FNED 246 Olivia Tetreault

Kohn's chart and Culturally Relevant Prodigy video is arguing for the need to understand a students culture and their individuals needs to have a flourishing classroom. When trying to incorporate culturally relavant prodigy, the culture factor is often forgotten about. There is a need to focus on how to connect students to their education with the use of their beliefs, personal experiences, and ideas. Students come into the classroom with their own experiences and schools need to be able to use these as a way to effectively education. These students are trying to learn through the schools cultural lens and if they are unable to personally connect themselves to it, their ability to learn new information will be restricted.        Race and ethnicity often times is conflated and will misdirect schools and teachers from understanding what a student needs. This will continue to put these students in a system with a one size fits all method that is known to be ...

Troublemakers written by Shalaby was written to put spotlight on the mismarking of 'misbehaving' children in the classroom. Shalaby advocated that children, no matter your background, have the right to freedoms. These freedoms included but weren't limited to the right to safety, the right to be treated as a human being, and the right to language and land. With this belief that many will agree with, she argues that education is one of the primary freedoms that children deserve to have.       Shalaby explains that as well as education being a primary freedom, it also provides kids with a place to learn and exercise the freedoms that they undeniably deserve. However, schools tend to push back on this, creating a system where children are expected to be silent and obey social order rules rather than challenge them. All schools across funding gaps fail to teah their students their freedoms. While some very wealthy schools better establish individuality, students ...

     Sleeters review;  The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies , is arguing that students who are given opportunities to learn about their diverse backgrounds are evidently more interested and engaged in the classroom.  She discusses her experience with a student named Carlos, who although didn't have great grades in high school was driven and enjoyed learning in the classes that were centered around his culture.   After he discovered his love for learning about his culture, he was an avid reader of Mexican vaquero culture and completed two years of community college.  Sleeter explained that the incorporation of Chicano studies had the same impact on many of her students as it did for Carlos.       The integration of Euro-American studies in schools is often overlooked by not only the education system but as well as parents.  Many would assume that students would be able to connect themselves to material that was alread...

      The reading from TREC and video by Luna Malbroux are addressing the types of oppression that people face through four categories; institutionalism, internalized, ideological, and interpersonalized. Malbroux argues that these oppressions manifest very early in life, with the primary topic being gender and race.  These factors weigh heavily and marks individuals into specific stereotypes immediately.  She also addresses how these ideas can be passed through families, an example being parents' experiences based on their race will establish your community and opinions.     Institutionalism was the first type of oppression that was discussed, that addressed the boxing off of  certain groups that can occur in varying circumstances such as funding or neighborhoods.  This is a system that is focused on the idea similarly shared by Delpit that 'those in power, stay in power'.  Delpit stressed that schools who were powered by white teachers...

      Delpit is arguing against the bias that is denied for what is needed in order to teach students with varying racial backgrounds.  Through her various stories, Delpit voices that students who don't fit into what is the culture capital, is at a disadvantage in the classroom.  Many teachers, students, and families have argued against the 'ideal' methods being taught in schools only to have their concerns be shut down.  The stuggle spreads through the denial from specifically white teachers who excuse students lack of understanding as only being their experience.  A published article released by Delpit consisted of 2 opposing responses.  Most of the white peoples responses was questioning and/or arguing against her argument and brushing it off as their ideals.  Non-white responses were the opposite, strongly supporting her article and seeming very passionate on the topic.  Her purpose of this article is to hopefully help people underst...