We WILL meet for class tomorrow and I'm expecting we'll all have read the assigned Introduction to Contextualizing Teaching and the first reading in the packet.
Please contact me at my LSU email jennm@lsu.edu if you're not going to make it to class.
Hope you're all well - we just got power yesterday at my home in the Garden District....I know much of BR is still waiting.
Dr.M
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Glad to see everyone made it back ok and is thankful we do not have to go through this again this week!
see you ladies tuesday!
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I am SOO relieved that Ike didn't coming towards us. I still don't have power from the first hurricane so it would have been disastrous. I hope everyones getting their lives back together alright!
Hey guys i hope no one lost power from IKE...hope everyone had a great weekend and ill see yall on tuesdayy! :)
Hey guys!! I hope everyone had a great weekend,(GEAUX TIGERS!!)and everything is back to normal! Hurricane season is not my favorite! See ya'll on Tuesday!
I want to share a you tube video clip with everyone from my EDCI 1000 class. A student named Kiri Davis recreated a doll test done at the time of Brown v. Board of Ed. It is heartbreaking to watch this one little girl associate herself with the "bad" black baby. The link is www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDa0gSuAcg That is a zero and not the alphabet O in there. I think the video is very much something we could talk about in class. It is part of a larger clip the student did about the struggles that African American girls her age endure.
In response to the video from Chevonne. It almost does not suprise me that when given a choice between the white doll and the black doll the children thought of the white doll as good. In most schools we focus on mainly the accomplishments and philosophies of white males. I think that this would be a good topic to discus in class.
When should a blog topic be up?
I don't have internet at home so I'm having to go elsewhere to get it and wanted to be sure I posted for the week!!
If the children think that the black doll is the "bad" doll, then what do they think of themselves? This is so sad.
Thanks for posting this Chevonne...I'll need to watch the video.
YES - this is something we shoudl discuss in class - we are socialized in many ways - all of us - and many of those "ways" are hurtful and impact students at teh core of who they are.
Thanks for posting.
dr.m
Just watched the video - there are interesting things going on here. I can think of one thing I'd like to know more about right away...and that is the race of the interviewer. If she is white, I wonder how that may impact her interview with black children? And their responses?
I would also contend that teaching black children (either conciously or subconciously) self-hatred and inadequacy is a function of white racism...in the end, which serves to privilege all of those who are white.
We will certainly talk soon about race issues more in education...stay tuned.
I'd love to hear others' thoughts on the video as well.
I'll post it as a separate THREAD so people know it's here!
Thanks, Chevonne for starting a great and powerful conversation.
jenn
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