Ethnic Studies

 

The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies by Christine E. Sleeter.

https://blackboard.ric.edu/ultra/courses/_103177_1/outline/file/_4401461_1

        Throughout this article, the author arguses the importance of learning about ethnics. The article starts out with introducing Carlos. He graduated high school but was never the best student. He hated school and didn't have plans to go to college. He ran into an old friend that convinced him to take a look at it. He ended up taking some Ethnic classes which he enjoyed greatly. he loved taking the courses and now he's considering a graduate program in education. This shows how learning about ethnics can really change someone's Pov on schooling. It's something they're interested in and can easily relate to and understand. The paper discusses the social and academic value of ethnic studies, comparing it to mainstream "Euro-American Studies." It reviews research on the impact of ethnic studies on students of color and diverse student groups, emphasizing the need for a curriculum that reflects the diversity of the U.S. population. Despite efforts to make textbooks multicultural, many still predominantly feature Euro-American narratives. Ethnic studies offer a different perspective, focusing on the experiences and histories of racial minority groups.

    I agree what the author is arguing. I believe that it is important to learn/teach about different cultures so everyone will be able to have a different perspective on these topics. Its also important because learning about your own culture is interesting and has the ability to keep you engaged and ready to learn.

Four I's of oppression

 

            The four I's of oppression by Luna Malbroux.

LTI Launch

    In the video, Luna first shows us the four I's of Oppression which are Ideological, interpersonal, institutional, and internalized. She argues that the way you are shaped around the world is by gender and by race. She explains how the way your teat people has nothing to do with racism. There are systems that has to do with racism, transphobia, ableism and more. these systems include institutional, internalized, interpersonal, systemic racism, and ideological. Ideological has to do with stereotypes. For example, boys don't cry, or girls should be pretty. These shape how people are guided. Interpersonal is how we have all experienced being treated differently because of an aspect of who we are. Institutional is how institutions reinforce and manifest their ideologies. An example is how are neighborhoods are set up to exclude people. The last I is Internalized. Internalized are messages that may not be explicitly stated. You can see this in movies, books, and the political system. We internalize things because there is a dominate narrative that tells us that there is a standard norm. These are all things that Luna Malbroux argued about throughout the video. 

        I agree with everything that was said. I believe that these main I's are very important in our society because they have formed how people think about things. This video showed us how there is a system with oppression and defined them for us. 

Other Peoples Children

         

        Other Peoples Children by Lisa Delpit.

                    The author, Lisa Delpit, argues through the text how students from different backgrounds             should be taught differently. 

                       She explains how she's tried to talk to other teachers in her school about it and they                 disagreed with her. They were white and telling her how her ideas were wrong. She tried explaining it to them, but they weren't agreeing. Lisa Delpit kept saying how they listen, but they don't hear. She    ended up stopping with arguing with them because she thinks it's not worth it. She believes that they    think they always have to be correct. Some people that she thinks should be taught differently is colored, low class, and different cultured students. Delpit also talks about different issues with power within schools. Some of the examples of power is the power of the teacher over the students, publisher of textbooks and developers of the curriculum, power of the state in enforcing compulsory schooling      and the power of an individual or group to determine another's intelligence. She thinks how people who have more power in our society don't know about their power but people with less power are aware of power in our day-to-day life. 

               

         I believe that we should incorporate other cultures into our teaching habits. I think it'll be a great idea so they students will be able to learn easier and understand material easier. However, I disagree how she kept referring back to "white people have to always be right". I don't agree with putting people in a group with others just because of their race. Although the people who did have an argument against her were white people, not "all" white people are going to argue against her and refuse to be wrong.