What is the Disjuncture-response Dialectic?
The Disjuncture-response dialectic (Sul, 2021) is a theoretical framework that situates the work of culturally specific assessment developers within a swirling environment of sociohistorical factors, cultural aspirations, and uplifting directions. The instruments developed within this environment contain an acknowledgement of the historical legacy of slavery, institutional racism, settler colonialism (Wolfe, 1999, 2006), intellectual elimination (Sul, 2021), and their impact on measurement disjuncture (Sul, 2019). Simultaneously, the work of culturally specific assessment developers serves as a political act of intellectual amplification and liberation that challenges intellectual elimination (Sul, 2021).
References
Sul, D. A. (2019, March). Reclaiming educational autonomy and minimizing measurement disjuncture through a culturally specific assessment development process. [Paper presentation]. Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) Conference 2019, Chicago, IL. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332275884_Reclaiming_educational_autonomy_and_minimizing_measurement_disjuncture_through_a_culturally_specific_assessment_development_process
Sul, D. A. (2021). Indigenous assessment developers on elements of the disjuncture-response dialectic: A critical comparative case study [Doctoral dissertation, University of San Francisco]. https://repository.usfca.edu/diss/571
Wolfe, P. (1999). Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology: The politics and poetics of an ethnographic event. Cassell.
Wolfe, P. (2006). Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native. Journal of Genocide Research, 8(4), 387–409. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520601056240