencing and apathy in order to act for the larger social good
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| Participatory and democratic engagement
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- Engagement in local issues of justice and ability to link them to global trends and realities
- Attention to global processes that privilege some and marginalize many
- Understanding examples of ‘little d’ democracy that involve people power, movement building, and community engagement
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| Education and communication strategies
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- Developing fluency in various forms of conveying key ideas to diverse audiences (e.g. formal, non-formal, and community education)
- Knowledge of diverse pedagogical approaches including film, popular education, narrative/testimonial, multimedia, oral history, etc.
- Utilizing storytelling, multiple perspectives, and primary sources in the creation of pedagogical tools
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| Conflict transformation skills |
- Exploring the roots of violence to understand ways to mitigate individual and group conflict
- Understanding how diverse individuals and communities approach conflict, dialogue, and peacemaking
- Examining and attending to the historical roots, material conditions, and power relations of entrenched conflicts in educational intervention
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Ongoing reflective practice
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- Journal writing, autobiography, examining the roots of one’s own identity (racial, gender, sexual orientation, religion, class, etc.), self in relation to others
- Creating communities of practice that offer collective forms of feedback and thinking
- Ability to link self to collective, family to community, and analyze sources of rupture and tension holistically
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