Again, so interesting to critically examine the use of language here and what values we are promoting with the use of these buzz word terms.

Yes, this is crucial. We must be self-reflective and think critically about the ideologies we are asked to engage in as educators. So many of the boxed curriculum, or boxed diversity/ engagement models use language that would appear to indicate an understanding of these tropes, thereby rejecting a deficit view/ model are actually perpetuating deficit thinking. I appreciate the authors' term "neodeficit ideology."

I am reminded here, and throughout this whole section on the authors' description of Freire's philosophy, of the Adichie video, and how important re-framing and dialogue is in order to understand people. When we have just one idea of who people in poverty are, then we are incapable of actually transforming the situation. So too, we must develop a critical understanding of the situation itself - such as described here, the situation of oppression, and while this may not yet liberate us, it is a step toward the ability to do so.

This is an interesting point, because ultimately the benefit of such research, to my mind, would actually be the restructuring of "prevailing ecological systems," and here he is suggesting that in order to perform the research, we must redefine and depart from institutional ideologies. I suppose upon first read, it feels like a bit of a catch 22, but really it makes perfect sense. In order to prove the need for institutional change, research must show the benefits of such change. Recently I entered my children into a study wherein in exchange for participating, children receive a free genetic test for Celiac disease and Type 1 Diabetes. These tests are not currently covered by most insurance, and are not part of routine pediatric screening, yet the diseases are reaching epidemic levels in the youth of our country. The researchers are hoping that by screening 70,000 children in Colorado they will be able to prove the need to make these screenings routine and a covered expense, so that children receive early treatment and intervention.