After watching the movie, I was very surprised to see the culture values men than women, for example, the husband cared more about the gender than the mother and the baby’s well being. The husband portrays his disappointment after finding the baby is a girl “enough girls now. We need a boy.” (2:58 Winnie Mandela, 2012). I believe that everyone is valuable in the community and should have a voice and an opportunity, but as I become more aware of cultural differences, I learn to acknowledge their beliefs and traditions. The setting of police informants on fire with a tire around their neck alive and the killing of the teenage boy was surprising and bothering. I felt that this is cruelty and goes against my practices and culture where there is a justice system, however, this might be acceptable in their culture, and I should not impose my beliefs, practices and values or stereotype. The killing of the teenage boy also bothered me even though justice prevails at the end.
The most intriguing thing is when the two people come to evaluate and shocked to see the teacher is doing a great job. The classroom is an open field where there are no tables or desks, but the kids are learning, for example, Winnie reciting the Shakespeare Sonnet was both intriguing and engaging. I
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The classroom is an open field where there are no tables or desks, but the kids are learning, for example, Winnie reciting the Shakespeare Sonnet was both intriguing and engaging. I was making my own assumption that the environment was not conducive for kid’s learning. The teaching in the middle of an open field seemed more of a distraction to me in addition to cattle’s grazing at a distance. This reinforced my cultural awareness that assumptions are wrong and that vulnerable population will use the available resources and lack of classroom did not halt the kid’s education and
Stereotyping is violent. During the film, when Officer Hansen and Officer Ryan are on duty searching for a particular carjacked vehicle. Ryan decides to stop a black SUV. Inside there is an interracial couple. The whole situation changes as he decides to hold their hands up and put them against the car. The couple, Cameron and Christine, are both convinced and have no choice but to follow the officer’s orders. Within moments, Christine is molested and sexually abused by Officer Ryan as he is searching her. Officer Ryan stops the couple for no reason. The couple is discriminated and handled with such pain and abuse. It is a wrong action. The officers here are not doing their job of assisting, protecting, and regulating people. Rather, in this instance, they abuse these innocent individuals and, most importantly, these officers lost their trust and respect. Stereotyping leads to misjudgments and often influences sexual violence over groups of people.
Help students increase their perception of control over their environment by showing them how to better manage their own stress levels. Instead of telling students to act differently, take the time to teach them how to act differently. By introducing conflict resolution skills, teaching anger and frustration management, helping student set goals, role-modeling, teaching and exemplifying social skills, as a teacher I can have a huge impact on these children and could help buffer the effects of their habitus, cultural capital, SES, and step in to help stop the cultural reproduction of social inequality in my classroom. Ultimately, I want my students to benefit from the hidden curriculum in my classroom, and I would work hard to ensure that the unwritten, unofficial, and often-unintended lessons, values, and perspectives I expose my children to are beneficial and positive in shaping their
In conclusion, after view this film, it is clear that one can see how black youth are being viewed as killers and savages. This is not true. There have been many admirable scholars and scientists who come from the African American culture. This movie, though it depicts what goes on in South America, takes the violence committed by black youth too far. One cannot view a film and take it that this is what a race is like. The filmmakers depicted black youth in a harsher light.
The room is silent. The only noise that can be heard are the soft inhales and exhales coming from the audience. Dazzling lights illuminate the stage. The spotlight is on Nate Parker. The writer and director of the period drama, The Birth of a Nation. That night, Nate Parker was awarded the grand jury prize and the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival. As a black man in America, he defied the odds by attaining a prestige award that most only dream of. The crowd roared with excitement as Parker stood on stage with his unblemished prize. Months before its nation wide release, The Birth of a Nation was already getting Oscar buzz and was being praised by dozens of critics across the country as one of the best films
Paramount to education in America is the concept of the classroom. Common definitions of the average classroom incl...
It takes a lot of skills to get these kids situated. This might help me in my future career because I’m already prepare to work with kids in the future. Especially during lunch time, I have to watch the kids while they eat. Personally, I learned kids love when adults care about them. They like it when I teach them math and they are very motivated when there’s a reward. For example, if the kids finished their home, they get to go play soccer after which motivates them to focus on their homework. They are also excited when they finished their homework at the club; thus they don’t have homework at home. This personally impacted me because it amazes me to see how much the kids love to learn even if they live in poverty places. These kids are motivated to learn which is good for them in the future. Scholarly, I can relate these kids to the book A Hope In the Unseen because these students are similar to Cedric. They live in a poverty area where the education system is low because there is not enough school funding and the dropout rate is high. However, they are motivated to learn. This shows me that there are still hope for the society and people can change that by helping other
... I appreciated the opportunity I got to observe students in their classroom. Elementary schools are diverse in nature. When I compared the previous school visit and this visit, I realize that environment in which children learn affects their success in the future. All elementary schools I visited thus far strive to create academically and socially sound scholars. Each school implements different resources to maximum success for their students. One personal insight I’ve seen in Banaadir is that the staff members and the students are connected even though majority of the staff members are white and the students are African. I’ve also noticed teaching is a profession that requires a great deal of patience because an educator deals with fragile students. If the educator is not patient, then their attitude might influence students to abhor school and learning in general.
This demonstrates to us that no matter how much your legal or moral laws are violated, what matters is how you as an individual react to the situation, justly or unjustly. This movie is centered around the notion that if you are a person of ethnic background, that alone is reason for others to forsake your rights, although in the long run justice will prevail
The space and area in which a child is learning must be accommodating to all of their needs. A responsive environment is a space of any size that is set up and presented in a manner that promotes social-emotional development, physical development, spiritual development, intellectual/cognitive and language/literacy skills. It is important that the class or room promotes a healthy learning environment which allows the children to be independent while still pushing their skills and abilities. Environments are able to shape and direct a child’s learning experience, “We now know that the environment is a valuable teacher if it is amiable, comfortable, pleasing, organized, clean, inviting and engaging…This is true of floor space, ceiling, and wall space” (Krentz, Emerita, & University of Regina, 2013, p.44).
( http://www.academia.edu/). The feeling of knowing that everything we do in class will build on each child’s academic skills makes me have a deeper understanding of why my jobs so important. I always knew it was but now I have a bigger picture. We need to be flexible and look at the child what they need and how we are going integrate it into our lesson plans and being able to see how the room being set up can help the child to explore so much more and have more curiosity in how things work and how they work and why they work. There should be so much put into the centers in each part of your room that way it will increase the child’s curiosity and they will start talking more so they can continue to learn. Children are always wanting to know more. The room needs to be inviting so the children are able to see that if you are interested in the things the child is learning than the child will want more from you and they want more understanding. Knowing that play allows the child to be repetitive with new skills they have learned in the classroom they will keep on doing the same thing till they learn that they can accomplish more. Every day I work with children seeing the way the interact and play and see who is playing with others and who is not playing with
Education is an ever-changing part of society. A classroom teacher is faced with new challenges and obstacles that have never been dealt with before. Students come to the classroom with different life stories. Every student has strengths and weaknesses that surface in the classroom environment. Teachers must understand and focus on utilizing each student's strengths and work to improve weaknesses. Students learn in a variety of ways. The classroom must be a safe zone that appreciates student's viewpoints and allows room for mistakes. When topics in the classroom are related to "real-life" experiences, the information is more likely to be retained. Students learn from one another. The ideas and perspectives that each student brings to the classroom can bring insight into what is being learned. Students have to be allowed to explore new ideas, try them to see if they work, and sometimes fail. When students are encouraged to explore, they begin the process of becoming lifelong learners.
The learning environment connects the classroom to the community through a democratic approach. This community based learning brings the world into the classroom so students can implement social change and challenge social inequalities. The curriculum focuses on student experience and taking social action on real problems such as hunger, violence, and discrimination. It is important to instruct students to explore in group settings so they can work together to analyze and develop theories that can help each other and make a real different in the world. As a future educator, it is important to not only to teach my students the issues in our world, but how we can work together to find
This book has really been beneficial to me this semester. I have grown so far as a cinematographer, I have grown to love that more than editing. I really felt confident about the cinematography of our short film.
My time observing was not only educational for me on how to become the teacher I desire to be, but as well as how to better myself as a student and improve my own learning. I observed some wonderful learning tools that I have since implemented into my own education to develop my own learning.
Racism has taken its place in our society for a long time. It didn’t just take place in the United States of America but in other regions of the world as well, including South Africa. One of the leaders that has brought peace to his society is a man named Nelson Mandela. A black man who became the president of South Africa in a period when racism existed. Nelson has faced a lot of problems because he was a black man. Invectus shows and explains the events that happened during his time. The movie has succeeded in almost every way, the scenes, the characters, the actors, the stetting etc.