Equity and Equality in Education: Asset-Based Approach vs Deficit Ideology, Schemes and Mind Maps of Public Health

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EQUITY COMPONENTS

PLEASE REFER TO THE HANDOUT DISCUSSION QUESTION Is this a true reflection of Jamaica’s Educational System?

RESEARCH FINDINGS

• lam (1995) believes that ensuring equality in assessment allows for the comparison of results and the

simplification of assessments, but its significance is lost, ceasing to be impartial; while ensuring fairness

reduces bias and leads to a meaningful assessment but introduces difficulties in the administration and

comparison of the students' results.

• The researchers found that one of the elements that has characterized education the early years of this

century is the overdevelopment of assessment in all areas. in recent times we have requested the

promotion of a culture of evaluation to an obsession to assess everything and at all times. unfortunately

the ones suffering such pressure the most, as always, are the students, given they are the weakest link in

the educational system.

DEFICIT-BASED IDEOLOGY

• Deficit ideology is a worldview that explains and justifies outcome inequalities— standardized test scores or levels of educational attainment, for example—by pointing to supposed deficiencies within disenfranchised individuals and communities
• Traditionally, deficit thinking blames the student for school failure. there is little schooling can do to ‘fix’ these students and so interventions are created to help them fit into the dominant school culture (Simone, 2012).

WHAT EXACTLY DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE AN “ASSET-BASED APPROACH” TO EDUCATION?

• In the simplest terms, an asset-based approach in education

focuses on strengths. it views diversity in thought, culture, and

traits as positive assets. teachers and students alike are valued for

what they bring to the classroom rather than being characterized

by what they may need to work on or lack.

• “ASSET-BASED TEACHING SEEKS TO UNLOCK STUDENTS’ POTENTIAL BY FOCUSING ON

THEIR TALENTS.

RESEARCH FINDINGS

• The ‘Assets-Based Approach’ to health and well-being has

been presented as a potentially empowering means to address the social

determinants of health

• The study finds that practitioners interact with the

assets-based policy discourse in interesting ways they mitigate the worst

effects of poverty and social vulnerability in ways that enhance collectivism and

solidarity, concepts that neoliberalism arguably seeks to disrupt.

• WHAT TYPE OF EDUCATOR WILL

YOU BE?

• THE NEXT GENERATION DEPENDS

ON YOU.

CONCLUSION