minority Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/minority/ Pushing The Edge for Critical Thinking in Education Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:58:51 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pushingtheedge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-PTE-512x512-32x32.png minority Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/minority/ 32 32 Students as Change-Makers with Christina Torres https://pushingtheedge.org/change-makers/ https://pushingtheedge.org/change-makers/#respond Sat, 19 Dec 2015 04:10:16 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=8508 In this episode, empowering our students to be change-makers. We do so by disrupting the business as usual' stories of oppression.

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]]> https://pushingtheedge.org/change-makers/feed/ 0 Challenging the Deficit Mindsets in Education https://pushingtheedge.org/challenge-deficit-mindset/ https://pushingtheedge.org/challenge-deficit-mindset/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2015 23:28:59 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=6361 Deficit Mindsets predominate in schools especially in relation to minority communities. How might we think outside such limiting parameters?  They’re at the Top of all the Wrong Lists and Bottom of all the Right Lists. That’s the view of Maori people that Surin McGrory (a Pushing The Edge Podcast Guest) took away from her pre-service teacher education in New Zealand. As she began teaching Maori students though – in a Maori Immersion School – a different picture emerged. The reality of her students’ lives and capabilities were far more complex and positive than the deficit perspectives she encountered in her teacher education

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