Diversity+&+The+Hierarchy+of+Oppression

The following is a survey I am doing for TE 802 for my inquiry project. Your responses will remain completely anonymous. I am just picking your brain to see what you think about diversity in the classroom! If you could get this back to me by Tuesday, December 9th, that would be greatly appreciated!!! 1. What does diversity mean to you? 2. Do you feel your school is diverse? Why or why not?

3. In school, do you feel discriminated against by other faculty/staff? Explain.

4. In school, do you feel discriminated against by students? Explain. 5. When you hear students use derogatory terms in your classroom how do you respond? And with your response, do you feel it has made change in your students thought process on the term(s) that they used? Why or why not? a. Are you aware of the phrase “hierarchy of oppression?”

b. Hierarchy of oppression, according to Nationmaster.com is: “A hierarchy of oppression is a ranking or hierarchy of oppressions according to arbitrariness and cruelty or according to the negative effects on oppressed communities and individuals.”(In my own terms, it is the idea that some people believe their oppression is “worse” than another person’s oppression. The fact of the matter is that there isn’t a hierarchy -- how do you put value to oppression in order to rank it against another oppression?) 6. Do you feel your students believe this concept of hierarchy of oppression? Why or why not? 7. How do you feel we, as teachers, could make change or progress in our students’ thought process about diversity? 8. Do you think your students believe in this concept of hierarchy of oppression? Do you think that this helps feed into the way they talk or think about diversity and their relationships with other students?

--Again thank you so much for your help in advance! Sincerely, Mara S. Deutch