Video number three featured three presentations from Baroness Glenys Thornton, Clifford Harding, and Henry Bonsu. All three of these presentations involved the different perspectives that can take place with students in the classroom; all three presentations emphasized on Great Britain in particular and how these minority groups are currently viewed as inferior groups within Great Britain.
Baroness Glenys Thornton outlined how minority groups are underrepresented in the British government by looking at all ethnic groups collectively in Great Britain in her presentation. She stated that in the British Parliament, the percentage of members in parliament who are of minority decent is around seven percent. The actual percentage of these members in Great Britain are around ten percent. Therefore, these minority groups are underrepresented by about three percent of the general population (Thornton, 2015). However, I feel as if these statements are fairly common knowledge when talking about minority groups.
Clifford Harding took a more individualized approach to this issue that I feel should be emphasized that requires a little more critical thinking to …show more content…
We as teachers can implement culturally relevant information into our classrooms in order to provide different perspectives to our students without diving deeper into the meanings of these different cultural perspectives (which leads to disconnections for some students), or we can try to dive deeper and try to implement meaningful multiculturalism techniques in our classrooms so that our students will be able to create a progressively more equal society (which will connect all students from all ethnic groups). With all of the recent advancements in areas such as technology and social justice for all, I hope that we will be able to provide more meaningful multiculturalism techniques into our
Baroness Glenys Thornton outlined how minority groups are underrepresented in the British government by looking at all ethnic groups collectively in Great Britain in her presentation. She stated that in the British Parliament, the percentage of members in parliament who are of minority decent is around seven percent. The actual percentage of these members in Great Britain are around ten percent. Therefore, these minority groups are underrepresented by about three percent of the general population (Thornton, 2015). However, I feel as if these statements are fairly common knowledge when talking about minority groups.
Clifford Harding took a more individualized approach to this issue that I feel should be emphasized that requires a little more critical thinking to …show more content…
We as teachers can implement culturally relevant information into our classrooms in order to provide different perspectives to our students without diving deeper into the meanings of these different cultural perspectives (which leads to disconnections for some students), or we can try to dive deeper and try to implement meaningful multiculturalism techniques in our classrooms so that our students will be able to create a progressively more equal society (which will connect all students from all ethnic groups). With all of the recent advancements in areas such as technology and social justice for all, I hope that we will be able to provide more meaningful multiculturalism techniques into our