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10/16/2019 Deconstructing the Familiar : It is not about changing our actions it is about changing our thinking. Intersectionality in Leadership Conference June 2019 Dr. Sheila Bennett Brock University 1 1982 2019 2 Irving Goffman: The


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It is not about changing our actions it is about changing our thinking.

Intersectionality in Leadership Conference June 2019

  • Dr. Sheila Bennett

Brock University

1982 ‐ 2019

Irving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

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Amid all the recesses and math classes I was learning something else, something far more powerful; something that would shape me as a human being.

It took time for me to see the relationship to my past, not just my childhood but the many experiences and messages I received and internalized. Nearing the end of the school year this student spends most of the day sitting in the corner of their class with the educational assistant, a space they have occupied for the entire year.

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Even as we watch some of what we believe to be fundamental rights erode amidst a cacophony of fear mongering and misinformation there is hope that societies, structures and individuals will hold fast. His response was that you must be magnanimous. What I sometimes forget in my advocacy work is that common ground is a much more powerful ally than divisiveness.

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No great change in history has come in on the paws

  • f a kitten.

Judith Snow (1949 – 2015) What ‘s really worth doing and how to do it (possibly yourself) Inclusion Press 1994) We taught him fear?

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The space between when a student speaks and when we answer. The space that seems so small but can be infinite.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

The Hollow Men T.S. Eliot (1925)

Courage, Knowledge, Relationships.

  • Beliefs form early for all of us. Know who you

are.

  • Be knowledgeable and trust your instincts.
  • Don’t apologize but communicate and

collaborate

  • Fight injustice for everyone because

community matters

  • Be an active and positive leader in shaping

the future.

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Inclusion is a moral choice; the rest is just stuff

Thank you

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