Normality – Power – Education
“Normality – Power – Education” is the title of this semester’s series of lectures within the “’All Equally Different!?’Diversity in theory and practice” cycle.
In education institutions and processes, normality is (re-)produced, but also pre-supposed. At the same time, diversity is perceived as a deviation from an unspoken standard and thereby perceived as problematic. Those who do not seem to meet certain normality requirements and standards are threatened by disability and disadvantage. Hence, the education system does not compensate social differences, but strengthens the alleged normality.
Normality, however, is not an unalterable fact, but an organisational task that changes over time. So how do universities deal with it not only on a daily basis, but also in strategic considerations? To what extent are concepts of normality encoded in interactions, structures and processes at universities, as well as in their production of knowledge?
The individual talks discuss how normality at the university evolves, how it changes and for whom it may have what kind of including or excluding consequences.
The hosts wish to emphasise the English talk of this year’s programme:
Dr. Anna Hickey Moody (University of Sydney): Imagining University Education, 11th January 2017, 18:15-19:45 p.m., VG 4.101
