Talking point number 6:
Tricia Rose
Quotes:
1) "Profound cultural force..American a society impact everywhere: in marketing, advertising, representations, and images"
- This quote stuck out too me because of the emphasis on how hip hop is everywhere. Its in our daily lives and may not even know it unless we look harder through the lens.
2) "Gangster, Pimp and Hoe trinity are the images that take over commercial hip hop from the mid 90s, there's a market for it."
- I picked this quote because it is very true. Hip hop is portrayed on TV, which allows children to see how children their age act. This then makes them think that, that is how they have to act or dress. These are the stereotypes that children/teens are faced with daily.
3) "Vulnerability is the biggest Achilles Heel".
-This quote Is shown through artists' work. In their songs they portray what their life is like and the particular things they like to have in it. For example: Money,cars, girlfriends, or their house. Most of the songs of these gangsters or pimps have some variety of these things in them.
Comments/ Questions/Points:
This video was very interesting. I hadn't really thought too in depth of hip hop, but this video had allowed me to think more into hip hop and the culture behind it. Also, how hip hop is still involved in our daily lives.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Talking point # 5:
In the service of What? The politics of Service Learning, Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer
Quotes:
1) "Service learning activities seek to promote students' self-esteem, to develop higher-order thinking skills, to make use of multiple abilities, and to provide authentic learning experiences."
- I picked this quote because it shows how by participating in a service learning project it can open the students' eyes to what is out there. Service learning allows them too see that to give to those in need is very successful and it pays off to do so. These projects will stay with the students throughut thier lives and they'll be able to use those experiences with other things that happen in thier life.
2) "The experiental and interpersonal components of service learning activities can achieve the first crucial step toward diminishing the sense of 'otherness' that often separates students - particularly privileged students - from those in need."
- Before this quote it talks about students from an upper-class nighborhood to visit a poor neighborhood school. At first the students had all these pre-concieved notions to how the kids may act, they'd be rude, tough, noisy, unfriendly, don't listen, etc. After visiting that school, the students' preconcieved notions were no longer there. This quote shows how those preconcieved notions happen often and how if students are exposed to different experiences then thier preconcieved notions will no longer be there.
3) "To be critical thinkers, students must be able to consider arguments that justify conclusions that conflict with their own predispositions and self-interest."
- I chose this quote becuase it shows how just be doing service work students thoughts could be more in depth. The volunteers work with several different groups and when that happens their perspectives can change.
Questions/ Comments/ Points:
At first, it was hard to get into the article. It was a lot of facs and satistics, but once into the article it was good. It showed how just by doing a severice learning project you can learn so much about a person or a certain group. When others are helped it is appreciated and showed through that person being helped.
In the service of What? The politics of Service Learning, Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer
Quotes:
1) "Service learning activities seek to promote students' self-esteem, to develop higher-order thinking skills, to make use of multiple abilities, and to provide authentic learning experiences."
- I picked this quote because it shows how by participating in a service learning project it can open the students' eyes to what is out there. Service learning allows them too see that to give to those in need is very successful and it pays off to do so. These projects will stay with the students throughut thier lives and they'll be able to use those experiences with other things that happen in thier life.
2) "The experiental and interpersonal components of service learning activities can achieve the first crucial step toward diminishing the sense of 'otherness' that often separates students - particularly privileged students - from those in need."
- Before this quote it talks about students from an upper-class nighborhood to visit a poor neighborhood school. At first the students had all these pre-concieved notions to how the kids may act, they'd be rude, tough, noisy, unfriendly, don't listen, etc. After visiting that school, the students' preconcieved notions were no longer there. This quote shows how those preconcieved notions happen often and how if students are exposed to different experiences then thier preconcieved notions will no longer be there.
3) "To be critical thinkers, students must be able to consider arguments that justify conclusions that conflict with their own predispositions and self-interest."
- I chose this quote becuase it shows how just be doing service work students thoughts could be more in depth. The volunteers work with several different groups and when that happens their perspectives can change.
Questions/ Comments/ Points:
At first, it was hard to get into the article. It was a lot of facs and satistics, but once into the article it was good. It showed how just by doing a severice learning project you can learn so much about a person or a certain group. When others are helped it is appreciated and showed through that person being helped.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us Linda Christensen
Quotes:
1) "The impact of racism begins early. Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation about people different from ourselves"
- This quote shows hows these topics show up as early as preschool. Children at this age are hearing information around them and they can't depict whether it's true or not. Also, they hear what their parents may talk about or what they may watch on TV. This goes along with this article, because it's about the "myths" that we grow up around.
2) "This is just a dumb little cartoon with some ducks running around in clothes" ... "Then students start to notice the patterns - like the absences of female characters in many of the older cartoons. When women do appear, they look like Jessica Rabbit or Playboy centerfolds - even in many of the new and "improved" children's movies"
- This quote shows how we don't really notice things unless they are looked at closer. Another example besides just the television, there is also childrens' books that interpret how some lives may be. children look or read these things and think that this is the way that life has to be or might be. They put theses ideas in the children's mind at young age, makes it diffucult for when they are older to explain to them that the world isn't entierly like what they've seen or heard.
3) "I realized these problems weren't just in cartoons. They were in everything - every magazine I picked up, every television show I watched, every billboard I passed by on the street."
- This quote shows how these issues aren't just in cartoons and that they are everywhere. People are always judged on how they act or how they dress or how they might do something. The "right" way is what we see in magazines or television shows or etc. and that is what we think is how we are supposed to act. Time has changed and these stereotypes haven't exactly gone away but they are not as bad as they once were.
Questions/ Comments/ Points:
This was a good article. It opened my eyes to a new point of view and see that some of the sterotypical things are hidden in children's cartoons and even the books. When children hear these things at a young age, it stick to thier brain and they don't forget it. If we start to tell children how life really is, it'll be easier when they are older and out in the real world.
Quotes:
1) "The impact of racism begins early. Even in our preschool years, we are exposed to misinformation about people different from ourselves"
- This quote shows hows these topics show up as early as preschool. Children at this age are hearing information around them and they can't depict whether it's true or not. Also, they hear what their parents may talk about or what they may watch on TV. This goes along with this article, because it's about the "myths" that we grow up around.
2) "This is just a dumb little cartoon with some ducks running around in clothes" ... "Then students start to notice the patterns - like the absences of female characters in many of the older cartoons. When women do appear, they look like Jessica Rabbit or Playboy centerfolds - even in many of the new and "improved" children's movies"
- This quote shows how we don't really notice things unless they are looked at closer. Another example besides just the television, there is also childrens' books that interpret how some lives may be. children look or read these things and think that this is the way that life has to be or might be. They put theses ideas in the children's mind at young age, makes it diffucult for when they are older to explain to them that the world isn't entierly like what they've seen or heard.
3) "I realized these problems weren't just in cartoons. They were in everything - every magazine I picked up, every television show I watched, every billboard I passed by on the street."
- This quote shows how these issues aren't just in cartoons and that they are everywhere. People are always judged on how they act or how they dress or how they might do something. The "right" way is what we see in magazines or television shows or etc. and that is what we think is how we are supposed to act. Time has changed and these stereotypes haven't exactly gone away but they are not as bad as they once were.
Questions/ Comments/ Points:
This was a good article. It opened my eyes to a new point of view and see that some of the sterotypical things are hidden in children's cartoons and even the books. When children hear these things at a young age, it stick to thier brain and they don't forget it. If we start to tell children how life really is, it'll be easier when they are older and out in the real world.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Talking Points #3:
Dennis Carlson: Gayness,Multicultural Education, and Community Alicia Tougas
Quotes:
1) "..Some individuals and subjected positions get privileged and represented as "normal" while other individuals and subjected positions are disempowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic, criminal, lazy, lacking in intelligence, and in other ways 'abnormal'."
- This shows how not everyone is accepted. Those who want to be themselves, can't because being themselves is being looked down upon.People should be able to live the way they want without the looks or words from other people around them.
2) "For we do not get very far if we look for what is said about gayness in educational texts. we get much farther if we pay attention to what Susan Sellers calls the "silent spaces" or the "not said" of the text, and what Mike Cormack and others have called the "structuring silences" within texts."
- This quote shows how not everything is exposed to children in schools, only what they think is best for students to hear or read. This is something that is becoming more prominent in our society. Children are now going to school with two mothers or two fathers, not everyone has the "normal" mother and father. If children are exposed to this it will be easier to understand why their friends have parents of the same sex.
3) “Among other things, it involves the constitution of a whole network of support services and organizations designed to help individuals “come out” in a supportive environment and participate in the gay community, including gay counseling services, drop-in centers, support groups, athletic leagues, choruses, and political organizations.”
-This quote stuck out to me because it shows how gay people can go too all of these things for when they want to "come out", whereas straight people don't even have to think about mentioning their sexuality. This is not fair to the gays because when they want to let people know about how they feel they have to worry about what other people may think.
This article was easy to read. It shows how not everyone is noticed/ mentioned about as they should. Also, how those who may be different have to suffer in wondering what other may think when they want to "come out". Gay people should be able to go about life just as those who are straight do.
Dennis Carlson: Gayness,Multicultural Education, and Community Alicia Tougas
Quotes:
1) "..Some individuals and subjected positions get privileged and represented as "normal" while other individuals and subjected positions are disempowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic, criminal, lazy, lacking in intelligence, and in other ways 'abnormal'."
- This shows how not everyone is accepted. Those who want to be themselves, can't because being themselves is being looked down upon.People should be able to live the way they want without the looks or words from other people around them.
2) "For we do not get very far if we look for what is said about gayness in educational texts. we get much farther if we pay attention to what Susan Sellers calls the "silent spaces" or the "not said" of the text, and what Mike Cormack and others have called the "structuring silences" within texts."
- This quote shows how not everything is exposed to children in schools, only what they think is best for students to hear or read. This is something that is becoming more prominent in our society. Children are now going to school with two mothers or two fathers, not everyone has the "normal" mother and father. If children are exposed to this it will be easier to understand why their friends have parents of the same sex.
3) “Among other things, it involves the constitution of a whole network of support services and organizations designed to help individuals “come out” in a supportive environment and participate in the gay community, including gay counseling services, drop-in centers, support groups, athletic leagues, choruses, and political organizations.”
-This quote stuck out to me because it shows how gay people can go too all of these things for when they want to "come out", whereas straight people don't even have to think about mentioning their sexuality. This is not fair to the gays because when they want to let people know about how they feel they have to worry about what other people may think.
This article was easy to read. It shows how not everyone is noticed/ mentioned about as they should. Also, how those who may be different have to suffer in wondering what other may think when they want to "come out". Gay people should be able to go about life just as those who are straight do.
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