EDUC459 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Match Racing, Professional Responsibility
15 Feb 2018
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Some guiding principles for race literacy development Race can be a difficult topic to discuss. Learning about race is ongoing for all of us. Foster investigation, don"t need to have consensus on opinions. Foster responsibility and agency, not guilt or sense of helplessness. Social identities that make up the teaching course and the students. Trajectory is that the demographics in the student bodies are becoming more diverse. Increase in diversity has not been matched with increase in diversity in teaching force. Visible (to an extent), but more important: salient nature of race. Disparities in educational outcomes and opportunity along race/class and urban/suburban lines. Difficulty many people have in talking about race - especially dominant race group members. Research evidence shows that engaging in dialogue and learning about race leads to social. System for classifying people often based on physical characteristics. Within group variation vs. between group variation.
