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In thinking about Sonia Sanchez words as a call to resist opression it’s been important for me to think about the connections between the ‘educated class’ and meritocracy. I want to use how Christopher Hayes looks into Meritocracy as being based on two assumptions: the principle of difference , and the principle of mobility. These often implicit assumptions place people into hirarchiarcal system according to ‘merit’. While mobility and difference place differnet values on those at the bottom and top of these hirarchies its immportant to note that this system is not only nessicarily equating the educated class as more deserving and better, but also devaluing the non-educated class. Her statement feels as a call to resist oppression …show more content…
This aura can be compared to cultural reproduction, and even cultural capital that reproduces dynamics of inequality. As Giroux complicated the notions of reproduction theories, it’s important to also recognize the agency that isn’t always made clear to individuals within this hirarchicarl school system. Here is where I think it is a call to action. A call to action to recognize the agency of individuals within the system as well as a broader recognition of the history, goals, and efforts made to create a supossed meritocratic …show more content…
On an interpersoanl level I believe we can resist opression and erase the aura of the educated class by being respectful and humbled by those who aren’t at these elite institutions. One way to do that is to value different forms of knowledge: this can be in or out of the classroom, but we need to begin to think of ways that we can hold multiple forms of knowledge and actively not devalue other forms that academia doesn’t always sanction. This can also look like expand definitions of what it means to be productive and ways in which we produce knowledge, one thing I am thinking about is the ways in which community engagement can be used to create change with communities and schools together even if it doesn’t result in a publishable
In thinking about Sonia Sanchez words as a call to resist opression it’s been important for me to think about the connections between the ‘educated class’ and meritocracy. I want to use how Christopher Hayes looks into Meritocracy as being based on two assumptions: the principle of difference , and the principle of mobility. These often implicit assumptions place people into hirarchiarcal system according to ‘merit’. While mobility and difference place differnet values on those at the bottom and top of these hirarchies its immportant to note that this system is not only nessicarily equating the educated class as more deserving and better, but also devaluing the non-educated class. Her statement feels as a call to resist oppression …show more content…
This aura can be compared to cultural reproduction, and even cultural capital that reproduces dynamics of inequality. As Giroux complicated the notions of reproduction theories, it’s important to also recognize the agency that isn’t always made clear to individuals within this hirarchicarl school system. Here is where I think it is a call to action. A call to action to recognize the agency of individuals within the system as well as a broader recognition of the history, goals, and efforts made to create a supossed meritocratic …show more content…
On an interpersoanl level I believe we can resist opression and erase the aura of the educated class by being respectful and humbled by those who aren’t at these elite institutions. One way to do that is to value different forms of knowledge: this can be in or out of the classroom, but we need to begin to think of ways that we can hold multiple forms of knowledge and actively not devalue other forms that academia doesn’t always sanction. This can also look like expand definitions of what it means to be productive and ways in which we produce knowledge, one thing I am thinking about is the ways in which community engagement can be used to create change with communities and schools together even if it doesn’t result in a publishable