Dan Lukiv

Racism: Discussion Topics for the Classroom Dan Lukiv

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021.

Previously published as Racism-Socio-Emotional Discussion Groups (McNaughton Centre [Quesnel, BC], 2011).

Introduction

This program, through class discussions, explores unhumanistic forces of racism at the students' experiential level, encouraging them to empathize with and show compassion to others.

Resources for discussions:

1. Students' opinions and experiences;

2. Teacher's knowledge of problems racism causes; and

3. Videos that feature unlikely friendships in the animal world (as found on youtube video-streams).

For each of 20 weeks, students view one of 20 youtube video-streams, and construct a web that they daily add information to, based on the discussion topic of the week. Truths implied by the video-streams: Racism is both illogical and unhumanistic.

The author

Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.