diversity issues in the workplace and profession
What does it mean?
Liberty and Justice For All
Freedom & Fairness
Philosophy
Law
Humanities
How can we think about Freedom?
Positive Liberty – Freedom to Negative Liberty – Freedom from
How can we think about Fairness?
Privilege – invisible backpack
Freedom
From the ideas of Positive and Negative Liberty follow the ideas of Positive and Negative Rights
Permit or Oblige Moral or Legal Action/Inaction
Sometimes these are in conflict
Freedom to/Freedom from
Medicine Abortion Assisted Suicide
Is there a general “obligation to care”? Is there a “special obligation” for
physicians?
Can we make connections between physicians and other professions? Allied Health professions?
Ethics Principle I, Rule C
“Individuals shall not discriminate in the delivery of professional services or the conduct of research and scholarly activities on the basis of race or ethnicity, gender, gender identity/gender expression, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability.”
http://www.asha.org/docs/html/ET2010-00309.html
ASHA on Diversity
ASHA
Statement on Cultural Competence, 2004
•provide ethically appropriate services to all populations
•while recognizing their own cultural/linguistic background
•prohibiting discrimination
•importance of lifelong learning to develop the knowledgeand skills required to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services
Available at http://www.asha.org/docs/pdf/ET2005-00174.pdf
Fairness
The “Invisible Backpack” Peggy McIntosh (1989): As a white person, I realized I had been
taught about racism as something which puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.
Cultural Capital Privilege Other-ness
Cultural Capital
Bourdieu (1986): Forms of knowledge, skills, education, and advantages that a person has, which give them a higher status in society.
Parents provide their children with cultural capital by transmitting the attitudes and knowledge needed to succeed in the current educational system
Privilege & Otherness
Advantage or entitlement given to or accrued by a social group
The group will often view their social, cultural, and economic experiences as a norm that everyone should experience or aspire to, rather than as an advantaged position that must be maintained at the expense of others
Other = people not in the group
What’s in the Backpack?
1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.
2. I can avoid spending time with people whom I was trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my kind or me.
3. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live.
4. I can be pretty sure that my neighbors in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me.
5. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed.
6. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.
7. When I am told about our national heritage or about "civilization," I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.
8. I can be sure that my children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race.
9. If I want to, I can be pretty sure of finding a publisher for this piece on white privilege.
10. I can be pretty sure of having my voice heard in a group in which I am the only member of my race.
http://sociology.wetpaint.com/page/Social+Privilege
Review
Liberty = Freedom
Positive & Negative
Obligations clarified by ASHA
Prohibit discrimination and build cultural competence
Justice = Fairness Invisible
Backpack Cultural Capital Privilege Other-ness
But what about the Rainbows?
RaceClassGenderSexualityReligionNationalityAgeAbility
SettingsSchool Hospital
Professional
ContextEvaluation
PlanTreatment
Relationships
ClientFamily
Colleagues
IssueNutritionDialect
ViolenceNorms
Matrix of Domination
Race Social ClassGender SexualityHeritage
Diversity of…
Group work – 30 minutes
“Two minute Summary” Read a meaningful passage - EACH In abstract – how does your material
relate to the concepts we have talked about (ideas of freedom, fairness, privilege, otherness?)
In what practical ways does the information inform how you might practice? For the “group” you are assigned In a broader sense
Lisa Delpit: The Silenced Dialogue/Educating Other People’s Children
Race/Nationality
Group 1
Jean Anyon: Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
Social Class
Group 2
Anna Spradlin: The Price of Passing
Ashley F: CLD Populations – GLBT Families in Schools
Group 3
David Corson: Language, Gender, and Education
Group 4
Dialect Diversity
& Everything else we can think of
Group 5
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.
Muriel Rukeyser, 1973
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