Starting the Conversation: Initial Listening and Identity Approaches to Community Cultural Wellness.

ABSTRACT: Inclusion of multiple viewpoints increases when teams are diverse and provides value in scientific communication and discovery. To promote retention and raise the critical mass of underrepresented persons in science, all voices must be heard "at the table" to include "ways of knowing" outside the dominant institutional culture. These community-based inclusive concepts promote hearing all diverse perspectives for inclusive recognition of deeper socio-historical cultural wealth-collectively termed cultural wellness. When undergraduates and graduates in active-learning groups in class, or faculty collaborative teams on campus, start a project too quickly on task, opportunities are missed to be inclusive. While beginning a larger science project, we, student and faculty co-authors, first addre

SUBMITTER: Smith-Keiling BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7195164 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature