Blog #10

Education In Politics

Ira Shor

1. If i were a primary - grade teacher, I would devote my time to problems if socialization.  The most important thing children learn is not the three R's.  Its socialization.

• The main thing that kids need to know is how to interact with other kids. This should be the first thing that is taught.  If kids don't learn how to socialize then they will not make it through school.

1. They favored student - centered curricula oriented to the making of knowledge rather then the memorization of facts."

• This is very true.  We should teach for kids to learn not to memorize.  When your memorizing something your not really learning it.

1. "Situated teaching avoids teacher-centered syllabi's and locates itself in the students culture."

• Children will learn better if what they are learning about is interesting and about them or their life.

This Reading was an easy read for me the only thing  that bothered me with it is about the socialization part.  My seven year old brother has social anxiety.

BLOG #9

Citizenship in Schools:Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome                                        Rachel Miale

By : Christopher Kliewer

1. "I started to notice that I didn't like the classes I was taking called special education.  I had to go through special ed. Almost all my life.  I wanted to take other classes that interested me.  I had never felt so mad I wanted to cry."

•  I believe that we shouldn't put special needs kids in seperate classes.  they are kids and they want to be around kids there own age. 

1. "Now we know that people with disabilities can learn and have a full, rich life.  The challenge is to erase negative attitudes about people with developmental disabilities, get rid of the stereotypes and break the barrier for people with disabilities."

• I believe that we should start teaching kids at a young age the other kids with disabilities are the as everyone else, they just mught act and look different.  But kids should be tought  that its not right to make fun of them jusrt because they have a problem.  We shouod teach kids about each disibilities out there so they know about it and they would understand the child who has it more.

1. "I don't tend to see Down Syndrome ass something.  If you look at those three kids running around the room, they're incredibly different from each other."

•  Even though kids night have disabilities they are still kids and should be treat the same as everyone else.  They are still kids and want to do things like other kids.  These kids are special not because they have a disability but because they can do things others can't.

This reading was very hard for me because my little sister is a special needs child and its very hard to hear or talk about it.

Special needs in schools

http://youtu.be/hH9QvxAJnbk

Blog #8

Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work

Jean Anyon

1.) "It is no surprise that schools in wealthy communities are better then those in poor communities or that they better prepare their students for desirable jobs."

       This is unfortunately true.  Schools in richer communities are better only because they have the supplies and the poorer schools don't.  For example Central Falls is in a poor community, when Cumberland in a richer communities.  The kids in Cumberland go further only because thy have the supplies and Central Falls doesn't. 

2.) "The social-class designation of each of the five schools will be identified, and the income, occupation and other relevant available social characteristics of the students and their parents will be described."

        I don't agree with categorizing a school only in categories.  Each school is different. No two school are the same.  I also believe that the parents income has nothing to do with how the student learns.. 

3.) "These differences may not only contribute to the development in the children in each social class of certain types of economically significant relationship and not other s but would thereby help to reproduce this system of relations in society."

     

This reading is an easy read.  However i do not agree with most of what is said in this reading.  I don't believe that two schools should be categorized in the same category. 

BLOG #7

Race, Class, and Gender

by: Peter Mclaren

1.) "Blacks and similar minorities believe that in order for a minority person to succeed in school academically, he or she must learn to think and act white."

        This s not true i have many black friends and they do not act white and they succeed in school just like i do.  I believe that everyone acts different and succeeds on there own level.

2.) "To act white includes speaking English, working hard in school to get good grades, being on time and so on."

    I don't see how these things is acting white.  Everyone does these things no mater what color they are or where they are from.  It doesn't make any sense to me. 

3.) "Many incidents of violence, sexism, and racism in the class room are in reality reactions to economic exploitation and culture dislocation and to what is perceived as the oppressive experience of schooling."

    

This reading was ready hard for me to understand.  this reading doesn't make any sense to me.  I don't agree with anything in this reading.

Number Six

A Particularly Cheap White Whine
By Tim Wise

1. "In truth, only 3.5 percent of college students of color receive any scholarship even partly based on race, suggesting that such programming remain a pathetically small of the financial aid picture in this country, irrespective of what a gaggle of reactionary white folks might believe."

• Most of the students that go to college have a reason and acually want to be there.  Students just dont go out and say that oh because there is a scholarship for black people im going to go to college. Its not like that at all.  I don't believe that we should get mad about it because theres scholarship for whites and blondes with blue eyes and more.  The people who make the scholarships arent trying to be races they are trying to be fair.

1. "In terms of ideology, racism is the belif on the inherent superiority/inferiority of one race to another, while institutionally it refers to polices, practices or procedires that have the effect of perpetuating systemic inequalities between the races, and which deny persons of a particular race equal oppertunity with those of other races."

1. "Black students are far more likely than white students to come from lower-income families, and in fact, at selective colleges and universities, the average black students comes from a family with half the median income of the average white student."

• This is right and wrong in many ways.  This quote is stereotypical.  There are black families out there that do come from money.  I disagree with this quote very much.

This artical was an easy read for me but there was some things that I did not agree with.

Number Five

In The Service Of What?

By Joseph Kahne

1. "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

• Its better to do things for other people.  You feel good after you do something for someone else.  It is better to put others first before yourself.

1. "The hope was that students' values and beliefs might Be transformed by these experiences."

• By having children do service for others, it will make them known of what people go through.  Having students do service with others.  Also teaches the kids to be grateful for what they have as well.

1. "Rather then assume erroneously, that all educators share the same vision, we think it is better to be explicit about the numerous and different visions that drive the creation and implementation of service learning activities in school."

• Every teacher has a different style of teaching.  Some teachers teach straight by the rules some don't.  It helps to have service learning activities can be about what the teacher is teaching and help the child understand." 

This article was an easy read for me.  I liked how they mentioned the famous quote from president Kennedy .