Article
Exploring Racial and Ethnic Identities with PechaKucha
Currents in Teaching & Learning
(2023)
Abstract
To better understand how individual experiences and racial and ethnic identities are connected to broader patterns of social structure, we asked students in our undergraduate Race and Ethnicity courses to complete a “PechaKucha” presentation assignment emphasizing the intersections of race and ethnicity in each student’s biography. PechaKucha is a 20x20 PowerPoint presentation format involving 20 slides that transition automatically every 20 seconds, yielding a total presentation length of six minutes and 40 seconds. We evaluated the effectiveness of this innovative pedagogical technique in six different sections of our race and ethnicity courses, including one entirely online, totaling 180 students. Results indicated that PechaKucha was perceived as enhancing student learning about diversity. Our students’ PechaKucha presentation assignments revealed several sociological patterns, including the social construction of race, discrimination, and stereotyping. In this article, we share our assignment guidelines and suggestions for successful assignment implementation.
Keywords
- Critical pedagogy,
- race,
- ethnicity,
- identity,
- diversity,
- PechaKucha
Disciplines
Publication Date
September 1, 2023
Citation Information
Linda A. Treiber, Evelina W Sterling and Ravi Ghadge. "Exploring Racial and Ethnic Identities with PechaKucha" Currents in Teaching & Learning Vol. 15 Iss. 1 (2023) p. 38 - 50 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/linda_treiber/81/