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Disrupting deficit: the power of ‘the pause’ in resisting the dominance of deficit knowledges in education
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Humphry, N, Disrupting deficit: the power of the pause' in resisting the dominance of deficit knowledges in education, International Journal of Inclusive Education, 18, (5) pp. 484- 499. ISSN 1464-5173 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2013 Taylor & Francis
DOI: doi:10.1080/13603116.2013.789087
Abstract
Deficit ways of speaking about educationally displaced young people are a
dominant feature in the language educators draw on to make sense of particular
young people. This language can have debilitating effects on the lives of those
young people it is applied to. Despite well over 20 years of critique, deficit
truths have remained dominant. However, in one Australian organisation, this
dominance is being resisted. The resistance makes its appearance through an
active silence I have termed ‘the pause’. The notion of ‘the pause’ came from
teacher interviews in an ethnographic study of four alternative schools in one
Australian organisation working with young people experiencing the extremes of
disadvantage. I use the Foucaultian notion of silence to explore the suggestion
that ‘the pause’ is one tactic deployed by this organisation, working to both
resist and disrupt the dominance of deficit knowledges. I argue that these
educators’ deployment of ‘the pause’ demonstrates their formation of a space
where new language about these young people is engaged.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | silence, deficit, education, educational disadvantage, Foucault |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Education policy, sociology and philosophy |
Research Field: | Sociology of education |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Schools and learning environments |
Objective Field: | Equity and access to education |
UTAS Author: | Humphry, N (Dr Nicoli Barnes) |
ID Code: | 136712 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 6 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2020-01-15 |
Last Modified: | 2020-05-20 |
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