A Class Divided Reflection Diversity in Society Everyone is likely to experience some form of discrimination or prejudice; as is anyone capable of acting prejudiced towards others. On April 5th‚ 1968‚ a teacher in Riceville‚ Iowa named Jane Elliot conducted an experiment with her third grade class that dealt with the concept of discrimination; and was documented in Peters’ 1985 ‘A Class Divided’. The exercise originally took place the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated. The documentary
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Ashley Pruitt N. Hickson CMST 10 06 March 2013 A Class Divided Essay Jane Elliot taught her 3rd grade students a very valuable lesson about not being prejudiced in 1970.Elliot separated her students into two groups based on the color of their eyes. On different days she claimed that one group was better than the other because of the color of their eyes. She tested the groups by using flashcards on the days that they were the superior group and on days they were inferior. She learned that on
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A CLASS DIVIDED Thirty years ago Jane Elliott taught the third grade in the white‚ Christian community of Riceville‚ Iowa. The day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed she planned an exercise that wouldn’t just show her students what racism is - rather‚ it would give them first-hand experience of what it felt like to be oppressed for something out of their control. Elliott divided her class by the color of their eyes‚ marked them with armbands and proceeded to treat one group as if superior
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Jane Elliott‚ internationally known teacher‚ lecturer‚ diversity trainer‚ and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education‚ exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is‚ an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors. And if you think this does not apply to you. . . you are in for a rude awakening. In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King‚ Jr. over thirty years ago‚ Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling‚ "Blue
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I think that Jane Elliot was a woman before her time. What she put together to teach the children about discrimination was brilliant. I not only watched the first and second parts in class‚ I watched all six parts on You Tube. I laughed and cried watching all six parts. I see that just putting the idea into ones mind can make things happen. I think the most upsetting part of this experiment is that if you place children in the subordinate group they immediately did poorly.I feel that more people
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In the documentary‚ the teacher had white kids in her class and the kids had a sense of how discrimination works out. She had separated the students by having people with brown eyes be more discriminated while the kids with blue eyes have the benefits of having five extra minutes of recess and having their
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Discrimination: Written Assignment Answering Questions About the PBS video A Class Divided Mendi Tidwell Ivy Tech SOCI 111 Introduction to Sociology Discrimination: Written Assignment Answering Questions About the PBS video A Class Divided The PBS video‚ A Class Divided‚ has brought to light a sensitive subject that has plagued societies for hundreds‚ even thousands of years. I have learned a lot about discrimination by watching this video. I was not aware that discrimination
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A class divided is a documentary about a teacher named Jane Elliot who teaches her students about racism first hand. She divides the students into two groups‚ the blue eyes‚ and the brown eyes. For the first day‚ the “brown eyed” children are not able to go to recess‚ or lunch at the same time as the rest of the children. They wear a blue collar around their necks so that they are obviously different at a distance from the other students. They are not allowed to drink from the same water fountains
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According to the book‚ Looking Out‚ Looking In‚ self-concept is the relatively stable set of perceptions that we hold of ourselves. Quite simply‚ it is who we think we are and how we view ourselves as a whole; physically and emotionally‚ as well as the values‚ roles‚ talents‚ likes‚ dislikes‚ etc. that give us a sense of who we are. Our age‚ sexual orientation‚ socioeconomic status‚ physical abilities/disabilities‚ culture‚ ethnicity‚ and gender are the factors that form the foundation of who we
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In this paper‚ I will state my reaction on two videos‚ Eye of the Storm and A Class Divided. These videos are inspired from Jane Elliott‚ a third grade teacher‚ who tested a group of her students in teaching them about discrimination. I definitely agree with Elliott in her process of teaching people the importance of ethnicity and discrimination. From this class‚ I have gained knowledge in different aspects of multicultural. Racism is described as the primary determinant of humans traits and capacities
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