What is Marginalization

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The relegation or neglect of a specific group of people to the fringes of society. Learn more in: Digital Divide

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The reality of children in the urban informal settlement being accorded less attention and concern in terms of provision of (quality) education as compared to their counterparts elsewhere within the country as manifested in the lack of public schools, an expensive education yet of inferior quality offered in a form that does not enable them transit to the formal system making them appear insignificant and excluded from the mainstream educational concern. Learn more in: Basic Education Provision in Kenya's Urban Informal Settlements

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Marginalization involves social exclusion or the treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral. Social marginalization therefore, entails the social disadvantage and relegation of some people or groups to the fringe of society. It is a term used widely in Europe and was first used in France. It is used across disciplines including education, sociology, psychology, politics and economics. Learn more in: The Paradox of Increasing Women's Space and Influence in Public Life in Africa: The First Lady Experience

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Minority groups and cultures outside mainstream society or institutions who are also less privileged and under resourced. Learn more in: The Role of University Leadership in Advocating Social Justice in South African Higher Education

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is used to compensate for the missing values where the unreliable features of a pattern are integrated out of the distribution of a class, constrained by upper and lower bounds on the true values of these components implicit in their observed values. The resulting distributions with the smaller number of components are then used to compute the likelihood for that pattern. Learn more in: Classification with Incomplete Data

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The removal of persons and their social, political and economic concerns from the “main” frame in a society to a lesser prioritized and less often discussed forum. Learn more in: Unlocking the Liberation Doctrine in Media Literacy and Higher Education

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Discrimination and exclusion of groups based upon socially constructed hierarchies. Learn more in: “The World is So Much Bigger”: Preservice Teachers' Experiences of Religion in Israel and the Influences on Identity and Teaching

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Treatment of a person, group or concept as insignificant or peripheral. Learn more in: Men and Women Against the Other

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The process of pushing a group (usually with different characteristics from the group that represents the dominant or “default” culture) towards the edges of the society. Learn more in: Distributing Leadership Within Rural Schools: Sharing Responsibility for Diverse Student Needs

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Systemic and structural process of psychological distance from mainstream culture. Learn more in: Systems-Based Approaches to Speech-Language Pathology Service Delivery for School Age Children

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The process whereby a group of individuals who share physical, cultural, or other characteristics is ostracized from other societal groups which leads to differential and unequal treatment and the population being underserved in one or more ways. Learn more in: The Integrative Model of E-Health Use

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The act of holding societal beliefs that keep a person and/or group in a powerless, vulnerable, unimportant, or misunderstood position. Learn more in: Toward a Critically Conscious and Culturally Competent Telepractice in Psychology

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To deem unimportant, unequal, powerless. Learn more in: The Grand Connection: Leadership Is Connecting With Others Through a Greater Purpose

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A feeling of being neglected economically, socially, and politically by the government. Learn more in: Majaivana and Protest Music in Zimbabwe: A Challenge to Political Hegemony and Marginalization

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The social process by which a person or a group of people are made marginal or become relegated to the fringe or edge of society. It occurs when people is pushed to the edge of a society, usually as an effect of discrimination making the person standout and look different from everybody else. They consequently feel alone and left out from the rest of society. Learn more in: Information Society, Digital Divide, and E-Governance in Developing Countries

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A lack of representation or value; to push to margins rather than the center. Learn more in: Inclusivity in the Archives: Expanding Undergraduate Pedagogies for Diversity and Inclusion