DisCrit

What is DisCrit?

• A critique on how accessible schools are to disabled individuals

• The combination of Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory and its examinations of "the norm"

• The study of how ideas of whiteness have worked to empower a single group in history, and marginalizing others who didn't fit as "inferior"

• None of these

What is Critical Race Theory?

• The belief that students’ unique cultural strengths are identified to promote student achievement and a sense of well-being about the student’s cultural place in the world

• The theory of how educators need to bring awareness of students cultures into the classroom

• The idea that race is a social construct, and that racism is not just individual prejudice, its also embedded in legal systems/ policies

What is culturally responsive pedagogy?

• A student-centered approach in which the students’ unique cultural strengths are identified to promote student achievement

• A teacher centered approach where a few select cultures are taught about in a week of heritage appreciation

• A classroom structure that avoids discussion of culture, race, and ethnicity to avoid conflicting views

• A assignment framework where students need to research and write about a culture they know little about.

The second tenet of DisCrit states that it values " multidimensional identities and troubles singular notions of identity such as_____"

• race

• disability

• gender

• sexuality

• All the above

According to tenet three, “Discrit emphasizes the social constructions of race and ability and yet recognizes the _____ impacts of being labeled as raced or disabled"

• economical

• physical health

• material and psychological

• social

What is the full proper definition of disability?

• A limiting feature, either physical or mental, that prevents someone from full participating in "normal" activities

• A physical difference a person may have that is not part of the majority

• The social construct that limits the full societal participation and acceptance of those with impairments

• A mental difference someone may have that is not part of the majority

What is the full, proper definition of impairment?

• The physical, Psychological,

  or Mental condition itself

• The societal prejudice of having a physical difference

• The obstacles one faces due to being considered disabled

• The learning accommodations that may come with having a learning disability

According to tenet seven, is the following statement true or false?

“Discrit requires activism and supports all forms of resistance.”

• True

• False