" In The Service of What"
Shannon Holmes
Talking points #5
This article was good in the way that it taught you the differences between service learning projects. Some of them where based on giving back to the community and helping those less fortunate, and other service learning projects approached the students with more content and had a more long term educational, political,and humanitarian purpose to be carried on far passed the actual project. I feel that any type of service learning project is good for students as a way of experiencing life in a way you may have not been able to without the opportunity.
1) The hope was that students' values and beliefs might be transformed by these experiences. This quote from the article points out the reason for involving students in these projects.
2)The hope was that by manipulating the schools curriculum, they could ultimately change the world. Here they are stating that we need to not only involve students in srvice learning projects, we need to go the extra mile and form lesson around the actual service so that they learn real life lessons that they may act uppon in their lives.
3) The students in Mr. Johnson's class who assembled " Daily Life Kits" which he then distributed to the homeless, determined the kits contents without ever talking with homeless individuals or with those who had knowledge on the subject. He experienced the joys of service, but he had few opportunities for meaningful interactions through which caring relationships and understanding might develope. This statement is saying that students gat satisfaction out of this type of project as well, but the long term learning opportunity is missed when the service learning is not followed with educating the students more about the actual project and people it includes.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us
Shannon Holmes
Rethink Our Classrooms
This was an informative article that asked us to question the messages that are sent to our youth through cartoons and movies. As we get older these messages continue through advertisement. magazines and commercials. The author is stating that as a society we need to make a difference and change the views that we put out there for our our youth. Stereotypes need to be broken starting with our youngest viewers. This educator not only taught his students to recognize the injustices that the media puts out, he also taught them how to make a difference.
1) My waist didn't dip into an hour glass ; in fact, according to the novels I read my thick ankles doomed me to be cast as the peasant woman reaping hay while the heroine swept by with her handsome man in hot pursuit.
This is a feeling shared by many young girls who at a very young age are competing with the images they see in their daily images of how a heroine should look. They are always beautiful, with perfect bodies and they only care about getting their man in the end. This is definetely how most of us want to raise our daughters.
2) Many students don't want to believe that they have been manipulated by children's media or advertising.
Most of us would like to believe that we form our own opinions and ideas without the influence of outside sources. The exercise that the teacher did with the children was a great way to show them how, from a very young age , the media invades us with negative stereotypes.
3) Catkin wanted to publish her piece in a magazine for young women so they would begin to question the origin of the standards by wich they judge themselves.
This was a very valuable life lesson for these students. This lesson lit a fire within some of them that will now carry over into their lives and change the way they view material in the media . It will also impact their lives when they have the oppurtunity to raise their own children. Images of beautiful people surround us,and one of my favorite ads of today is from Dove, that shows women of all shapes and sizes in their underwear . This shows girls that you can be proud of yourself and feel beautiful no matter what shape or size you are. Maybe if more advertisers were willing to take a chance we could break through some of the negative ways we infest our youths minds. Media, cartoons, movies and advertisres need to be more responsible and realize that they are indeed playing a part in shaping our youth.
Rethink Our Classrooms
This was an informative article that asked us to question the messages that are sent to our youth through cartoons and movies. As we get older these messages continue through advertisement. magazines and commercials. The author is stating that as a society we need to make a difference and change the views that we put out there for our our youth. Stereotypes need to be broken starting with our youngest viewers. This educator not only taught his students to recognize the injustices that the media puts out, he also taught them how to make a difference.
1) My waist didn't dip into an hour glass ; in fact, according to the novels I read my thick ankles doomed me to be cast as the peasant woman reaping hay while the heroine swept by with her handsome man in hot pursuit.
This is a feeling shared by many young girls who at a very young age are competing with the images they see in their daily images of how a heroine should look. They are always beautiful, with perfect bodies and they only care about getting their man in the end. This is definetely how most of us want to raise our daughters.
2) Many students don't want to believe that they have been manipulated by children's media or advertising.
Most of us would like to believe that we form our own opinions and ideas without the influence of outside sources. The exercise that the teacher did with the children was a great way to show them how, from a very young age , the media invades us with negative stereotypes.
3) Catkin wanted to publish her piece in a magazine for young women so they would begin to question the origin of the standards by wich they judge themselves.
This was a very valuable life lesson for these students. This lesson lit a fire within some of them that will now carry over into their lives and change the way they view material in the media . It will also impact their lives when they have the oppurtunity to raise their own children. Images of beautiful people surround us,and one of my favorite ads of today is from Dove, that shows women of all shapes and sizes in their underwear . This shows girls that you can be proud of yourself and feel beautiful no matter what shape or size you are. Maybe if more advertisers were willing to take a chance we could break through some of the negative ways we infest our youths minds. Media, cartoons, movies and advertisres need to be more responsible and realize that they are indeed playing a part in shaping our youth.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Gayness,Multicultural Education, and Community
Post #3
Shannon Holmes
by: Sellers, Maxine, and Lois Weis
Beyond Black and White
The authors argues that in our educational system, sexual orientation has been erased from text completely as if it doesnt exist. Schools in general do not adress the issue of gayness as a form of multi-culturalism. The authors think it should be part of our curriculum, such as learning about other races or cultures.
1) Techniques of normalizing and marginalization in education;
a) The erasure of gayness in the curriculum
b) The "closeting" and " witch hunting" of gay teachers.
c) Verbal and physical intimidation of gay teachers and students.
This shows three ways that gayness is not accepted in our educational system.
2)Normalizing text ( covering only those that fit into the norm in society) systematically excludes and neglects the culture of those outside the norm for the purpose of ratifying or legitimating the dominant culture as the only significant culture worth studying.
Text books in our education system do not adress the topic of gayness even if for example a famous writer or scientist is gay. That part of his story would simply be left out and never mentioned.
3) The only place that homosexuality is mentioned is in health text, where it is associated with disease. Stating that " the first group in the U.S. diagnosed with A.I.D.S were male homosexuals.
This shows that the only time we are taught anything about the gay community it is a negative view that is presented.
I found this article tough to read at times and rather long. What i got out of it was that educators should be including gayness in their education along with the lessons given on topics like multi-culturalism.
One of my favorite paragraphs of this article was this one: " In the very least educators should involve young people in a discussion of gay identity within the context of a discussion of human rights in a democratic community and it may extend to a discussion of caring for others"
Shannon Holmes
by: Sellers, Maxine, and Lois Weis
Beyond Black and White
The authors argues that in our educational system, sexual orientation has been erased from text completely as if it doesnt exist. Schools in general do not adress the issue of gayness as a form of multi-culturalism. The authors think it should be part of our curriculum, such as learning about other races or cultures.
1) Techniques of normalizing and marginalization in education;
a) The erasure of gayness in the curriculum
b) The "closeting" and " witch hunting" of gay teachers.
c) Verbal and physical intimidation of gay teachers and students.
This shows three ways that gayness is not accepted in our educational system.
2)Normalizing text ( covering only those that fit into the norm in society) systematically excludes and neglects the culture of those outside the norm for the purpose of ratifying or legitimating the dominant culture as the only significant culture worth studying.
Text books in our education system do not adress the topic of gayness even if for example a famous writer or scientist is gay. That part of his story would simply be left out and never mentioned.
3) The only place that homosexuality is mentioned is in health text, where it is associated with disease. Stating that " the first group in the U.S. diagnosed with A.I.D.S were male homosexuals.
This shows that the only time we are taught anything about the gay community it is a negative view that is presented.
I found this article tough to read at times and rather long. What i got out of it was that educators should be including gayness in their education along with the lessons given on topics like multi-culturalism.
One of my favorite paragraphs of this article was this one: " In the very least educators should involve young people in a discussion of gay identity within the context of a discussion of human rights in a democratic community and it may extend to a discussion of caring for others"
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