INEQUALITY MATTERS:
SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION
Institutional Inequality
• Sites (discriminatory practices + design, foundational pples)
• Reproduce - reinforce negativity in society - negatively impact on certain demographics
Institutional Accommodation /Inclusion/inclusivity
• Definition- Process + framework
- adjusting institutional design, rules, operation, climate, rewards to reasonably accommodate minority disadvantages
- to make inst/workplace more reflective, respective, responsive
- Creating a service that is available, accessible, appropriate
EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING AS PARADOXES
• Sites of equality yet inequality• Reproduce inequality• What is education/schooling really for? - socialization = assimilation + control* Criticism as too this, too that
MONOCULTURAL VS MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
MONOCULTURAL EDUCATION MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
• Residential school system
• Aboriginality in the Academy?
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
ENRICHMENT ENLIGHTENMENT EMBRACIVE EMPOWERMENT
• Islamic focus schools
• Afrocentric schools
ANTI RACIST SCHOOLING vs MC EDUCATION
MC EDUCATION ANTI RACIST SCHOOLING
UNIVERSITIES:IDENTITY CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE
ELITE (MALE FINISHING SCHOOLS) INSTITUTION
MASS/DEMOCRATIZING POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
• Racialized, gendered, classed inequalities
• But…. - commercialization, - academic freedom, - pale-male towers *
Media and Inequality
Analyze social inequalities in mainstream media
Representations of diversity/gender/class (ch3)
Advances = “Couched in compromise” - Little Mosque + Dove campaign
Impact on society /implications for social inequality
Multicultural Challenges
• Create an inclusive Canada- No one excluded for reasons beyond control - “integrated, socially cohesive COMM-UNITY”- 19% racialized + 20% newcomers + 4%
Aboriginal Peoples
• Create accommodative/inclusive media
Media, Minorities, & Inclusivity• Why are media important?
• What is the problem?
• How is problem expressed?
• Explaining why problem exists? - attitudes (prejudice/racism) - structure of media - media as soft propaganda
• Is there still a problem? - entertainment vs news
Power of Media • Powerful (we live in media, not with media)
• Public discourse, agenda setting, role modelling
• Preliminary/Only point of contact
• Media framing (organize info to draw attention to encourage preferred reading consistent with vested interests + media bias)
• Not what to think but what to think about
* Media Not Neutral but socially constructed/ideologically loaded/commercially driven
Media Framing of Minorities*Invisible Problem people
Stereotyped Whitewashed/Othered
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Accounting for the Misrepresentation
• Personal and structural factors• Media as soft propaganda
Newsmedia coverage
• Newsmedia = medium of the negative• G/M + NP headlines of diversity from 2009-2010
• G/M = 383 headlines +53, -255• NP = 417 headlines +25, -311
• Total 10%+ 70%-
Gendered Media
• Media = gendered (androcentric)• Media Representations of Women = good, the bad, the shifting
• Changes = more apparent than real - “Dove campaign for real beauty”