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Perpetuating Advantage Mechanisms of Structural Injustice


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 019288820X | 273 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB
Injustices are, in the first instance, brute acts of identifiable individuals. But they are typically perpetuated, more subtly, through seemingly innocent workings of innocuous social structures. Critics of structural injustice are quick to call out that ruse. They say much about all the sites where such structural injustices reside – but without saying much, as yet, about how exactly structural injustice actually works. By what specific mechanisms are unfair

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The Dyslexic Advantage (Revised and Updated) Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BX7FVN1L | 2023 | 10 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Brock L. Eide, Fernette F. Eide
Narrator: Tristan Morris

Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide use their impressive backgrounds in neurology and education to debunk the standard deficit-based approach to dyslexia. People typically define "dyslexia" as a reading and spelling disorder. But through published research studies, clinical observations, and interviews with dyslexic individuals, the Eides prove that these challenges are not dyslexia’s main features but are instead trade-offs resulting from a different pattern of brain organization and information processing that has powerful advantages. For example, dyslexic adults routinely outperform their non-dyslexic peers in studies on three-dimensional spatial reasoning and divergent creativity.

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