What does the CoC mean at technical workshops, and how do we teach instructors to enforce it? #147
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This topic came up in our IT last week, although @JCSzamosi I'm not sure where you're seeing the recommendation about the police - I can't find it in the workshop material (https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/21-management/index.html) or the CoC page (https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/policies/code-of-conduct.html). We reiterated part 2.3 of the CoC, especially "the organisers may warn the offender, ask them to leave the event or platform"; we felt it was very important that instructors recognise that they have the absolute right to ask someone to leave and they are under no obligation to deal with inappropriate behaviour further or make any other allowances. The Carpentries is not a service industry where you're often expected to put up with bad behaviour just because someone's a customer; we're a community with community standards that all members are expected to observe. We also talked about having the responsibility of talking to the offender assigned to someone as part of pre-workshop planning; many of our instructors may not feed comfortable 'confronting' someone in this way, so it's important to identify who on the instructor/helper team is willing to take on that responsibility. |
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Tagging the @carpentries/code-of-conduct-committee and @fmichonneau as the Core Team CoC liaison for input on this. |
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I don't know if this directly answers the question, but it is related. Another thing we have done in MetaDocencia is to present different situations that can occur in the classroom so that we can reflect and discuss together to see how we could react and what to do. I learned in the RStudio certification and the Workshop for being a better ally by Open Life Science (https://openlifesci.org/posts/2020/10/05/ally-skills-training/) that people who have thought at least once in a situation like this are more likely to do something and do it effectively. Hence, it seems that community discussion and trainers' meetings could be excellent spaces for this kind of "training." |
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I promised to share scenarios we used in training given in Spanish. The scenarios are for the DEI module, so not all of them have to do with CoC, but I hope they are helpful. In Spanish, sorry. Scenario 1: Scenario 2: Scenario 3: Scenario 4 (from Greg's slides): Scenario 5: Scenario 6: Scenario 7: Scenario 8: |
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These are very good! Thanks so much for both versions! |
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Something that was raised in our recent workshop, and is becoming more relevant with many workshops being taught online is that it would be good to have more guidance on how to enforce the CoC online for in-the-moment responses |
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I'm wondering how people are talking about CoC violations and enforcement at their instructor trainings.
Prepping for the training we're doing this week, I'm noticing that the guidelines for responding to CoC violations say very little about responding to incidents in the moment. The only in the moment action suggested is calling first responders/police, and then it moves straight to things like reporting to committee. I know the CoC guidelines are under active development, and I don't want to rush that process, but even as a temporary measure I'm pretty uncomfortable with "call the cops" being the only in-the-moment suggestion. I'm interested in knowing how people are teaching this section during instructor trainings, and also wondering if we can add a few more options into the guidelines as a stop-gap while they are developed, so we're not each making it up on the fly.
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