A Hierarchical View of Differentiation and the Need to Examine Approaches Critically Towards Teaching In Relation to Gender, Subject Stream and Locality

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Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education [JASRAE] (Vol:4/ Issue: 8) DOI: 10.29070/JASRAE
Authors: Sunil,
Subjects: Multidisciplinary Academic Research

Year: Oct, 2012
Volume: 4 / Issue: 8
Pages: 0 - 0 (0)
Publisher: Ignited Minds Journals
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E-ISSN: 2230-7540
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Published URL: http://ipublisher.in/p/1371
Published On: Oct, 2012

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A Hierarchical View of Differentiation and the Need to Examine Approaches Critically Towards Teaching In Relation to Gender, Subject Stream and Locality |

Sunil, in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education | Multidisciplinary Academic Research

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ABSTRACT:

This hierarchical vision of social diversity draws onwhat Sleeter and Grant (1988) call a "deficiency orientation."Problems exist for those who are "different" from the norm--for limitedEnglish speakers, students of color, and so on. Learners were seen as varyingin the degree to which they differed from the norm. Respondents often describedin apparently sympathetic tones the" victims" of difference, theirneed for self-esteem, and a reaffirmation of their "right" toeducation.