Guided Discussion on Equity and Care
Maha Bali, PhD @bali_maha
Center for Learning & Teaching, American University in Cairo,
Virtually Connecting & Equity Unbound
ASCN, December 2022
السلام عليكم
How are you feeling today?
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What brings you joy these days?
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What is a supportive practice you’ve experienced as a teacher?
“Teachers who care, who serve their students, are usually at odds with the environments wherein we teach”
bell hooks, 2003,Teaching in Community, p. 91
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How have institutions hindered your ability to care for students?
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How have institutions hindered your ability to care for colleagues?
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What is EQUITY without CARE and what is CARE without EQUITY?
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We asked on Twitter…
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No Care
Care
Equity
Inequity
TOKENISM?
DIVERSITY THEATER?
LIP SERVICE?
SYSTEMIC?
PERFORMANCE? رياء
SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE
SELECTIVE & AFFECTIVE LABOR?
AMELIORATIVE?
BAND-AID?
” Care labour is shared unfairly and violently in most societies, along lines of gender, provenance, race, class, ability, and age. Some are forced to care, while some defend their privilege of expecting service. This has to change.”
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Inequity
No Care
Care
Equity
SOCIALLY JUST
CARE
CONTRACTUAL
EQUITY
SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE
PARTIAL
CARE
Bali & Zamora (2022). Equity/Care Matrix: Theory & Practice. Italian Journal of Educational Technology
Noddings, N. (2012). The language of care ethics. Knowledge Quest, 40(5), 52. Bali, M. (2020). https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/do-unto-students-they-would-have-done-them
How do you check in with students or involve them in decisions on how they prefer to be “cared for”?
Can we establish constructive “peer evaluation” practices that give teachers a say in criteria used to assess them?
Can we create socially just (distributed) care systems where faculty co-mentor each other? And get rewarded for doing so?
“justice needs care because justice requires the empathy of care in order to generate its principles”
(White & Tronto, 2004, p. 427, citing Okin 1990).
"when… the cared-for is unable to respond in a way that completes the relation, the work of the carer becomes more and more difficult. Carers in this position need the support of a caring community to sustain them" (Noddings, 2012, p. 54).
Examples of Equity without Care
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Examples of Care without Equity
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Example of Equity & Care need:
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Community-
building resources:
Equity Unbound
&
OneHE
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Question from participant:
“I want to have a quicker and better way of assessing / evaluating if the JEDI / DEI practices I'm employing are "landing" / making a difference with student thinking.”
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Intentionally Equitable Hospitality
Bali, Caines, DeWaard, Hogue & Friedrich, 2019
Also: Bali & Zamora, 2022
Intentionally Equitable Hospitality to redress injustice with care (in classes, in departments)
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Phase | Examples |
Pre-Design | Who is involved in the design? Who is the accreditor/quality assurance decision-maker, and what are their impositions? How might they privilege certain groups over others? How might we dismantle or resist that? |
Design | Does the design anticipate or respond to inequalities? Which oppressions does it redress? Which might it reproduce? |
Facilitation | “Intentional adaptation” (brown) to new inequalities that arise in the moment, is “generous authority” used? (Priya Parker) |
Beyond the moment | How do you build inclusive/equitable community sustainably? |
How might we re-think the ways we evaluate teaching such that:
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We value and reward care practices, recognizing that they have inherent value, and that caring for students’ socioemotional needs also promotes better learning.
How might we re-think the ways we evaluate teaching such that:
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We recognize differences in context, culture, and teaching philosophies
How might we re-think the ways we evaluate teaching such that:
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Evaluation becomes a constructive supportive process that helps the instructor improve?
How might we re-think the ways we evaluate teaching such that:
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It is a collaborative process among peers and with students?
How might we re-think the ways we evaluate teaching such that:
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It promotes diverse modes of expression and diverse evidence, including storytelling and non-quantifiable important elements that cannot be measured, and dismantles hidden and explicit oppression?
TRIZ
Modified TRIZ (a liberating structure - working backwards to solve complex problems)
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Girl upside down in a clothesline from Pixabay
Our real goal: to promote socially just care in classes & departments
TRIZ Anti-goal: If our goal was to devalue/discourage socially just care in classes and departments, what would we do?
Alone, then in groups on Jamboard link odd numbers - class focus; even numbers, department focus
What in your own practice resembles in any way what you or others have listed?
What can you PERSONALLY do on your own within your control/influence? What do you need help with or allies? What is a first step?
Useful Resources (Peer Observation)
What is a key takeaway today?
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Thank You!
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