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Many existing explainable artificial intelligence systems produce explanations that are tailored to individualist, typically western, populations.
Though some LGBTQ+ health care providers may try to separate their personal and professional identities, the prejudice they experience highlights their queerness in the clinic.
Mathematics is not a “neutral” subject — cultural biases exist. A shift to more equitable teaching looks like teachers drawing on students’ knowledge, and students generating lots of solutions.
Cultural omnivores are economically and culturally privileged people who can enjoy both “highbrow” and “lowbrow” cultural products, like good and bad coffee, simultaneously.
Being gay in Africa can pose culturally specific challenges which the dominant, heterosexual culture may find difficult to accept.
If you’re American – regardless of the color of your skin – racism structures how you think. Changing the system should change these implicit biases.
Nigerian men who wear their hair in knots are not a new phenomenon, but the hairstyle’s spiritual heritage sparks fear in the hearts of many.
Conflict in the classroom may not look or sound like an argument. It might look like disengagement if students don’t feel seen and heard.
Working class parents may be too busy to attend high school events, but they take an active role in their children’s success.
If we fail to recognise that standardised tests are metro-centric, we will continue to produce disadvantage for rural students.
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