disempowering
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DISEMPOWERING + NOUN
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Causing a loss of power or agency; debilitating.
On the contrary, Bernstein argues, by presenting a benevolent face to students while failing to change the underlying rules of pedagogic discourse, progressive pedagogies may be potentially more disempowering for students because they mask the workings of oppression and hence make it harder for students to name and usurp it.
Usually the story that they want is about this privileged group of people who have moved into a poor neighborhood and are doing all this great work for the neighborhood. And that can be very disempowering to our neighbors who have lived and survived and who are caring for each other.
Demoralizing.
Losing the ability to work was very disempowering.
Pain becomes a constant companion when we live in this low level of vibration as we create more and more disempowering stories.
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3On the contrary, Bernstein argues, by presenting a benevolent face to students while failing to change the underlying rules of pedagogic discourse, progressive pedagogies may be potentially more disem
WiktionaryUsually the story that they want is about this privileged group of people who have moved into a poor neighborhood and are doing all this great work for the neighborhood. And that can be very disempowe
WiktionaryIn other words, the more disempowering an interpersonal context is (i.e., the fewer degrees of freedom available there), the more likely invitations for vulnerability will function aversively, evoking
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