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