From Diversity to Dignity: Overcoming Polarization in an Age of Division

Autor/inn/en	Craig, Byron B.; Loehwing, Melanie
Titel	From Diversity to Dignity: Overcoming Polarization in an Age of Division
Quelle	In: Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 21 (2021) 4, S.11-19 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1527-9316
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Equal Education; Inclusion; Student Diversity; Access to Education; Political Issues; Racial Discrimination; Racial Bias; Citizen Participation; Leadership; Social Justice; Student Needs; College Environment; African American Students; Student Leadership; College Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Inklusion; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Politischer Faktor; Racial bias; Rassismus; Racial discrimination; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Führung; Führungsposition; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Hochschulumwelt; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Studentenwerk
Abstract	This article promotes closer rhetorical analysis of the current trend in higher education to institutionalize equity, inclusion, diversity, and access (EIDA) work without routinely interrogating the orienting terms used in such efforts. It may be easy to mistake the intentions of EIDA work as determining its value, thus discouraging a critical examination of the rhetorical outcomes it produces and the rhetorical effects it invites. We suggest that one insight such analysis could offer is a better account of the rhetorical constraints of the term "diversity." In this article, we review a range of compelling critiques that have been offered of the limitations of "diversity" as it appears in higher education discourse. We suggest "dignity" as a promising alternative to "diversity" as an alternate orienting term for EIDA work in higher education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01