Beyond the token gesture
Tokenism, power and lived experience in practice.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Lived Experience
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
A seat is not a say. Drawing on the critique that service users, survivors and disabled people have made of involvement, this module names everyday forms of tokenism and challenges the usual suspects complaint. It locates tokenism on Arnstein's ladder, applies Peter Beresford's consumerist and democratic models, and examines how independent voices become absorbed. It introduces the 4Pi National Involvement Standards and ends with questions a board should ask itself. Lived experience is judged by what changes, not by how many people were heard. This capstone applies five questions on context, power, conditions, change and transfer to three cases: the Poverty Truth Commission, Social Security Scotland's Experience Panels and Recovery Colleges. Each is read through lenses from the programme, including Fricker's epistemic injustice, Beresford's models and the 4Pi standards, before a closing synthesis in the lived experience pyramid.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Identify common patterns of tokenism and locate them on Arnstein's ladder of citizen participation.
- Distinguish Beresford's consumerist and democratic models of involvement and assess whether your involvement serves the organisation or changes it.
- Use the 4Pi standards and a set of board questions to assess whether involvement is changing decisions.
- Apply the five questions of context, power, conditions, change and transfer to any case of lived experience involvement.
- Compare how the Poverty Truth Commission, the Experience Panels and Recovery Colleges shifted power, and identify the limits of each.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 08Tokenism, Power and the Movement's Own CritiqueA seat is not a say. Drawing on the critique that service users, survivors and disabled people have made of involvement, this module names everyday forms of tokenism and challenges the usual suspects complaint. It locates tokenism on Arnstein's ladder, applies Peter Beresford's consumerist and democratic models, and examines how independent voices become absorbed. It introduces the 4Pi National Involvement Standards and ends with questions a board should ask itself.37 min
- 09Capstone: Applied Case StudiesLived experience is judged by what changes, not by how many people were heard. This capstone applies five questions on context, power, conditions, change and transfer to three cases: the Poverty Truth Commission, Social Security Scotland's Experience Panels and Recovery Colleges. Each is read through lenses from the programme, including Fricker's epistemic injustice, Beresford's models and the 4Pi standards, before a closing synthesis in the lived experience pyramid.39 min
Keep going.
Part of the Lived Experience topic, also sold whole as Experts by experience.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Doing it right, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, Experts by experience, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
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