Personal and Social Identity Wheels, Identity Circles, Beads, and Molecule, The Paseo (Circles of Identity), Circles of My Multicultural Self

Subgroup Size

Entire group

Duration

1 hour and 30 minutes

External Cost

No

Lesson Plan

Source

Personal Identity Wheel and Social Identity Wheel were adapted for use by the Program on Intergroup Relations and the Spectrum Center, University of Michigan.

LSA Inclusive Teaching Initiative, University of Michigan. (2017, August 16). Personal identity wheel. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/sample-activities/personal-identity-wheel/

LSA Inclusive Teaching Initiative, University of Michigan. (2017, August 16). Social identity wheel. https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/inclusive-teaching/sample-activities/social-identity-wheel/

Identity circles. (n.d.). Bonner Curriculum in partnership with Dr. Tanisha Brandon‐ Felder. http://bonnernetwork.pbworks.com/f/BonCurIdentityCircles.pdf

Paseo or circles of identity (16 November, 2017). CLEE SRI. https://www.schoolreforminitiative.org/download/the-paseo-or-circles-of-identity/

This protocol is a result of collaborative work by:  Debbi Laidley, Deb Bambino, Debbie McIntyre, Stevi Quate and Juli Quinn; created at the NSRF Winter Meeting 2001, Houston, TX.

Gorski, P. (n.d.). Circles of my multicultural self. Critical multicultural pavilion: Awareness activities. http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/activities/circlesofself.html

Fahrun, H., Skowron, E., Zimmerman, N.-E. (2014). Diversity dynamics: Activating the potential of diversity in trainings. A handbook for facilitators in active citizenship education. MitOst Association Berlin. https://www.mitost.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Diversity_dynamics_screen_2015.pdf

 

Tags:

  1. icebreaker
  2. identity
  3. IPG created
  4. online learning
  5. remote instruction
  6. self-awareness
  7. virtual
  8. virtual context

From the LSA Inclusive Teaching Initiative, University of Michigan: "When used in conjunction with the Social Identity Wheel, the Personal Identity Wheel can be further interrogated to consider how students’ personal identities are or aren’t informed by their social identities." This activity can also be used in conjunction with the Spectrum Activity.

Facilitators may choose to use any of the activities provided in this tool. All activity options encourage participants to consider the many identities with which they identify. Some activities provide identity categories (i.e., Personal Identity Wheel and Social Identity Wheel), while others allow participants to choose their own identities unprompted (i.e., Identity Beads, Identity Molecule, The Paseo [Circles of Identity], Circles of My Multicultural Self, Identity Circles).

The modified version of this activity was submitted by Dr. John Sheffield, Purdue Polytechnic Institute in fulfillment of the requirements of the Intercultural Pedagogy Grant program.