EDU211 Study Guide - Final Guide: Human Capital, White Privilege, Verbal Abuse

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Education
• Course: EDU211
• Professor: Dwayne Donald

Document Summary

It is important to acknowledge your own hurts, but it is also important to acknowledge that there are different kinds of hurt and different scales of huty\ The versions of the planet where written and directed by white people. Absent presence- idea that only white people are talked about. People of other colors are taken out of history, life. Have to have power to be racist. You are not responsible for the wrongs committed before you were born, but you can"t escape the legacy of those wrongs. Try to use discomfort to pose new questions to yourself and seek new insights. Distinguish between the hurt that someone who is privileged might feel and the systemic pervasive wounds that are sustained by people who face racism, sexism etc. Values your experiences as sources of learning and wisdom about yourself and the larger society.