Beyond deficit thinking: towards more inclusive education and diversity policy at Erasmus School of Law

CLI Fellowship of Nina Holvast & Willem-Jan Kortleven

The Community for Learning & Innovation (CLI) gives lecturers from Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) the opportunity to apply for a fellowship. With this fellowship, they research educational innovation, or carry out an educational project.
On this page you can read more about the CLI Fellowship of Nina Holvast & Willem-Jan Kortleven's (ESL) about more inclusive education and diversity policy at Erasmus School of Law.

EUR, and ESL in particular, has a diverse student population (including in terms of gender, ethnicity, socio-economic and cultural background). Although promoting diversity is high on the agenda, education and daily interaction with students still seems to be marked to some extent by 'deficit thinking' (a deviant profile is seen as a 'defect', which must be addressed in some way). repaired). With this project we want to detect the implicit hurdles that such an approach entails and then come up with educational innovations to minimize them. The aim is to address the shortcomings in daily (legal) educational practice. In this way we want to help promote a more inclusive approach, in which all students are given equal opportunities and unnecessary drop-out or lagging study results are reduced.

Researcher
Nina Holvast is Assistant Professor Empirical Legal Studies at Erasmus School of Law.
Researcher
Willem-Jan Kortleven is Assistant Professor Sociology, Theory, and Methodology at Erasmus School of Law.
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