SUPPLEMENT 1: The Value(s) of An Education

 

 

“When someone with the authority of a teacher, say,

Describes the world and you are not in it, there is a

Moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked

Into a mirror and saw nothing."

-Adrienne Rich Invisibility in Academe

"Changing Education Paradigms" (RSA Animate)

Rethinking the Culture(s) and Value(s)

of American Education

 

Required Listening: 

IN-ClASS AUDIO: James Baldwin 

"Living and Growing in a White World"

Ice Cube Ganster Rap Made Me Do it

 

Strongly Recommended: 

 

"A Class Divided" (1985)

In 1968, Jane Elliot, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided here third-grade class into bue-eyed and brown-eyed groups. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on those children, and its enduring significance thirty years later.

 

 

 

Strongly Recommended:

 

"A Girl Like Me"

Directed by Kiri Davis

 

"In my high-school literature class", Kiri Davis "constructed an anthology with a wide range of different stories that I believed reflected the black girls experience. For the different chapters, I conducted interviews with a variety of black girls in my high school, and a number of issues surfaced concerning the standards of beauty imposed on today's black girls and how this affects their self-image."