Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
individualization , etc.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
individualization .
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- noun discriminating the individual from the generic group or species
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Examples
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In this connection, however, we must avoid the two extremes, uniformity of punishment and the so-called individualisation of punishment, the latter especially in fashion amongst American prison experts.
Criminal Sociology 1899
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However, in order to have individual rights, you must have increase individualisation, thus, the contradiction occurs.
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Its reporters provide unbiased insight into socio-cultural questions, such as the ongoing individualisation of society and the Dutch approach to a growing Muslim population.
Poll: Minority of Dutch Population Support Wilders Trial 2009
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However, in order to have individual rights, you must have increase individualisation, thus, the contradiction occurs.
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Ironically, this impetus towards individualisation has involved creating discrete and mutually-exclusive learner ‘types’, a development that is, in turn, reflected in the discourse that perpetuates ethnic and cultural stereotyping – of the kind: “Asians are collectivist (as opposed to individualist)” – that is to say, an obsessive concern for categorisation as a basis for pedagogy.
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Where this conflicts with individual rights is that one of the main causes they outline for this is increased individualisation, as we have seen a fragmentation around the family ideal.
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That is to say, the push towards individualisation and learner-centredness has foregrounded individual differences over shared curricular goals.
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Where this conflicts with individual rights is that one of the main causes they outline for this is increased individualisation, as we have seen a fragmentation around the family ideal.
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It seems to me that the individualisation of learning (whether on the basis of ethnicity or of learning style) is a one-way, and possibly dead-end, street.
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It suborns the individual member of the minority to the minority-as-a-whole which denies diversity within the group and furthers the de-individualisation of those members, their typification as not me or you, he or she, but us or them, as not this person or that but as a homogenous group -- Gays, Blacks, Women, etc..
More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006
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