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Ichigo-Ichie: How Impactful Racial Justice and Transformational Changes Begin With the Urgency of Making Each Encounter Meaningful in Higher Education

Ichigo-Ichie: How Impactful Racial Justice and Transformational Changes Begin With the Urgency of Making Each Encounter Meaningful in Higher Education

Hideko Sera, Andrew F. Wall
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781799871521|ISBN10: 1799871525|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799871538|EISBN13: 9781799871545
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7152-1.ch001
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Sera, Hideko, and Andrew F. Wall. "Ichigo-Ichie: How Impactful Racial Justice and Transformational Changes Begin With the Urgency of Making Each Encounter Meaningful in Higher Education." Handbook of Research on Leading Higher Education Transformation With Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion, edited by Clint-Michael Reneau and Mary Ann Villarreal, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7152-1.ch001

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Sera, H. & Wall, A. F. (2021). Ichigo-Ichie: How Impactful Racial Justice and Transformational Changes Begin With the Urgency of Making Each Encounter Meaningful in Higher Education. In C. Reneau & M. Villarreal (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Leading Higher Education Transformation With Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion (pp. 1-17). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7152-1.ch001

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Sera, Hideko, and Andrew F. Wall. "Ichigo-Ichie: How Impactful Racial Justice and Transformational Changes Begin With the Urgency of Making Each Encounter Meaningful in Higher Education." In Handbook of Research on Leading Higher Education Transformation With Social Justice, Equity, and Inclusion, edited by Clint-Michael Reneau and Mary Ann Villarreal, 1-17. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7152-1.ch001

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Abstract

Racial justice dialogues in many U.S. higher education spaces have primarily stemmed from a desire to educate the uninformed. Many institutions have failed to attend to their students, faculty, and staff of color while focusing on providing “safe” places for the uninformed. Such efforts seem to have led to an extreme complacency of those who need to change the most to become disillusioned that they have done more than enough to contribute to race dialogues on campus. In the current sociopolitical climate in the United States, the U.S. higher education is facing unprecedented pressure to attend to the fundamental tension between those two worlds. In the Japanese language, ichigo-ichie (一期一会) is a famous saying that embodies the spirit of 'here and now'. Translated as “one time, one meeting,” it symbolizes the critical importance of how one encounter could lead to transformational changes. Contrary to the noble concept of 'trying again' many times before succeeding, ichigo-ichie poses this question: What if all we have is one time, one encounter, and one chance to get it right?

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