Actively Addressing Systemic Racism Using a Behavioral Community Approach

Recent police brutality and related violence against Black people, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, has further evidenced the disproportionate impact of systemic racism in our institutions and across society. In the United States, the alarming mortality rates for Black people due to police violence and COVID-19 related deaths are clear demonstrations of inequities within a long history of disparate outcomes. In understanding systemic racism, it is essential to consider how it is embedded within society and across socio-ecological levels. The Social-Ecological Model (SEM) is used to examine conditions within the environment that maintain systemic racism, including within our field and discipline. A behavioral-community approach for examining racism aids in determining points of intervention across multiple ecological levels that may contribute to behavior change, including with behaviorists. The science of behavior is well-suited to help examine the contingencies governing behaviors within and across systems, which is pivotal for addressing operant behaviors to influence long-term behavior change. This paper calls on the behavioral community to address systemic racism within our environments and systems of influence to contribute to a more equitable community. Systemic racism, including within the context of anti-Blackness, is examined by considering behavior change strategies that can be supported by behaviorists across socio-ecological levels. Tools for collaborative action are provided to support behaviorists in demonstrating the skills needed across a continuum of behaviors from allyship to anti-racism to actively address systemic racism

Division D fireside chat - Provocations in qualitative research: Problematizing the post-qualitative research

In the past years, Division D Fireside Chat has centered on quantitative research and methodology. This year, we will focus on various forms of and approaches to qualitative research, mainly the post-qualitative research. With the target audience being graduate students at AERA, we want to organize a workshop for Dr. Katie Strom to share her experience as a qualitative methodologist, researcher and writer. The topics include qualitative inquiry inspired by the post-philosophies (posthumanism, affect theory and feminist new materialism etc.), and writing qualitative research for public audience. This workshop is designed to help graduate students be acquainted with different traditions and approaches within qualitative research in hopes that it will inform their own research design and practice

Division D fireside chat - Provocations in qualitative research: Problematizing the post-qualitative research

In the past years, Division D Fireside Chat has centered on quantitative research and methodology. This year, we will focus on various forms of and approaches to qualitative research, mainly the post-qualitative research. With the target audience being graduate students at AERA, we want to organize a workshop for Dr. Katie Strom to share her experience as a qualitative methodologist, researcher and writer. The topics include qualitative inquiry inspired by the post-philosophies (posthumanism, affect theory and feminist new materialism etc.), and writing qualitative research for public audience. This workshop is designed to help graduate students be acquainted with different traditions and approaches within qualitative research in hopes that it will inform their own research design and practice