Social Sustainability: Social Conscience and The Interconnectedness of Humanity

Encounters with differences are becoming increasingly unavoidable. It has become unavoidable and even necessary for people to migrate, meet with people who speak different languages, practice different lifestyles, hold different perspectives, and endorse different values and worldviews. Reluctance or inability to engage genuinely with differences is the real struggle. Ignoring this challenge or rejecting pluralism altogether can have disastrous consequences and affect communities locally and globally.

This module will enable the learner to understand that honoring our own identity does not necessarily mean rejecting others’ identity. We always argue about our right ‘to be heard’ and often forget our responsibility ‘to listen’ and our proactive obligation to observe and learn. This learning platform will allow the learner to learn ways to genuinely embrace diversity as a strength and an indispensable foundation for human peace and progress.

Skills and Dispositions, you will develop

Active listening, empathy, embracing diversity, tolerance, and respect.

Module Delivery

Scenario-based reflections, role plays, and discussions

Structure of the reflection Report
SectionWhat it might contain
Introduction
Identifies and introduces your experience or learning

Virtual World Tour to Unpack Diversity: Diversity takes many forms, including but not limited to culture, language, place of origin, migrant generation, age, gender, religion, interpretations of faith, ritual tradition, socioeconomic status, abilities, etc.

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Highlights why it was important: To understand the key concept on which to build reflections.

Outline key themes that will appear in the reflection (optional – but particularly relevant when answering a reflective prompt or essay)

  • Cosmopolitan Ethics: The Cosmopolitan Ethic is an ethic of respect that values human diversity. A readiness to accept the complexity of human society. It is an ethic for all people that balances rights and duties.
  • Pluralism: Pluralism transcends tolerance. It requires us to actively engage across differences and embrace these differences as a strength - more than just being sympathetic or sensitive to others.                            
  • Learning about Ourselves by Learning about Others: Understanding our biases, prejudices, world views, and the reasons contributing to developing our world view. Learn to explore why others hold certain perspectives so we can see others as they see themselves; we communicate with people with whom we disagree.

 

Main body
Explore Experiences:
  • Virtual culture fair: acknowledging and respecting our differences and questioning our biases towards others.
Analyze and Synthesize:
  • Scenario-based role plays- application of Cosmopolitan Ethics
  • Reflection on the process
Conclusion
Restate or state your learning
  • Play trivia – summarizing class learning and assessing the achievement of learning outcomes.
Plan for the future
  • Social conscience rooted both in the notion of social justice and the interconnectedness of humanity.
Answer the question or prompt (if applicable)
  • One thing that I would do differently…

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Moderators

Rubina
Presenter

Dr. Rubina Qureshi

Senior Instructor of Sociology
College of Arts and Sciences
Abu Dhabi University

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Mr-AminTejpar
Industry Speaker

Mr. Amin Tejpar

Managing Director
Curved Space Data

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