Our book club started as a way to discuss social justice topics, but we've developed this dynamic where the two members who have graduate degrees dominate the conversation with academic language while the rest of us feel stupid for having more personal or emotional responses to what we're reading. We all want to keep learning together, but the conversations have started feeling exclusionary rather than enlightening.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group committed to collective learning is struggling with how different types of knowledge and ways of engaging create hierarchies that undermine their shared purpose.
“Where Are You with Existentialist authenticity vs. bad faith?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.