#epistemicinjustice — Public Fediverse posts
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So no. Autistic people are not ‘just making it up because society is crap’.
The reality is more like this:
Society is often crap, and autistic people are then forced to explain their real differences through a diagnostic system built around pathology, gatekeeping, and disbelief.
End of 🧵
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Then, as we’re not listened to, society's understanding of autism develops without us.🤷🏽♀️
That flawed understanding is then used to overrule us, again.
Strange little loop. ➰
6/11
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AI didn’t just flatten my writing.
It reassigned me.
My last name was changed.
That’s not understanding.
That’s probability resolving identity.I was logged in.
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AI summarized one of my articles.
It caught one convergent idea and stopped there.
The point wasn’t lost.
It was removed.Not what I ... 😡 ... wrote.
https://knowprose.com/2026/03/wrong-answer-ai-thats-not-what-i-wrote/
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I think we autistics might know all this in our bones. In our hearts. Somewhere, anyway… but usually on an instinctive level.
Even if we’re not aware of our reasons or motivations, and instead struggle with shame and self-doubt (just as we’re encouraged and socialized to do).
But… clarity is the enemy of oppression!
It replaces confusion with transparency. It throws light on the landscape 🔦
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I think we autistics might know all this in our bones. In our hearts. Somewhere, anyway… but usually on an instinctive level.
Even if we’re not aware of our reasons or motivations, and instead struggle with shame and self-doubt (just as we’re encouraged and socialized to do).
But… clarity is the enemy of oppression!
It replaces confusion with transparency. It throws light on the landscape 🔦
⬇️
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I think we autistics might know all this in our bones. In our hearts. Somewhere, anyway… but usually on an instinctive level.
Even if we’re not aware of our reasons or motivations, and instead struggle with shame and self-doubt (just as we’re encouraged and socialized to do).
But… clarity is the enemy of oppression!
It replaces confusion with transparency. It throws light on the landscape 🔦
⬇️
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I think we autistics might know all this in our bones. In our hearts. Somewhere, anyway… but usually on an instinctive level.
Even if we’re not aware of our reasons or motivations, and instead struggle with shame and self-doubt (just as we’re encouraged and socialized to do).
But… clarity is the enemy of oppression!
It replaces confusion with transparency. It throws light on the landscape 🔦
⬇️
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I think we autistics might know all this in our bones. In our hearts. Somewhere, anyway… but usually on an instinctive level.
Even if we’re not aware of our reasons or motivations, and instead struggle with shame and self-doubt (just as we’re encouraged and socialized to do).
But… clarity is the enemy of oppression!
It replaces confusion with transparency. It throws light on the landscape 🔦
⬇️
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Subject: Information processing in autism. Is our style necessarily a deficit?
Why do autistic people find new or high-stimulus environments stressful; even overwhelming?
Why can it seem, at times, we're slower than others? To take in scenes; to mentally process them; to make decisions based on them 🤷
This thread is an alternative take on autistic processing style & speed.
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(Comments & feedback welcomed, as always!)
#Autism #ActuallyAutistic #EpistemicInjustice #Neurodivergent #AuDHD
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...are tasked with the enormous and near-impossible job of ‘educating them’ (and blamed for failing when they don’t manage to).
But, sadly, the privileged ones are selectively deaf or you didn’t use the right tone or… or… well, I think you get the gist.
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#EpistemicInjustice #Racism #BlackLivesMatter #Patriarchy #GenderEquality #TransLivesMatter #LGBTQ+
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Yours truly on AI adoption, the media's existential crisis, epistemic injustice and erasure, AI-facilitated gender-based violence and devaluation of women's labour in the media.
https://zenodo.org/records/18506103
#AI #LLMs #media #EpistemicInjustice #EpistemicErasure #Gender #TFGBV #labour
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Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness
"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."
A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book -
Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness
"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."
A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book -
Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness
"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."
A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book -
Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness
"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."
A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book -
Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness
"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."
A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book -
>Teachers Are DONE & Speak Out — Something Is Very Wrong With America’s Y... <
#Education #Policy #EpistemicInjustice
#EconomicInjustice
#Inequality #Brutalization -
>Teachers Are DONE & Speak Out — Something Is Very Wrong With America’s Y... <
#Education #Policy #EpistemicInjustice
#EconomicInjustice
#Inequality #Brutalization -
>Teachers Are DONE & Speak Out — Something Is Very Wrong With America’s Y... <
#Education #Policy #EpistemicInjustice
#EconomicInjustice
#Inequality #Brutalization -
>Teachers Are DONE & Speak Out — Something Is Very Wrong With America’s Y... <
#Education #Policy #EpistemicInjustice
#EconomicInjustice
#Inequality #Brutalization -
>Teachers Are DONE & Speak Out — Something Is Very Wrong With America’s Y... <
#Education #Policy #EpistemicInjustice
#EconomicInjustice
#Inequality #Brutalization -
"Larissa Behrendt ... advocates for the inclusion of ancient Indigenous philosophies into our traditional Western liberal traditions, to create a truly inclusive and engaging democracy."
She..."reminds us that the legal system has been used to exclude and discriminate against First Nations people. " (transcript)
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/larissa-behrendt-boyer-lecture-justice-democracy/105965580Larissa Behrendt's Boyer Lecture argues justice and imagination are an investment in democracy (audio)
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/boyerlectures/larissa-behrendt-justice-ideas-inclusion/105872300Epistemological violence and epistemic injustice >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice
#IndigenousPeoples #Constitution #democracy #law #injustice #exclusion #IndigenousKnowledge #EpistemologicalViolence #EpistemicInjustice #SettlerSociety #Australia -
"Larissa Behrendt ... advocates for the inclusion of ancient Indigenous philosophies into our traditional Western liberal traditions, to create a truly inclusive and engaging democracy."
She..."reminds us that the legal system has been used to exclude and discriminate against First Nations people. " (transcript)
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/larissa-behrendt-boyer-lecture-justice-democracy/105965580Larissa Behrendt's Boyer Lecture argues justice and imagination are an investment in democracy (audio)
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/boyerlectures/larissa-behrendt-justice-ideas-inclusion/105872300Epistemological violence and epistemic injustice >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice
#IndigenousPeoples #Constitution #democracy #law #injustice #exclusion #IndigenousKnowledge #EpistemologicalViolence #EpistemicInjustice #SettlerSociety #Australia -
"Larissa Behrendt ... advocates for the inclusion of ancient Indigenous philosophies into our traditional Western liberal traditions, to create a truly inclusive and engaging democracy."
She..."reminds us that the legal system has been used to exclude and discriminate against First Nations people. " (transcript)
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/larissa-behrendt-boyer-lecture-justice-democracy/105965580Larissa Behrendt's Boyer Lecture argues justice and imagination are an investment in democracy (audio)
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https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/boyerlectures/larissa-behrendt-justice-ideas-inclusion/105872300Epistemological violence and epistemic injustice >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice
#IndigenousPeoples #Constitution #democracy #law #injustice #exclusion #IndigenousKnowledge #EpistemologicalViolence #EpistemicInjustice #SettlerSociety #Australia -
"Larissa Behrendt ... advocates for the inclusion of ancient Indigenous philosophies into our traditional Western liberal traditions, to create a truly inclusive and engaging democracy."
She..."reminds us that the legal system has been used to exclude and discriminate against First Nations people. " (transcript)
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/larissa-behrendt-boyer-lecture-justice-democracy/105965580Larissa Behrendt's Boyer Lecture argues justice and imagination are an investment in democracy (audio)
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/boyerlectures/larissa-behrendt-justice-ideas-inclusion/105872300Epistemological violence and epistemic injustice >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice
#IndigenousPeoples #Constitution #democracy #law #injustice #exclusion #IndigenousKnowledge #EpistemologicalViolence #EpistemicInjustice #SettlerSociety #Australia -
"Larissa Behrendt ... advocates for the inclusion of ancient Indigenous philosophies into our traditional Western liberal traditions, to create a truly inclusive and engaging democracy."
She..."reminds us that the legal system has been used to exclude and discriminate against First Nations people. " (transcript)
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-04/larissa-behrendt-boyer-lecture-justice-democracy/105965580Larissa Behrendt's Boyer Lecture argues justice and imagination are an investment in democracy (audio)
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/boyerlectures/larissa-behrendt-justice-ideas-inclusion/105872300Epistemological violence and epistemic injustice >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_injustice
#IndigenousPeoples #Constitution #democracy #law #injustice #exclusion #IndigenousKnowledge #EpistemologicalViolence #EpistemicInjustice #SettlerSociety #Australia -
Slide deck from a talk titled "The Geopolitics of Knowledge: Who Shapes What We Know Online?" that I delivered at the ISOC India (Mumbai Chapter) yesterday: https://zenodo.org/records/17455942
#knowledge #openknowledge #epistemology #epistemicviolence #epistemicjustice #epistemicinjustice #epistemicsuppression #ISOC @internetsociety
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Participatory methods in urban development, aimed at engaging inner-city youth, seem to align more closely with the cultural codes, practices, and career paths of the creative middle class. Whose voices are heard and whose knowledge remains marginalized?
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Die von @KaliuzhnaN und @zeynepaydin erwähnte Literaturstudie:
Hurdles to open access publishing faced by authors: a scoping literature review from 2004 to 2023. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250257
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Jetzt startet die Session "Session 4: Dimensionen von Ungleichheit" bei den #oat25. Alexandra Jobmann (@OPLTante) beginnt mit "Bibliodiversität von unten". Unser @idaho präsentiert seine Ergebnisse direkt danach.
https://www.conftool.org/oat2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=124#paperID169
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New on our blog!
Testimonial Oppression in Palestine
How is silence rendered a tool of violence? Kristie Dotson’s work on Epistemic Violence provides critical insights into the practices of testimonial oppression, particularly silencing and smothering, that produce epistemic harm against marginalized groups. Dotson highlights the systemic strategies used to suppress the voices of
#censorship #EpistemicInjustice
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/testimonial-oppression-in-palestine/
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New on our blog!
Epistemic Apartheid
Silence! Voices must not infiltrate the rhythmic sounds of war, death, and starvation / yet speak, as loudly as you can! Where your words sync with our massacres, when your unequivocal calls are responded to by the cleansing of your enemies.
Following the 7th of October 2023, and as Israel launched a genocide war on Ga
#AcademicFreedom #censorship #EpistemicInjustice #FreedomOfExpression
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I'm really looking forward to discuss the first draft of our recommendations to tackle burdens and barriers for authors in #OpenAccess publishing in our virtual workshop tomorrow:
https://projects.tib.eu/idaho/en/abschlussworkshop/
Free registration: https://tib-eu.webex.com/weblink/register/re6ed366fa3fe9b19d7328bccc391b23d
Insights in the topic of #EpistemicInjustice will be provided, then a summary of the most relevant results form our project with regard to the development of the recommendations. And then the "work" part of the workshop starts. :)
Please share!
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>Für #Rassismus braucht es keine Rassisten - DocCheck<
#PolitischeKommunikation
#Menschenbild
#RechtlicheAsymmetrie#Zeugnisungerechtigkeit /
#EpistemicInjustice #MirandaFrickerStruktureller Rassismus am Beispiel des Gesundheitswesens
https://www.doccheck.com/de/detail/articles/42928-fuer-rassismus-braucht-es-keine-rassisten
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>Für #Rassismus braucht es keine Rassisten - DocCheck<
#PolitischeKommunikation
#Menschenbild
#RechtlicheAsymmetrie#Zeugnisungerechtigkeit /
#EpistemicInjustice #MirandaFrickerStruktureller Rassismus am Beispiel des Gesundheitswesens
https://www.doccheck.com/de/detail/articles/42928-fuer-rassismus-braucht-es-keine-rassisten
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>re:publica 25: #KatharinaNocun - Unterschätze niemals die Macht der Verdrängung<
Übergang zwischen #Demokratie und ihrer Aushöhlung / programmatischer Entkernung
Der frühere #Rechtsruck ist längst ein permanentes #Driften
Zitat:
"... #Physik ist nicht links.
Physik ist Physik!"
#Klimakrise & #Artensterben#Biodiversity #Climatecrisis
#Ecocide #Topocide
#EconomicInjustice
#EpistemicInjustice
#Poverty
#TaxCuts vs #TaxTheRich
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Professor Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning
In this talk, Guy Claxton warns against the scientism and epistemic injustice of “The Science of Learning” and proposes instead something very much aligned with our notions of niche construction, toolbelt theory, collaboration, and iteration. These contribute to what Claxton calls “epistemic apprenticeship”.
https://youtu.be/qGFEswKBnMw?si=v62sC5IHR1GRRqC4
As Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang states, “We simply are not Frankenstein monsters.” We tend to focus on small mechanisms and parts and pieces of knowledge. Instead, focus on the whole person, not the Frankenstein monster with all the little pieces. Affective neuroscience teaches us new perspectives for understanding and appreciating the importance of the whole person in the educational context.
Similarly, David Perkins warns us against the atomized learning of “element-itis”.
David Perkins talks about the importance of not atomizing learning, not turning it into what he calls the twin diseases of about-ism, always just talking about things rather than learning to do them, and what he refers to as element-itis, that everything has to be built up like Lego from little bricks of knowledge before you can really get to work on them.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Instead of attempting to build Frankenstein children from reductionist parts, let children build their own niches and tool belts in whole, embodied ways compatible with cognitive and somatic liberty. Let them embark on an “epistemic apprenticeship”.
Table of Contents
- Selected Quotes from the Talk
- Reading List
- Further Reading
Selected Quotes from the Talk
[This example of expository teaching] is appropriate because you’re all adults who are free to come, or not, and you’ve come presumably because you think there’s something you think you might find interesting…in being here. That’s not the case of schools, of course…
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
It’s a big jump to go from the sometimes appropriateness of a group of people sitting quietly and politely being told things by someone else, to assuming that such forms of teaching are somehow the dominant or the mandatory forms of teaching in places of education.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Sciences of learning – plural
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Affective neuroscience
- Social neuroscience
- Al and robotics
- Philosophy
- Sociocultural psychology
- Cognitive anthropology
- Developmental psychology
- Embodied cognition
- Evolutionary psychology
- Information processing psychology
- Instructional psychology
There’s no such thing as THE science of learning.
We are a variety of scholars working on understanding learning.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Sciences of LearningS
- Skill development
- Perceptual learning
- Learning to learn
- Developing attitudes, values and interests
- Identity development
- Information retention and retrieval
- Deep understanding
- A part in a play
- Making and Performing: Dance, Design Technology, Sport
- School maths and science
The sciences of learnings are not exclusively or even principally about school.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Learning happens when someone wishes to learn, not when someone wishes to teach.
Ken Robinson
A properly designed school system needs to focus on cognitive abilities, not scholarly subjects…If we allow students to choose what areas of knowledge they would like to focus on while learning those skills, they would be attentive and interested.
Roger Schank
We humans have created… mechanisms of thought, embodied in our nervous systems, that enable our minds to go further, faster and in different directions than the minds of any other animals… They are passed on to subsequent generations through social learning.
In the future, the cultural inheritance of cognitive mechanisms could be enhanced by formal education. It may be possible to design training programs for use in schools…to improve cognitive skills.
Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets
It’s fairly obvious that there is a fundamental mismatch between secondary education and the way kids learn. In school we want kids to start with the small building blocks, to learn the little pieces and start to put those together. But that is not how the human mind grows. It grows by engaging with deep powerful [ideas and questions] and then working backward to inform the meaning you are making…Supporting young people to engage with the complexities of their moral and social lives…is what is deeply, deeply motivating- and it is what grows their brains.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Intelligence is the sum total of our habits of mind.
As long as school focuses mainly on individual forms of competence, on tool-free performance, and on decontextualized skills, educating people to be good learners in school settings alone may not be sufficient to help them become strong out-of-school learners.
Lauren Resnick
Hardly anything we do is done solo. No matter whether you are an athlete, a business person, a scientist, a trash collector, or a clerk, you are almost always coordinating with other people in a complex way. Human endeavor is deeply and intrinsically collective—except in schools.
David Perkins
Much of the recent work on embodied cognition shows beyond a shadow of doubt that forms of higher cognition retain a deep and often quite automatic grounding in the sensorimotor, in the physical, in the actual, in the emotional, in the embodied stuff of our being.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
What’s coming out of the laboratory, many of the laboratories, is that there is a bit of a shift from that rather narrow concern only with the rational and the linguistic and the argumentative, to a concern to a revised, renewed concern. It was there in the early days, was there if you read William James, with a concern that the real, the real world of living, of loving, of raising children, what we might now call embodied or warm cognition, a form of cognition that is embroiled with and suffused with emotion, with bodily process, with illness and so on.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Curiosity is the engine, is the driver of learning.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
In a state of mindfulness, your own assumptions become visible to you.
And once they become visible, then they can become questionable. And once they become questionable, they become mutable.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Education as an Epistemic Apprenticeship
- School as a place where you go to get good at thinking, learning and knowing
- As in any apprenticeship, you need
- Role models – teachers as ‘master-learners’
- Mates – some a bit further on than you
- Tasks that build competence and confidence
- Feedback on progress
- Appreciation of your (growing) contribution to life
- Escalating responsibility
- Doesn’t it do that already? NO!
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Explicit teaching, as it’s become known, is good for relatively short term retentions of relatively exam type knowledge. If that’s your overriding goal, then that’s a reasonable way of teaching. It’s not ineffective, but if you also care about the development of collaboration, of intuition, of imagination, of self-rescuing, of resilience, of curiosity, if those are also on your list of valued outcomes, then it’s far less clear that explicit teaching is the optimal pedagogy.
And so it’s up to us, isn’t it? It’s up to us in terms of what we what we value, to be first very clear about that. And only then start making decisions about the optimal forms of pedagogy.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
So what do the learning sciences tell us about teaching?
- The “learning sciences” is a hybrid, multi-perspectival and unfolding discipline. There is no single agreed “science of learning”
- Even if there were, it would not tell us how to teach, without a clear specification of what we are teaching for.
- “Good teaching” involves a constantly changing balance of framing, explaining and exploring. A classroom is a complex adaptive system.
- The development of valued traits such as perseverance, independence and collaboration require escalating levels of challenge, autonomy and exploratory talk. To judge this escalation right you have to know your students well, as a group and individually.
- Learning, thinking and ‘behaving intelligently’ cannot be properly understood apart from matters of personality, emotion, conviviality, the nature of the challenge and the social context.
- Science and maths are not valid prototypes for all school learning.
- Mind is organic and ecological, not computational. Learning naturally grows out from what is already known. Mind is a tree, not a computer.
- The fundamental driver of learning is the urge to derive accurate predictions from experience that will guide future action, not to stockpile explicit knowledge. That is ancillary.
- Cognition is enhanced by culturally derived and socially transmitted ‘upgrades’ – and sometimes reduced by downgrades.
- Predictive processing, social and affective neuroscience and embodied cognition support wider purposes of education, and point towards possible pedagogies that involve emotion, autonomy, inquiry and ‘interthinking’
- School as an epistemic apprenticeship – cultivating positive epistemic upgrades and avoiding downgrades – is a wantable and practicable goal, but it challenges many educational shibboleths and will of course have its opponents.
Dean’s Lecture Series – Prof Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning – YouTube
Reading List
Here are the books mentioned during the talk:
- Future of Teaching: And the Myths That Hold It Back by Guy Claxton
- Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools by Roger C. Schank
- Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking by Cecilia Heyes
- Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again by Andy Clark
- Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
- Education and Learning to Think by Lauren B. Resnick
- Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education by David Perkins
Further Reading
https://stimpunks.org/2023/11/22/on-the-problems-with-science-of-reading/
https://stimpunks.org/philosophy/were-raising-whole-children-not-frankenstein-children/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/niche-construction/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/toolbelt-theory/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/embodiment/
https://stimpunks.org/space/cavendish/
https://stimpunks.org/glossary/intelligence/
#affectiveNeuroscience #cognitiveLiberty #collaboration #curiousity #epistemicApprenticeship #epistemicInjustice #iteration #nicheConstruction #scienceOfLearning #scientism #somaticLiberty #toolbeltTheory
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Please consider donating, if you have some bucks to spend for an inclusive #academia
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>Über das Zuhören - Der programmierten Ungeduld trotzen<
#BernhardPoerkson #Universität #Tuebingen
Strukturelle Barriere:
Refeudalisierung v. #SocialMedia & der Zusammenhang zu #Trumpism & #Tribalism#Zuhören als e.kleine Schule der #Demokratie
Neue Formen der diskursiven #Begegnung ueber temporär Sozialraeume in d. #Kommunikation
Siehe auch die Bedeutung von
#PolitischeKommunikation als Imunisierung gegen #Hass & #Desinformation -
>„Das ungerechteste #Schulsystem, das ich kenne“: Warum Prof. #JohnHattie Bildungsreformen in Deutschland für dringend geboten hält - #News4teachers<
#Sozialjournalismus
#Menschenbild der #Deklassierung#SoziooekonomischeUngleichheit als Resultat sozialer #Segregation in #Bildung
Antidemokratische Tendenzen als Folge der Reproduktion hoher Bildungsungerechtigkeit
#EpistemicInjustice
#MirandaFricker#PolitischeKommunikation als Resultat von gegenseitiger Begegnung
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In Which We Answer Some Questions
Here are some questions posed to us for inclusion in an allied organization’s newsletter. We cover community art, direct giving, research, ableism, and more.
Table of Contents
- The artwork on your website is amazing, where does it come from?
- Featured Art
- It’s gonna be an art party.
- What is your latest research on?
- What does direct support look like for your organization? The website mentions a lot about mutual aid?
- How can individuals reading get involved in mutual aid in their communities?
- What are some wins you want to share with the community at large?
- What are some barriers you want the community at large to know about regarding ableism?
- How can we best support Stimpunks.org?
- How can Non-Disabled People show up better? And love better?
- I love how activist research is also about transformative action. Can you speak more to this?
- The ideas of community, interdependence, and the political really spoke to me, can you speak more on this?
- “We recognize that there is no justice that neglects disability.” (Philosophy – Stimpunks Foundation)
- I really like these ideas: Community is resistance. Asking for help. Showing up to give help. Collaboration.
The artwork on your website is amazing, where does it come from?
Our art comes from our community. We practice constructionism and actively engage in constructing things in the world. Practicing our art makes our souls grow.
Featured Art
“Floralis (Flourite Spheralite)” by Adriel Jeremiah Wool is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 About the art: Floralis (Flourite Spheralite)Description: A bursting kaleidoscopic geometrical form with 4 sides of symmetry pointing angularly to each of the four corners of a square shaped canvas against a dark grey textured wall. There is a small red shaped plus at the very center, surrounded by orangish-peach and periwinkle butterfly like shapes at 45 degree angles from each other aligned to the mid center going up and also to the sides. The butterfly shapes are encased in a deeper red flower like shape before a region of light blue geometric textures. Near the corners are feathered white, dark grey-purple, burgundy and orange feather like edges.
About the artist: Adriel Jeremiah WoolOur featured artist is Adriel Jeremiah Wool.
Adriel Jeremiah is an computer programmer with a deep background in origami and folding. This artwork is an extension of a world view involving folding; often involving higher dimensional spaces. Many of these designs contain the mathematical magic of the transcendental numbers of nature, and all of them are the extension of the provisions of space itself; to be both physically folded, and conceptually folded, circularily and across many levels of expression.Shop Art by Adriel
His spectacular new piece derives its color stream from a fluorite crystal that has a spheralite imperfection / inclusion (the red, purple, and orange).
AJ describes what these fractal pieces are in this accordion. Their construction will broaden your perspective on perspective.My artwork is digital photography in a world where objects exist in more than 3 dimensions, and where no known means of physical representation has yet been discovered to exist.
AJ is a regular contributor at Stimpunks. He kindly licenses his work as free cultural work. He helps us tell our stories with his art, music, photography, videos, audio engineering, poetry, prose, and lived experience.
AJ has a gallery in Ketchum, Idaho. Drop by if you’re around. He tries to make it a welcoming third place.
About the process: My artwork is digital photography in a world where objects exist in more than 3 dimensions, and where no known means of physical representation has yet been discovered to exist.Stimpunks is gently debugging society.
The charity protects, helps and comforts individuals, while pointing out library-level flaws in some of the concepts that end up harming those individuals.
This help is profoundly wonderful, morally and functionally coherent to great need, and as true as a pure circle in its cause-and-effect form.
The artist hopes to convey this: that the universe is given forth folded and unfolded. Although explicit understanding helps, it is too cumbersome, and should only provide refinement to something already greater that exists.
That greater thing is what was given to the artist first by the practice of origami. An enlivening of the intuitive mind, experience with a universe of many dimensions, and the promise of creation revealed when one folds a flat square into the likeness of a higher dimensional thing. That inspiration reaches a young mind in a powerful way.
The artist wants the viewer to see proof of what their intuitive mind already knows is true, the universe is a multidimensional phenomenon and the ability to understand its nature already exists within us each.The artist hopes the viewer will be inspired to seek the understanding of freedoms available to the individual inspired by the exposure to artistic expressions, and of a nature of dimensionality unimaginably greater than the object presented here.
A time has come to again look at changes in the way technology allows us to see the world and experience it. First was the human eye, with a lens made of flesh. Later humans developed a replacement for the eye but in the form and fashion of the lens of the eye; this time it was made of glass doped with metals to enhance its control of light. To see, the human eye has a retina filled with responsive cells which look for contrast and color.
Technology has allowed us to create a replacement for the retina called a CCD with metals which respond to color and report those values to a microchip which converts them to bits and bytes for storage. I will present to you the same extension of sight by explaining how the images you will see come into existence.
In my artwork the landscape is created via the execution of a seed of a formula, allowed to grow and flourish in a mathematical set of steps. In a similar way, crystals grow underground in a cave over many millennia but they follow a seed of a universal pattern related to their atomic structure and facilitated by the chemical nature of their environments. In our regular world, we have 3 directions we can move, forward-back, up-down and left-right, but these crystals can move in another set of directions allowed by the universe and mathematics. They are, and must be considered elements of nature, and it follows that the methods used to convey them must be considered legitimate tools of expression.
A crystal starts at a virtual geometric position, a virtual center, then it mathematically and procedurally grows outward and inward according to a seed formula. However it exists in a dark world devoid of light and color; it is only a cloud of form. As an artist, I create an eye with a lens which follows the same mathematical processes as the lens of a camera and the eye itself. I situate the virtual eye to be gazing upon the crystal as I create sources of light which will illuminate the crystal and reflect light back to the lens.
As an artist I imbue color to the crystal, I imbue reflectivity, I imbue refractability, and I imbue density or transparency exactly towards the same purpose as a painter would do, in combining pigmented oils on canvas with a brush in his or her hand.
My artwork is digital photography in a world where objects exist in more than 3 dimensions, and where no known means of physical representation has yet been discovered to exist.
Adriel Jeremiah Wool
It’s gonna be an art party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZRFkJsGNjI
We’re gonna make, make something great for
All of us to see and appreciate
It’s gonna be an art party
It’s gonna be an art party
Come on over it’s time to start
It’s a great big party where we make and share artArt Party (feat. Portugal. The Man & Paul Williams) – YouTube
What is your latest research on?
Monotropism, neuroqueer learning spaces, and Cavendish Space.
What does direct support look like for your organization? The website mentions a lot about mutual aid?
Direct support includes, first and foremost, giving people money with no strings attached. Folks know what they need and how best to spend the money. We also help people navigate our systems by filling forms and making calls for them. We provide warm lines and peer respite. We practice library economies, competency networks, sharing spoons, and support swapping.
“Mutuality is a feeling, an action, and a relationship based on shared benefit between individuals and groups in a society. It materialises in many, many ways and is arguably a universal constant of our human nature. We rely on mutuality to survive and progress through our day to day life.” (Andrewism)
“When systems of power fail, it is mutuality—neighbours helping neighbours—that holds communities together.” (Andrewism)
How can individuals reading get involved in mutual aid in their communities?
Start with pod mapping.
- Find a few people.
- Identify your zone.
- Invite neighbors.
- Get a name.
- Have conversations.
- Support each other.
Source: Mutual Aid 101 – Google Slides
What are some wins you want to share with the community at large?
Our Map of Monotropic Experiences has been widely shared and incorporated into care settings and training.
What are some barriers you want the community at large to know about regarding ableism?
We live in an age of mass behaviorism. Behaviorism such as ABA and PBS are rife in education and healthcare settings. “Behaviorism is a dehumanizing mechanism of learning that reduces human beings to simple inputs and outputs. There is an ever-growing body of research suggesting that behaviorism is not only harmful to how we learn, but is also oppressive, ableist, and racist.” (Human Restoration Project)
Behaviorist education is ableist education. Behaviorist healthcare is ableist healthcare.
How can we best support Stimpunks.org?
- Read our website.
- Share our website.
- Amplify us on social media.
- Give whatever you can, be it time or money or attention.
- stimpunks.org
- RSS Feed
- WordPress
- Bluesky
- Gravatar
- Threads
- Mastodon
- Tumblr
- GitHub
- Twitter/X
- Patreon
- YouTube
- TikTok
- Counter Social
- Raindrop.io
How can Non-Disabled People show up better? And love better?
We exist as friction. Load-share the burden of existing as friction.
- Promote and practice access intimacy instead of forced intimacy.
- Question the narratives of wellness, and engage in critical wellness instead.
- Reframe yourself and others. Help people reframe from the pathology paradigm and medical model to the neurodiversity paradigm and biopsychosocial model. This is hard and important work necessary to all other work. Change the narrative. Start reframing.
- Advocate for accessibility at school, work, and in your community.
- Be a threat to inequity in your spheres of influence.
- Combat the myths.
- Use and promote Identity First Language.
- Elevate care as infrastructure. Stimpunks exists because our systems effectively don’t.
- Celebrate our interdependence!
I love how activist research is also about transformative action. Can you speak more to this?
“three characteristics that delineate activist research from other types of research:”
(1) combination of knowledge production and transformative action;
(2) systematic multi-level collaboration; and
(3) challenges to power.
(Denisha Jones)
A hallmark of good research is that it embraces epistemic justice and rejects scientism.
Another hallmark of good research is naming the systems of power. If you’re not naming the systems of power in your research, you’re missing a vital component.
The ideas of community, interdependence, and the political really spoke to me, can you speak more on this?
In the past, the disability rights movement focused on independence, including it as one of the pillars of the ADA. Disability Justice moves away from independence framing, because independence is a myth.
“I am fighting for an interdependence that embraces need and tells the truth: no one does it on their own and the myth of independence is just that, a myth.” (Mia Mingus)
“Access intimacy is interdependence in action.” (Mia Mingus)
“It is time to celebrate our interdependence!” (Jorn Bettin)
“We recognize that there is no justice that neglects disability.” (Philosophy – Stimpunks Foundation)
Working at my org I really believe this and feel that everyone who works here also believes this. We cannot neglect disability in our policy and conversations and our care. If you have anything to add to this.
There is no path to justice that does not involve direct confrontation with ableism and inaccessibility. To neglect disability is to neglect two of the major forces of injustice.
Ableism is at the root of all -isms.
“Ableism is what makes all other “isms” effective.
White supremacy is the goal, ableism is the toolkit.” (Imani Barbarin)
“…so much of what disability actually is, is just humanity; and so much of what ableism is, is a humanity heist.” “Ableism enables all forms of inequity and hampers all liberation efforts.” (Talila A. Lewis)
Disabled and neurodivergent people are always edge cases, and edge cases are stress cases.
We choose the margin, because design is tested at the edges.
“Living as we did on the edge we developed a particular way of seeing reality. We looked both from the outside in and from the inside out. We focused our attention on the centre as well as on the margin. We understood both.” (bell hooks)
“No one knows best the motion of the ocean than the fish that must fight the current to swim upstream.” “By focusing on the parts of the system that are most complex and where the people living it are the most vulnerable we understand the system best.” (Tressie McMillan Cottom)
I really like these ideas: Community is resistance. Asking for help. Showing up to give help. Collaboration.
I think if we’re going to have a future we need to embrace and act in these ideas. How would someone start if they are new to these ideas and new to community engagement?
Find people with which you share a concern or passion. You can do this via the pod mapping described above.
“Communities of Practice are groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” (Wenger-Trayner, E. & Wenger-Trayner, B. 2015)
“Through free association, people will find those of mutual interests in every sphere of life to form groups on the basis of their affinity.” (Andrewism)
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- The artwork on your website is amazing, where does it come from?
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Australia's semantic struggles over a "one and only" reality or a pluriverse?
From the 'heart of darkness' to the “sanitised” articles of sub/urban place names."Some (Wikipedia) editors told us they felt it was their responsibility to include First Nations’ perspectives, even though they met with heavy resistance. One, Lucas, had repeatedly tried to include First Nations place names, often unsuccessfully. He no longer edits Wikipedia. “I just ran out of energy for it”...One or two editors “were going around removing Aboriginal place names from all the articles about Australia and Australian places”.
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https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-sanitised-history-others-privileged-fiction-over-reality-241364
#wikipedia #SettlerSociety #Australia #SocialImaginary #ImaginedCommunity #fiction #violence #FirstNations #TruthTelling #naming #IndigenousKnowledge #pluriverse #EditWars #WorldMaking #EpistemicInjustice #language #framing #worldviews #AI -
Australia's semantic struggles over a "one and only" reality or a pluriverse?
From the 'heart of darkness' to the “sanitised” articles of sub/urban place names."Some (Wikipedia) editors told us they felt it was their responsibility to include First Nations’ perspectives, even though they met with heavy resistance. One, Lucas, had repeatedly tried to include First Nations place names, often unsuccessfully. He no longer edits Wikipedia. “I just ran out of energy for it”...One or two editors “were going around removing Aboriginal place names from all the articles about Australia and Australian places”.
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https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-sanitised-history-others-privileged-fiction-over-reality-241364
#wikipedia #SettlerSociety #Australia #SocialImaginary #ImaginedCommunity #fiction #violence #FirstNations #TruthTelling #naming #IndigenousKnowledge #pluriverse #EditWars #WorldMaking #EpistemicInjustice #language #framing #worldviews #AI -
Australia's semantic struggles over a "one and only" reality or a pluriverse?
From the 'heart of darkness' to the “sanitised” articles of sub/urban place names."Some (Wikipedia) editors told us they felt it was their responsibility to include First Nations’ perspectives, even though they met with heavy resistance. One, Lucas, had repeatedly tried to include First Nations place names, often unsuccessfully. He no longer edits Wikipedia. “I just ran out of energy for it”...One or two editors “were going around removing Aboriginal place names from all the articles about Australia and Australian places”.
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https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-sanitised-history-others-privileged-fiction-over-reality-241364
#wikipedia #SettlerSociety #Australia #SocialImaginary #ImaginedCommunity #fiction #violence #FirstNations #TruthTelling #naming #IndigenousKnowledge #pluriverse #EditWars #WorldMaking #EpistemicInjustice #language #framing #worldviews #AI -
Australia's semantic struggles over a "one and only" reality or a pluriverse?
From the 'heart of darkness' to the “sanitised” articles of sub/urban place names."Some (Wikipedia) editors told us they felt it was their responsibility to include First Nations’ perspectives, even though they met with heavy resistance. One, Lucas, had repeatedly tried to include First Nations place names, often unsuccessfully. He no longer edits Wikipedia. “I just ran out of energy for it”...One or two editors “were going around removing Aboriginal place names from all the articles about Australia and Australian places”.
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https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-sanitised-history-others-privileged-fiction-over-reality-241364
#wikipedia #SettlerSociety #Australia #SocialImaginary #ImaginedCommunity #fiction #violence #FirstNations #TruthTelling #naming #IndigenousKnowledge #pluriverse #EditWars #WorldMaking #EpistemicInjustice #language #framing #worldviews #AI -
Australia's semantic struggles over a "one and only" reality or a pluriverse?
From the 'heart of darkness' to the “sanitised” articles of sub/urban place names."Some (Wikipedia) editors told us they felt it was their responsibility to include First Nations’ perspectives, even though they met with heavy resistance. One, Lucas, had repeatedly tried to include First Nations place names, often unsuccessfully. He no longer edits Wikipedia. “I just ran out of energy for it”...One or two editors “were going around removing Aboriginal place names from all the articles about Australia and Australian places”.
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https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-sanitised-history-others-privileged-fiction-over-reality-241364
#wikipedia #SettlerSociety #Australia #SocialImaginary #ImaginedCommunity #fiction #violence #FirstNations #TruthTelling #naming #IndigenousKnowledge #pluriverse #EditWars #WorldMaking #EpistemicInjustice #language #framing #worldviews #AI -
🎉 As part of #OpenAccessWeek2024, we are excited to share our latest blog post: "IDAHO and KOMET – Increasing Visibility in the Long Tail of Open Access"☄️
✨ Learn more about how these projects contribute to building an equitable and more diverse publishing ecosystem.
#OA #OpenScience #epistemicinjustice #academicPublishing
https://blog.tib.eu/2024/10/22/idaho-and-komet-making-the-long-tail-of-open-access-more-visible/
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In wissenschaftlichen Postern geht es darum, die Ergebnisse wissenschaftlicher Arbeit zu präsentieren. In einigen Disziplinen sind es eigentlich kompakte kleine Artikel mit ansprechendem Layout. Dies ist im #Bibliothekswesen nicht sehr verbreitet. Für unser (@idaho) Poster zu "Hürden des Open-Access-Publizierens" haben wir diesen Ansatz allerdings verfolgt und mit visuellen Elementen vermischt.