Seeing You Seeing Me

Subgroup Size

Small Group

Duration

1 hour

External Cost

No

Lesson Plan

Source

Activity created by Dr. Kris Acheson-Clair, CILMAR, Purdue University, based on sociologist Charles Horton Cooley's (1902) concept of the Looking Glass Self. 

 

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  1. User krisacheson's profile picture krisacheson 2:37 am 12 October 2020

    I used this recently with a group of about 50 diverse undergraduate students and it worked really well in person, but I think it could also work online as long as you have the capacity to put learners into small groups for discussion. One thing I noticed about drawing out discussion in the large group was how important it was for me as a facilitator to be vulnerable and model the kinds of contributions I wanted them to make to the dialogue. After the first question was met with crickets, each time I asked them to reflect or generate example stories, I provided one from my own experiences to jumpstart discussion. That technique worked well and we got some really insightful comments and examples from the group despite the large group size.