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

*

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”