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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
1. How is difference defined and how are difference and diversity related?
1. Check your understanding
2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
2. Where does ‘difference as deficiency’ come from and how can we interrupt the practice of pathologizing children?
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2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
3. What are the markers of difference and how are they related to children’s developing sense of who they are in relation to others?
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2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
4. What does it mean to honour children’s right to be different?
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2. Extend your understanding
3. Apply your understanding
Resources
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Difference: As a social concept, difference tends to characterize people in terms of simplistic binaries instead of acknowledging how complex individuals and their identities are. For example, the dominant concept of gender presents a binary of male/female, ignoring the multiple ways in which people define their gender identities.
Intersectionality: Intersectionality is a way of understanding how our many identities (gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and ability) comes together in our experiences and reflect systems such as oppression and privilege at the societal level.
Concept of difference: The idea of being different in some respect is not positive as it tends to position particular traits or behaviours are being negative or inferior. For example, if a child who uses a wheelchair is labelled as being “differently-abled”, it suggests that they are deficient or incapable. The focus becomes the way they are “different” rather than on all the child’s strengths and capabilities.
Diversity: Diversity is a preferable term to “difference” because it has a more positive meaning. It acknowledges that there are multiple ways of being in the world.