emotionally complex lesson. The teacher‚ Jane Elliot discovered that ultimately racism boils down to an unjustified dislike or hatred of a person based on something that does not truly make people different‚ such as skin color. In trying to explain this to her students‚ she came up with a simple yet unbelievably effective exercise made to teach a lesson by separating the students according to their eye color. Having her students separate according their eye color‚ Jane Elliot created an artificial segregation
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The main point of Jane Elliot’s study was to demonstrate to the children how prejudices and pre judgements of a person based on their physical appearance‚ race‚ ethnicity and even eye color can be demeaning to a person’s self worth. At first the students did not believe the impact that discrimination and racism takes on a person until Jane Elliot put the experiment into effect. The experiment was to break the children in groups based on eye color‚ which also can be expressed as social categorization
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experiment a) Jane Elliot a teacher tell her class of 9 years old that people with blue eyes are more intelligent and better than those with brown eyes. Brown – eyed students were to sit at the back and given less break time. Very quickly the brown – eyed became depressed‚ angry and started to perform less well. The next day she told the class that she made a mistake and that blue – eyed were more intelligent. At the end she debriefed students. b) The effectiveness of Jane Elliott’s well-known
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In this time and now in American History this was crucial for people to understand differences between ethnic backgrounds. A lot of different things about this short movie surprised me. It was a different style of learning. Jane Elliott is pretty much a beast when it comes to being a teacher‚ diversity trainer‚ lecturer‚ and anti- racism activist. This experiment first took place is the 1960s with her 3rd grade class. She stated in the film that she has been thinking about doing this experiment for
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Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. a teacher in Riceville Iowa‚ Jane Elliot wanted to show her students what it means to discriminate against someone. They had just named Martin Luther King Jr. as their “Hero of the month” and no one could understand what would compel someone to assassinate someone so good. She wanted to let her students understand what it’s like to be discriminated against and what it was like to discriminate against people‚ letting the students experience both
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A Reaction on Jane Elliot Experiments Jane Elliott is an American former third-grade schoolteacher‚ anti-racism activist‚ and educator‚ as well as a feminist and LGBT activist. She is known for her "Blue eyes–Brown eyes" experiment. After watching Jane Elliott’s experiments‚ I came to the realization that it doesn’t matter what group we belong in we are ALL racist. Blacks against Whites‚ Whites against Blacks‚ Hispanics against Whites‚ Whites against Hispanics‚ etc.…the list goes on and on. The fact
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that truly stuck out to me was when one of the females felt like she was being picked on by Jane Elliot. She was a white female with short hair‚ the only one to walk out of the room. Jane Elliot states‚ “When your hand is up you are thinking about what you are trying to say rather than listening.” She wasn’t listening to Jane Elliot‚ she felt attacked and talked back and then walked out of the room. Elliot made a point when the student walked out of the room‚ that‚ “Martin Luther King was shot‚ but
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Last Thursday I attended the on campus event in which Jane Elliot introduced her "Angry Eye" experience. Viewing this video helped me to truly understand how people of minority races are treated because of their skin color on a daily basis. During her presentation she started by informing us that most maps that we see in school are proportionately incorrect. She made the point that the maps were made to make the United States and Greenland look larger that they really are. She said the miss-education
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I believe Jane Elliot effectively created two unequal groups in the three times we watched her run her experiment. Each time one group was given considerable special treatment. The "majority" group was giving things like being allowed into the conference room early‚ given seats and a more comfortable environment‚ and treated with respect. The advantages were even more distinguishable for the "minority" group who was subjected to sub par conditions‚ forced to wear bands of shame‚ and faced even harsher
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Sexism Exposed The movie G.I. Jane was written by Daniel Alexander. The film was directed by Ridley Scott and was released in 1997. The film is about a female senator that succeeds in getting a woman‚ Jordan O’Neil (Demi Moore)‚ into the Navy SEALS training. If women compare favorably with men in a series of test cases‚ the military will integrate women fully into all branches of the Navy. The female character goes through rigorous training right alongside the men. Everyone expects the woman
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