Week 10 Flashcards
Equality vs equity
Equality is treating everyone the same while equity is treating everyone differently based upon need
The whole idea of special education is based on ________
Equity
Goals of social justice
Understand inequities and disparities exist
Understand how to address them
Work to eliminate them
Passive Racism
Apathy towards systems of racial advantage or denial that those systems exist
3 contributing factors to passive racism
Ignorance, Denial, Observation of inaction in others
Anti-racism
A system of equity based on race that is created and maintained by a dynamic interplay between psychological factors and sociopolitical factors
Anti-racism and social justice focus on __________ rather than individual racism
structural racism
In special education, there has historically been underrepresentation and overrepresentation of racially minoritized students as disabled (True/False)
True
The disability categories in which disproportionality is most common are those considered most subjective and subject to error (True/False)
True
What is special education process associated with?
Stigma, lowered expectations, reduced access to general education academic and social curricula
What can SPs do about disproportionality?
Have an ecological orientation
Be mindful of biases
Improve general education and prevention (Tier 1)
Improve special education decision making
What can SPs do to promote social justice?
Support stigmatizied, marginalized and vulnerable students
Incorporation of DEI topics for staff and students
Delivery of culturally responsive, developmentally appropriate and academically engaging curricula
Elimination of zero tolerance discipline policies
Criticisms of DEI
White politicians in conservative states
Focus primarily on racial/gender identity rather than other areas
Emphasizing differences rather than similarities
Too great an emphasis on policing language
