El Corazón Deck: Where Culture, Justice & Community Intersect
What is it?
El Corazón Deck is a teaching and learning tool, designed with students and educational and organizational leaders and professionals, to inspire relevant, dynamic critical thinking and explore the ways in which culture, justice, and community relate to and impact topics such as cultural values & identities, current events, history, colonization, systemic oppression, stereotypes & assumptions, microaggressions & micromessages, and unconscious bias.
Use El Corazón Deck to examine the ways its categories and topics intersect with our respective communities’ struggles, and how collective liberation can emerge through individual recognition and ownership of experiences, histories, and cultural perspectives.
The deck can be used as is, or you can utilize the blank cards to tailor culturally relevant lessons to your specific needs.
El Corazón Deck is also available as a full curriculum, with implementation support and corresponding, individualized materials, as well as online and in-person train the trainer modules.
Emily has been an equity and inclusion centered educator and consultant for the last 25 years, and continually grapple with how to effectively and accurately portray and discuss culture, justice, and identity in ways that aren't inherently biased; that ignite critical thinking and empathy, and that allows the students and participants to self-define and speak to one's own experiences, histories, and contexts.
Perhaps the biggest dilemma she faced was making visible the missing perspectives and systems that are likely absent because of personal and organizational context and unconscious biases.
She longed for a way to create opportunities for intersectional critical understanding, analysis, and awareness of the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage (Oxford).
Emily collaborated with students, instructors, and community to create the El Corazón Deck.
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What's included?
All Category cards plus:
Blank category cards
3 Wild Cards + Blank Wild Card per category
Entire deck table of contents
Deck description and suggestions
El Corazón Deck: Where Culture, Justice & Community Intersect
What is it?
El Corazón Deck is a teaching and learning tool, designed with students and educational and organizational leaders and professionals, to inspire relevant, dynamic critical thinking and explore the ways in which culture, justice, and community relate to and impact topics such as cultural values & identities, current events, history, colonization, systemic oppression, stereotypes & assumptions, microaggressions & micromessages, and unconscious bias.
Use El Corazón Deck to examine the ways its categories and topics intersect with our respective communities’ struggles, and how collective liberation can emerge through individual recognition and ownership of experiences, histories, and cultural perspectives.
The deck can be used as is, or you can utilize the blank cards to tailor culturally relevant lessons to your specific needs.
El Corazón Deck is also available as a full curriculum, with implementation support and corresponding, individualized materials, as well as online and in-person train the trainer modules.
Emily has been an equity and inclusion centered educator and consultant for the last 25 years, and continually grapple with how to effectively and accurately portray and discuss culture, justice, and identity in ways that aren't inherently biased; that ignite critical thinking and empathy, and that allows the students and participants to self-define and speak to one's own experiences, histories, and contexts.
Perhaps the biggest dilemma she faced was making visible the missing perspectives and systems that are likely absent because of personal and organizational context and unconscious biases.
She longed for a way to create opportunities for intersectional critical understanding, analysis, and awareness of the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage (Oxford).
Emily collaborated with students, instructors, and community to create the El Corazón Deck.
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