Be critical: Should Children Learn about Exclusion?
SeungHee Lee
Associate Professor, Art and Design, University of Tsukuba.
Her main research fields are “Kansei” (affective informatics) and design.
A Korean resident in Japan.
Rasel Ahmed
Assistant Professor, Theatre, Film, and Media Arts, The Ohio State University.
Filmmaker. An immigrant to the U.S. from Bangladesh.
Students from Lee’s Lab
Max (half Japanese, half Dutch)
Alvin (half Chinese, half Indonesian)
Some critics of DEI argue that emphasizing diversity, equity, and inclusion actually makes discrimination visible as something that exists. From their perspective, discrimination has already been eliminated, so inclusion and exclusion aren’t even real issues.
But the question is, when children don’t even know the word exclusion, should we really be teaching them about being excluded?
“Very difficult.”
SeungHee Lee
“If the fundation is not provided, how could we expect a more critical engagement with the issue.”
“No one can just fly if they cannot stand up, you know.”
Rasel Ahmed
In March of this year, Prof. Sue from OSU visited Tsukuba and mentioned in the talk that, “In an ideal world, we shouldn’t need the term Inclusion.“
How would she respond to the question of whether we should teach kids about exclusion?
At the talk session with Ann & Akiyama
Talk session with Prof. Rasel, Lee and Students
- Is DEI good or evil?
- Does Exclusion exists?
- Prof. Rasel and the Making of Film
- Should Children Learn about Exclusion?
- Pros and Cons of AI
- Prof. Lee’s story and the Film
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Prof. Rasel Ahmed of OSU visits UT Held Talk Session with Prof. Lee Seung Hee