Tag: epistemic injustice
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Professor Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning
In this talk, Guy Claxton warns against the scientism and epistemic injustice of “The Science of Learning” and proposes something very much aligned with our notions of collaborative niche construction, toolbelt theory, collaboration, and iteration. These contribute to what Claxton calls “epistemic apprenticeship”.
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DEI-AB and Their Adversaries
What are diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging? What are their narrative adversaries? We provide a glossary of terms below. Follow the links for deeply sourced reference materials.
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14 Obstacles to DEI-AB and Neurodiversity Affirming Practice
Getting human-centered, neurodiversity affirming, progressive practices into education, healthcare, and other systems is a battle, a grueling and grinding battle through bad narratives and bad framing. framing = mental structures that shape the way we see the world Our community of neurodivergent and disabled people encounters the following narratives over-and-over with dreadful regularity. They are…
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The Lack of Listening in Healthcare
Our allies at Human Restoration Project shared the efforts of their friends at Cortico on “human listening” and “community listening”. I’m here for human listening and community listening and participatory research. As I dive back into the medical model for another round of treatment, I again profoundly feel the lack of listening and the weight…
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Reading the World: Conspiratorialism, Schismogenesis, and Epistemic Injustice
Inspired by Trevor Aleo’s work, I’ve been reading up on Paulo Freire’s “reading the world”, a concept I like a lot. I feel like Stimpunks work around reframing, epistemic justice, scientism, lateral reading, and critical thinking is much about teaching how to read the world. Reading the world is especially important in our multimedia disinformation…
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Scientism begets epistemic injustice. Syncretic traversal of semiotic domains begets epistemic justice and created serendipity.
This experimental piece leads with a very dense passage that uses specialist language from multiple semiotic domains. Terms are linked to our glossary. We fed the passage with links to AI several times and blended the output, resulting in an “unpacked” plain language version. The Passage Scientism begets epistemic injustice. Syncretic traversal of semiotic domains…
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The Act of Listening: Work that does not honor what a community says is colonial.
Work that does not honor what a community says is colonial. The act of listening is really, really powerful. Keynote: The Game Has Changed – Cornelius Minor | CTRH! 2023 – YouTube Those lines from Cornelius Minor’s keynote at the Conference to Restore Humanity remind me of a saying in disability and neurodiversity communities: Nothing…
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Changelog: Engage With the Epistemic Disruptions That Are Necessary if We Are to Change the World
We updated “Change” with a selection from “Keynote: A Critical Reflection on Our Struggle for a More Just and Loving World – Dr. Antonia Darder”. …engage with the epistemic disruptions that are necessary if we are to change the world. Keynote: A Critical Reflection on Our Struggle for a More Just and Loving World –…
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Stimpunks Invites You to Join Us Online at the Conference to Restore Humanity 2023 on July 24th
We were at last year’s Conference to Restore Humanity and are attending again this year. This online conference includes us like no other. Now we have the opportunity and understanding to move from emergency pandemic remote school and its pantomime of learning to purposefully designed online education spaces that are accessible, sustainable, and representative of the communities…
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Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #3: Mental Health and Epistemic Justice
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. We dedicate this issue to epistemic justice, something sorely missing in the treatment of neurodivergent and disabled people’s mental health. Negative stereotypes stifle voices and useful tools. Lack of epistemic justice proliferates harm.
