Dignity, Kindness, and Social Identity

Music & Peacebuilding

This interview with Dr. Mica Estrada explores her work in researching belonging, social identity, and kindness. Beginning with an exploration of impostor phenomena, we first explore stories about Donna Hicks’s direct experience at being affirmed and welcomed. Returning to Estrada’s research, we examine the impact of Dr. Kellman and the development of a social integration model of self-efficacy, identity, and values. This model has been used to explore the experiences of minoritized students in STEM fields and community responses to climate change. The episode closes with examinations of belonging and stereotype threat and the power of kindness and accompaniment as dignity-affirming practices.

The Music & Peacebuilding Podcast is hosted by Kevin Shorner-Johnson at Elizabethtown College. Join our professional development network at www.musicpeacebuilding.com - thinking deeply we reclaim space for connection and care.

Chapters

1. Dignity, Kindness, and Social Identity (00:00:00)

2. Donna Hicks at Harvard (00:02:23)

3. Impostor Phenomena, Belonging Uncertainty (00:07:56)

4. Meeting Donna (00:09:47)

5. Herb Kellman (00:11:13)

6. Rule, Role, and Value Orientation (00:15:34)

7. Tripartite Model of Social Integration (00:17:10)

8. Self-efficacy, Identity, and Values (00:20:29)

9. Focus on Self-Efficacy in STEM (00:21:58)

10. Climate Change and Social Integration (00:23:28)

11. Dignity, Challenge, and Accompaniment (00:26:15)

12. Values (00:27:35)

13. Stereotype Threat (00:32:28)

14. Kindness (00:35:38)

15. Affirmations and Persistence (00:39:02)

16. Expansive Communities (00:41:53)

17. Closure (00:46:19)

18. Closing Poem (00:47:33)