Progressive Stacking
Description
Michael Rectenwald:
"In addition to its theoretical importance, Standpoint Epistemology has produced pedagogical offspring as well. A hallmark of social justice pedagogy is “progressive stacking,” a method for ordering student class participation based the inverted social justice hierarchy. This form of academic priori-tarianism, or putting the worst-off first, became a topic of national controversy when a graduate student made a public declaration of the technique. It never seems to occur to the advocates of progressive stacking that such preferential treatment or prioritizing of supposed social subordinates might reify the very hierarchy that it is supposed to reverse, patronizing some while handicapping others based on a presupposed social superiority, however it may have been produced or reproduced." (https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/essays/2017/1/23/sample-blog-post-v1-aria)
More information
- Miles Cheong, “‘Progressive Stacking Is Infiltrating College Classrooms,”The Daily Caller, November 2, 2017,http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/06/progressive-stacking-is-infiltrating-college-classrooms/.