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Part 1
Answer these 4 concepts. The concepts below should be composed of detailed written answers in an essay form using relevant ideas, concepts and examples from lectures and readings. Be concise and try to limit your answers to 3 double-spaced pages (750 words) for each question by focusing on the main ideas and examples (identify, discuss/analyze its significance to the study of Race and Diversity in Education in Canada and give example(s) supporting/emphasizing your answers).
1. Define, give examples and significance of Indigenous Worldview that informs the ontological and epistemological, framework through which the world appears.
2. Define, contrast, give examples and significance of the concepts ‘emphasized femininity’ and ‘hegemonic masculinity’.
3. Using course readings/lectures identify the cons and pros of standardized testing in Canada to students/teachers.
4. Discus, analyze and give examples of ‘racial ambiguity’ illustrating how ethno-racial categories are socially constructed.
Part 2
You will answer this essay question integrating course material and key concepts with analytical insight and clarity by referencing course reading materials. You will limit your answer to 5 double-spaced pages (1250 words)
1. Sefa Dei (2011) defines antiracism education “as an action-oriented strategy” for institutional, systemic change to address racism and the interlocking systems of social oppression. Taking Dei’s quote as a starting point discuss and analyze the importance of ‘global ani-racist education’ towards social justice that must be inclusive, holistic, and a global human liberation
Please use what is necessary for the topic for references from the course. Readings from the course:
1. Sociological Perspectives
Durkheim, Marx, and Weber (why do we need a theoretical perspective? Why do we need Social Sciences)?
REQUIRED READINGS:
MARX, DURKHEIM AND WEBER
Karlsson, J. C., & Månson, P. (2017). Concepts of Work in Marx, Durkheim, and Weber.
https://hiof.brage.unit.no/hiof-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2560182/KarlssonConcepts.pdf?sequence=2
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introtosociology/chapter/sociological-perspectives/
https://www.academia.edu/12292811/The_Three_Main_Sociological_Perspectives
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Marx
https://people.uvawise.edu/pww8y/Supplement/TMSup/Ritzer%20MdScTh%202008/04M odScTh%20NeoMarx.pdf
2. Critical Race Theory
REQUIRED READINGS:
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory and Hallmark Critical Race Theory Themes, Critical Race Theory, 3rd Edition, (New York, New Race Critical Theory (Pg. 1-35)
https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/richard_delgado_jean_stefancic_critical_race_thbookfi-org-1.pdf
Video: The urgency of intersectionality- K. Crenshaw
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=aaplw&p=Kimberl%C3%A9+Crenshaw%2C+ted+tralk#id=3&vid=4edbc3579c0f5aab8466a612f95e77a9&action=view
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Viola Desmond case: http://blackhistorycanada.ca/profiles.php?themeid=4&id=13
Dominique Clement, “Anti-Discrimination Legislation”, p.47-55 (Scott Library e-book)
Bell, D -Who is Afraid of Critical Race Theory? http://lawdawghall.blogspot.ca/2012/03/derrick- bell -whos-afraid-of-critical.html Criminal Law and Justice System Practices as Racist, White …
scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?.
3. Feminist Theories, Sexuality, and Inequity
REQUIRED READINGS
Feminist Theoryhttps://student.cc.uoc.gr/uploadFiles/181-%CE%9A%CE%9C%CE%9C%CE%9A397/Simpson%20Feminist%20Theory%20crime%20and%20justice.pdf
Improving the Health Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
http://www.lgbthealtheducation.org/wp-content/uploads/12-054_LGBTHealtharticle_v3_07-09-12.pdf
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Das Gupta, T. Racism in nursing, Racism and Paid Work (online copy in Scott Library), p.69-88.
James W. St. G. Walker, Quong Wing and Quong Sing cases, p. 51-56, 83-90, 90-100, 100-106 from “Race”, Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada. (e-book from Scott Library);
4. Misrepresentation of Indigenous Knowledge/Historical Absences
REQUIRED READINGS:
S, Dion. (2004). (Re)telling to Disrupt: Aboriginal People and Stories of Canadian History. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 2(1), 55-76.
S, Dion. (2008). Historical Amnesia and the Discourse of the Romantic, Mythical Other. In Braiding Histories: Learning from Aboriginal Peoples’ Experiences and Perspectives. UBC Press.
Chapter excerpted from Braiding Histories: Learning from Aboriginal People’s Experiences and Perspectives by Susan D. Dion. https://www.ubcpress.ca/asset/9065/1/9780774815178.pdf
Video:
“Dr. Susan Dion – The Historical Timeline as Lesson” (The Learning Exchange, 2018, 48mins)
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Sources and scope of indigenous Legal traditions cited in Canada’s Indigenous Constitution by John Borrows, University of Toronto Press, 2010- 03-20
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/york/reader.action?docID=3272737&p pg=34
5. Theorizing race and racism – how do we explain it?
Active Reading/Reflection Assignment Due Today!
REQUIRED READINGS:
Satzewich, Chapter 2; Frances Henry et al, The Equity Myth, p.13-17 (available from Scott Library); Dominique Clement, “Introduction”, p.3-16. Canada’s Rights Revolution
(e-book available from Scott Library)
Abrams, L. S., and Moio, J. A. “Critical Race Theory and the Cultural Competence Dilemma in Social Work Education.“
DiAngelo, R. (2011). White fragility. The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3).
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the White Knapsack”
McIntosh1989_White-Privilege.pdf (short version)
6. Racism and settler colonialism and dispossession
REQUIRED READINGS:
Not Enough Human: At the Scenes of Indigenous and Black Dispossession. Author(s): Latty, Stephanie; Scribe, Megan; Peters, Alena; Anthony. Critical ethnic studies, 2016, Vol. 2 (2), P.129-158. https://ocul-yor.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_YOR/j50f41/cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A471851748
Badwall, H.K. (2014). Colonial encounters: Racialized social workers negotiating professional scripts of whiteness. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal Of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, And Practice, [s.l.], v. 3, p. 1–23.
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Enakshi Dua (2021). Our Canadian Culture Has Been Squeamish about Gathering Race-Based Statistics”: The Circulation of Discourse of Race and Whiteness among Canadian Universities, Newspapers, and Alt-Right Groups( pp 196-244; 49 pages )
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/york/reader.action?docID=6799070&ppg=211
Indigenous and Racialized Children: Child Welfare, Discrimination and Care Doret Phillips and Gordon Pon, Anti-Black Racism, Bio-power and Governmentality: Deconstructing the Suffering of Black Families and Involved with Child Welfare (Part 1). Journal of Law and Society vol. 28 (2008)
7. The Power and Purpose of Schooling
REQUIRED READINGS:
Westheimer, J. & Kahne, J. (2004). “What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy.” American Educational Research Journal, 41(2): 237-269.
Why Public Schools? Voices From the United States and Canada (pp. 13-20). Cha Canada (pp. 13-20). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Patel, Leigh. “When Justice is a Lackey.” In Toward What Justice?: Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education. Eds. Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. New York: Routledge, 2018. T. R. Young, “A Constitutive theory of Justice: Architecture and Content” A Constitutive
8. Cultural Hegemony, Ethnicity and Race
REQUIRED READINGS:
James, C.E. (2010). Ch.1 & 2 pp. 1-45 in Seeing Ourselves.
Videos:
“What Systemic Racism in Canada Looks Like” (CBC, 2020, 10 mins) “The Skin We’re In” (Desmond Cole, 2017, 44 mins)
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Mercado, A. (2019). Mediated images of success: Hegemonic media representations and social justice. Communication Teacher, 33(2), 94–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2018.1500701
9. Race and the Social Construction of Identity
REQUIRED READING:
James, C.E. (2010). Ch. 3 pp. 46-91 in Seeing Ourselves.
Vaught, S. & Castagno, A. (2012). “‘I Don’t Think I’m a Racist’: Critical Race Theory, Teacher
Attitudes and Structural Racism”, Race Ethnicity and Education, 11(2), 95-113.
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Shih, M., Bonam, C., Sanchez, D., & Peck, C. (2007). The Social Construction of Race: Biracial Identity and Vulnerability to Stereotypes. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 13(2), 125–133. https://doi.org/10.1037/1099-9809.13.2.125
REQUIRED READING:
James, C.E. (2010). Ch.5 pp. 131-168 in Seeing Ourselves.
James, C.E. (2005). “The Ties That Bind: Thinking Through the Praxis of Multicultural and Anti-Racism Education in Canadian Context” pp. 41-59 in Engaging Equity.
Walcott, R. (2019). “The End of Diversity”. Public Culture, 31(2), 393-408.
10. Examining the Limits of Multiculturalism
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Himani Bannerji, On the Dark Side of the Nation: Politics of Multiculturalism and The State of Canada. AKA “Rudhro don’t forget to bring samosas to the we love Multiculturalism party!” June 3, 2011
Dominique Clement, « A Farce of Citizenship: Japanese Canadians, p.41-42 (e-book available in Scott Library);
Mona Oikawa, Cartographies of Violence, Introduction (p.3-4), Ch. 4 (p. 95-105) (e-book available in Scott Library).
11. Assessing the Merits of Canadian Immigration
REQUIRED READING:
James, C.E. (2010). Ch.6 pp. 170-201 in Seeing Ourselves.
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Sharma, N. (2012). “The ‘Difference’ that Borders Make: ‘Temporary Foreign Workers’ and the Social Organization of Unfreedom in Canada” (pp. 26-47). In P.T Lenard & C. Straehle, C (eds.), Legislated Inequality: Temporary Labour Migration in Canada. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
12. Race, Privilege, Difference and Equity
REQUIRED READING:
James, C.E., (2010). Ch 7 & 8 Pg. 211-270 in Seeing Ourselves.
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
James, C.E. & Turner, T. (2017). “Part 2: The Current Context” pp. 6-19 in Towards Race Equity in Education: The Schooling of Black Students in the Greater Toronto Area. Toronto: York University.
13. White Privilege in Education
REQUIRED READING:
Burleigh, D. & Burm, S. (2013). “Unpacking Our White Privilege: Reflecting on Our Teaching Practices”. In Education, 19(2). https://ineducation.ca/ineducation/article/view/133/604
Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the White Knapsack”
McIntosh1989_White-Privilege.pdf (short version)
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Charles Mills, The Racial Contract. Cornell University Press, 1999. Introduction (p. 1-8); and Overview: The Racial Contract (p. 9-40)
14. Racism in Educational Sites
REQUIRED READING:
Gilborn, D. (2005). “Sustaining Oppression and Maintaining the Status Quo” pp. 99-108 in Engaging Equity.
Kearns, L. (2011). “High-stakes Standardized Testing and Marginalized Youth: An Examination of the Impact on Those Who Fail.” Canadian Journal of Education, 34(2), 112-130.
Podcast:
“Racism in Education” (The Current CBC Podcast, 2020, 20 mins)
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Priest, N., Alam, O., Truong, M., Sharples, R., Nelson, J., Dunn, K., Francis, K. L., Paradies, Y., & Kavanagh, A. (2021). Promoting proactive bystander responses to racism and racial discrimination in primary schools: a mixed methods evaluation of the ‘Speak Out Against Racism’ program pilot. BMC Public Health, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11469-2
15. Towards a ‘Praxis’ of Anti-racism
REQUIRED READING:
Dei, G. (2014). “Personal Reflections on Anti-Racism Education for a Global Context”. Encounters on Education, 15, 239-249.
Examining Curriculum through a Critical Antiracist Lens http://www.catesoljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CJ33-1_Schmier_Grant.pdf
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Race, Indigeneity and Anti-Colonial Education: Making Discursive”. Featuring keynote speaker Professor George J. Sefa Dei and his talk on “Race, Indigeneity and Anti-Colonial Education: Making Discursive”. The presentation focusses on making discursive links between race, Indigeneity, decolonization and anticolonial education.
16. Indigenous Knowledge and Pedagogy
REQUIRED READING:
Simpson, L. B. (2014). “Land as Pedagogy: Nishnaabeg Intelligence and Rebellious Transformation,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3(3), 1-25
Iseke-Barnes, J. (2008). “Pedagogies for Decolonizing”. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 31(1), 123-149.
Podcast:
“Dr. Dwayne Donald – Indigenous Perspectives” (Intersection Education, 2018, 56 min) Due: In-Class Group Presentation 5 & 6
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Debate over usefulness of standardized tests in school (Sept. 2019)
https://globalnews.ca/video/5852192/debate-over-uefulness-of-standardized-tests-in-school
BNN Bloomberg’s Amanda Lang discusses why standardized testing is a “ham-fisted” way to measure performance as Ontario considers implementing annual mandatory math tests for teachers.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/economics/video/amanada-lang-ontario-plan-shows-how-absurd-standarized-tests-are~1654120
New report show Manitoba student test scores are among the worst in the country (2019).
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1652544067835
17. Gender, Violence and Schooling
REQUIRED READING:Ringrose, J., & Renold, E. (2010). “Normative Cruelties and Gender Deviants: The Performative Effects of Bully Discourses for Girls and Boys in School”. British Educational Research Journal, 36 (4), 573-596.
Winton, S. & Tuters, S. (2015). “Constructing Bullying in Ontario, Canada: A Critical Policy Analysis”. Educational Studies, 41 (1-2). DOI: 10.1080/03055698.2014.955737
18. Gendered Education
REQUIRED READING:
Kelly, D.M., Pomerantz, S., & Currie, D. (2005). “Skater Girlhood and Emphasized Femininity: ‘You Can’t Land an Ollie Properly in Heels’.” Gender and Education, 17(3), 229-248
Pendleton Jiménez, K. (2016). “‘I Love Barbies…I am a Boy: Gender Happiness for Social Justice Education”. Sexuality, Society and Learning, 16(4), DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2015.1067195
19. Critical Pedagogy for Social Change
REQUIRED READING:
1. Josephine H. Pham & Thomas M. Philip (2021) Shifting education reform towards anti-racist and intersectional visions of justice: A study of pedagogies of organizing by a teacher of Color, Journal of the Learning Sciences, 30:1, 27-51, DOI: 10.1080/10508406.2020.1768098
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
Tarlau, R. (2014). From a Language to a Theory of Resistance: Critical Pedagogy, the Limits of “Framing,” and Social Change. Educational Theory, 64(4), 369–392. https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12067
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