...“A Class Divided” In this documentary, Jane Elliot, a third-grade teacher at the time, conducted a two-day experiment that involved teaching about discrimination and prejudice; she wanted to demonstrate to her students that you can’t judge people based on their physical features. Elliot’s students also experienced what it was like to walk in the shoes of many minorities such as African-Americans and Native Americans. Elliot reached a stunning conclusion after the experiment, the children’s academic performance improved. Later, Elliot conducted this experiment with adults and reached similar conclusions than that of her earlier experiments. One theme in this documentary focuses on discrimination and prejudice as ideas that are put into peoples’...
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...1960’s, around the time when Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for civil rights for people of color, a 3rd grade school teacher, Jane Elliot, from Riceville, Iowa was busy at work in an attempt to recreate the negative emotional and physical effects of racism within her classroom. She created an experiment in which she divided her students into unequal groups as a way of creating artificial stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination. Jane Elliot eventually expanded her experiments into the adult population. She has done these experiments on corrections workers in prisons, as well as college students. Through all these experiments, Jane Elliot has made many conclusions and generalizations that can directly relate back to the real world, and hopefully aid in solving the problem of racism. Jane Elliot’s experimentation with stereotypes first began within the walls of her 3rd grade classroom. Before the experiment began she asked the students for their opinions on minority groups. Many of the students answered with statements regarding black people as being dumb and different than whites. They also discussed how African Americans do not have to same opportunities as white people do because of the color of their skin. Jane Elliot continued by effectively dividing the students into unequal groups based on eye color. From the initial division, Jane Elliot treated the students in the brown eyed group as if they were inferior to those in the blue eyed group. She set a vast amount...
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...independent thought; this is according to a study that investigated at which age the amygdala, a portion of the brain dominating control over emotions, becomes more sensitive: “the amygdala undergoes massive changes in functional processing during adolescence, increasing in responsiveness to social stimuli” (Telzer et al. 275). For example, Chad, a young man who was raised to be prejudiced effectively said that those in his life would speak negatively of minorities: in fact, his dad stated “that we had his permission to kill a Black…I heard this constantly” (Lefkoe 2). Another example lies in the relatively famous, unprofessional experiment conducted in an elementary-school classroom led by Jane Elliot the day after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, during which the blue-eyed students were regarded as higher and the brown-eyed as inferior through Elliot’s coaching, cheers, and degrading remarks: “[The blue-eyed children] became mean-spirited and seemed to like discriminating against the ‘inferior’ group” (“A Class Divided: Introduction” 1). Although this spell of taught prejudice did not last long, it continues to serve as a remarkable example of how easily adults can mold the minds of the young. Therefore, by simply telling a young person regarding one’s beliefs, it is all too possible to embed negativity. Next, the environment as a whole easily molds a person’s belief with exposure. Exposure to a negatively biased environment even impacts adults, which was made evident in a...
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...you gotten out of your bed and stubbed your toe, and then your day went downhill from there. Nothing seemed to go right; if something could go wrong, it did. But, how many times have you gotten out of bed really awake and refreshed from the previous night’s sleep and had a great day. In both instances, it wasn’t the events happening, it was the emotion you put with the experience. This is why it is so important to foster a positive learning environment. To this day I don’t care for math because of some negative experiences I had with a couple of teachers in school. We butted heads 12-15 years ago and I still have issues with math today. In order to use emotion in a learning environment you must make it personal. In Jane Elliot’s famous Blue eyes/Brown eyes experiment, she taught the students in her class what real discrimination was about. It was a lesson that hit home with every one of her students and all she did was divide the class by their eye color. She...
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...This is a protected document. Please enter your student or faculty username and password. Username: Password: Log In Need assistance logging in? Contact Technical Support. Doc ID: 1009-0001-1993-00001994 Toll Free: 877.428.8447 M-F, 6am MST or Sat-Sun, 7am-12am MST Find us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter! F I F T H E D I T I O N An Introduction to Multicultural Education James A. Banks University of Washington, Seattle Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City São Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo ISBN 1-269-53060-7 An Introduction to Multicultural Education, Fifth Edition, by James A. Banks. Published by Pearson. Copyright © 2014 by Pearson Education, Inc. Vice President/Editorial Director: Jeffery Johnston Executive Editor: Linda Bishop Editorial Assistant: Laura Marenghi Senior Marketing Manager: Darcy Betts Production Editor: Karen Mason Production Project Manager: Elizabeth Gale Napolitano Manager, Central Design: Jayne Conte Cover Designer: Laura Gardner Cover Art: “Sea and Sky” (013) 2003 © Marvin Oliver Artist Full Service Project Manager: Niraj Bhatt, Aptara® , Inc. Composition: Aptara® , Inc. Printer/Binder/Cover Printer: Courier Westford Text Font: ITC Stone Serif Std 10/12 Text Credits: Page 11, Stiglitz excerpt: From Stiglitz, J.E. (2012). The price...
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...First published by The Writer’s Coffee Shop, 2011 Copyright © E L James, 2011 The right of E L James to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part maybe reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. The Writer’s Coffee Shop (Australia) PO Box 2013 Hornsby Westfield NSW 1635 (USA) PO Box 2116 Waxahachie TX 75168 Paperback ISBN-978-1-61213-028-6 E-book ISBN-978-1-61213-029-3 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the US Congress Library. Cover image by: © Papuga2006 | Dreamstime.com Cover design by: Jennifer McGuire www.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/ejames E L James is a TV executive, wife, and mother of two, based in West London. Since early childhood, she dreamt of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. E L James is currently working on the sequel...
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