My Group Memberships and Identity

This week’s focus is on group memberships and gaining a greater appreciation for other’s perspectives. Engage in a conversation with your course community about the following:

• Identify three different groups that you belong to and then consider at least one of the following:

  How do these three group memberships influence your sense of identity?
  How do they influence your experiences living in your community?

As always, if you are relying on someone else’s ideas when presenting yours, you should reference their paper, article, et cetera. This includes sharing references to your fellow students’ ideas!

Response Guidelines

• Your Participation: This discussion is an opportunity for you to review the work of other learners to inform your own learning. Your interactions and anything you share should be courteous, succinct, professional, well written, and organized. Communicating clearly with proper grammar and punctuation will foster more and better interactions with your classmates.
• Your Post: Create a post responding to one of the discussion prompts. Do not create your post as a reply to another post.
• Responding to Peers: As you respond to at least one classmate, please make sure your response is substantive by sharing your professional experiences and helpful thoughts and feedback about ideas they have shared. Try to comment on those where you feel you have the most useful information to share and consider the following:

  How do your group memberships and experiences compare to your colleague’s?
  How have your experiences resonated with their ideas?
  What can you add to their ideas, building upon the connections you have made to the material so far? Supplement course resources and extend consideration of the topic by including new information or findings from current journal articles, discussing more in-depth critical thinking questions, and providing constructive or corrective feedback or an alternative viewpoint supported by empirical evidence.