After reading Baldwin, City Kids, City Schools. I was shocked at how little I knew about the struggles of African Americans in the USA, resulting in my own interpersonal examination and finding out how much was I ignoring many the mentioned issues.
When reading Watson, from Rethinking Schools. I found that it made very little mention of multiracial individuals, and how they fit in todays society. As a multiracial individual myself (50% Chinese, 50% Colombian) who grew up in the States, I am often asked how do I define myself? Chinese? Colombian? Or American?. It puts a lot of pressure in an individual to have to choose one culture or race that can define oneself fully 100%. In reality is that I am all and some more. My children for example …show more content…
We are so busy in our daily life’s that we hardly ever stop to think why. Whenever we are in a discussion with someone we hardly ever get deeper into the issue because we are too busy making our point, knowing how to listen, and asking questions is more important then proving the point. And at the end we might even be wrong after all.
Creating safe classroom environment, welcoming ideas, discussions, opinions, and multi-diversity is a fundamental right for a student.
As educators are holding the responsibility to make necessary changes, and/or adjustments that are making an impact in the world.
What I conceive from Greening the Ghetto is that in order for us to be full participants of change in our educational system, in our society; we need to be sincere with ourselves first, and open to new experiences and new cultures. More so if we choose to be educators. Being honest and realizing our shortcomings can greatly benefit our students, being open to new experiences, new cultures, ideas, ect, can lead into a great new understanding of our interpersonal world. Technology (youtube, skype, facebook, snapchat etc.) is closing the gaps and has open the doors for such wide range of dialogue, we are already learning so much from each other. We are already seeing certain changes in our
When reading Watson, from Rethinking Schools. I found that it made very little mention of multiracial individuals, and how they fit in todays society. As a multiracial individual myself (50% Chinese, 50% Colombian) who grew up in the States, I am often asked how do I define myself? Chinese? Colombian? Or American?. It puts a lot of pressure in an individual to have to choose one culture or race that can define oneself fully 100%. In reality is that I am all and some more. My children for example …show more content…
We are so busy in our daily life’s that we hardly ever stop to think why. Whenever we are in a discussion with someone we hardly ever get deeper into the issue because we are too busy making our point, knowing how to listen, and asking questions is more important then proving the point. And at the end we might even be wrong after all.
Creating safe classroom environment, welcoming ideas, discussions, opinions, and multi-diversity is a fundamental right for a student.
As educators are holding the responsibility to make necessary changes, and/or adjustments that are making an impact in the world.
What I conceive from Greening the Ghetto is that in order for us to be full participants of change in our educational system, in our society; we need to be sincere with ourselves first, and open to new experiences and new cultures. More so if we choose to be educators. Being honest and realizing our shortcomings can greatly benefit our students, being open to new experiences, new cultures, ideas, ect, can lead into a great new understanding of our interpersonal world. Technology (youtube, skype, facebook, snapchat etc.) is closing the gaps and has open the doors for such wide range of dialogue, we are already learning so much from each other. We are already seeing certain changes in our