Space for reflective practice

Welcome to this space to continue your learning.  Within this space, we encourage you to engage in a reflective practice.  Through this space, we aim to support you in continuing to delve into the important issues, perspectives, and approaches presented by our speakers, the Re-Creation Collective.  

As you continue to engage in this process, we recommend you create a journal - either on paper or on your computer.  In this journal, you might consider reflecting on:  How would you contribute to developing an EDI statement for an organization that you belong to? How does your expertise and lived experience inform your experience within this organization? 

What will you find here? 

• A sketch note based on the talk

• A summary and recording of the talk

• Suggested readings to further your reflections

We would be so pleased if you would share your thoughts in an anonymised space to share back with learners along this journey together. 

Summary

“EDI,” as a set of policies and broader discourses has increasingly become the go-to technology for addressing widespread exclusion, inequitable treatment, and harm.  However, many people from equity-denied groups–including this presentation’s authors–continue to experience erasure, denial, and ignorance— not despite such policies, but sometimes because of them. In this talk, we present our Collective’s case study of all (143) national-level EDI sport policies in Canada. From this analysis, we created a model that explains common ways that EDI policies can serve to reproduce the very exclusions they seek to address. Our first theme, Reproducing the Status Quo, features subthemes Alleging Inclusivity, and Refusing Accountability. Our second theme Reproducing the Excludable Other features subthemes Erasing, Problematising, and Hedging. This framework’s application far exceeds sport policy, and  has proven useful in analyzing and intervening into EDI policy and practice in sport, recreation, education, and health sectors.

Recording of Speaker Session

Link to the Zoom Recording 

Recording of Speaker Session

Suggested Readings & Resources

The University of Alberta's Library has a wonderful set of resources for exploring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. 

https://guides.library.ualberta.ca/edi/home.

As you continue your learning, we would recommend you explore the Re-Creation Collective’s Website: https://www.recreation-collective.com/

You can also find the 3 page summary for practionners:

 https://www.recreation-collective.com/uploads/1/4/0/6/140682655/edi_practitioner_tip_sheet.pdf

Forthcoming article outlining the Collective’s intersectional methodology: 

WeBecomeGardensFinal.pdf 

Reflection Questions

Within research or practice areas most relevant to you, consider how often well-meaning equity, diversity, or Inclusion attempts might reproduce and naturalize the status quo, for example by saying the right words but not committing to significant action?  

How might the ways we talk about EDI serve to erase or problematize certain equity denied groups, or hedge on inclusive commitments to others?