Varieties of Testimonial Injustice (Wanderer and Hookway)

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 theoretical), q1 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A taxonomy the article compiles in its Table 1. Wanderer (2017) "suggests three perspectives on testimonial injustice: transactional testimonial injustice, structural testimonial injustice, and testimonial betrayal", covering exchanges between two people, unequal distribution of epistemic goods such as education, and trust relations. Hookway (2010) adds participatory prejudice (lacking a sense of relevance) and informational prejudice (lacking capacity to provide relevant information).

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Distinguishing whether an injustice arises in an exchange, in the distribution of epistemic goods, in trust relations, or in obstacles to participation in collective epistemic activities

Constraints

Target Learners

• Students from marginalized racial, gender and social-class groups in school settings, such as the black adolescents in the ethnography the article analyzes

Target Learning Objectives

• Recognizing forms of credibility discounting that obstruct students' participation in collective epistemic activities

Claims

• Black Girls Face Testimonial And Structural Hermeneutical Injustice In School [+W]
• In a pedagogical space, epistemic injustice might be activated when teachers' identity prejudice leads them to give a student less credit, and the curriculum can block or enable students' understanding and expression of their social experiences [+W]

Related Theories

• Epistemic Injustice
• Hermeneutical Injustice Incidental And Systematic

Examples

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Key Sources

• Göktürk, D. (2021). Epistemic Injustice and Cultural Processes in Education. Kastamonu Education Journal, 29(1), 218-227. https://doi.org/10.24106/kefdergi.732138

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