Tag: structural ideology
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Changelog: Equity is not compatible with deficit ideology because the function of deficit ideology is to obscure the actual causes of disparities.
We updated “Deficit Ideology”, “Structural Ideology”, and “Equity” with quotes from Paul Gorski and “Fix Injustice, Not Kids and Other Principles for Transformative Equity Leadership”. Equity is not compatible with deficit ideology because the function of deficit ideology is to obscure the actual causes of disparities. Paul Gorski So we define equity as the active…
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Accommodations: Individualized Responses to Structural Design Problems
The accommodations for natural human variation should be mutual. @laurenancona Yet on a programmatic basis, disability policy and other social programs remain enmeshed, even at their best, in accommodation models, where specific proven needs or deficits generate specific individualized responses. What might it look like to shift our framing of the social safety net to…
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Fundamental Attribution Error and Harm Reduction Theater
‘The irony of turning schools into therapeutic institutions when they generate so much stress and anxiety seems lost on policy-makers who express concern about children’s mental health’ ClassDojo app takes mindfulness to scale in public education | code acts in education Mindfulness matters, but make no mistake: Corporations are co-opting the idea to disguise the…