How to teach children about discrimination...
#1
How to teach children about discrimination...
and why it's wrong.
This piece of film is quite old, but still very valid. A teacher demonstrates what discrimination is to her pupils with a very valuable lesson in humanity.
Fairly long, but as valid today as it was then and I think it's really worth taking the time to watch. She is/was obvioulsy a great teacher.
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-teac...n-imaginable-2
This piece of film is quite old, but still very valid. A teacher demonstrates what discrimination is to her pupils with a very valuable lesson in humanity.
Fairly long, but as valid today as it was then and I think it's really worth taking the time to watch. She is/was obvioulsy a great teacher.
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-teac...n-imaginable-2
#2
Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
and why it's wrong.
This piece of film is quite old, but still very valid. A teacher demonstrates what discrimination is to her pupils with a very valuable lesson in humanity.
Fairly long, but as valid today as it was then and I think it's really worth taking the time to watch. She is/was obviously a great teacher.
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-teac...n-imaginable-2
This piece of film is quite old, but still very valid. A teacher demonstrates what discrimination is to her pupils with a very valuable lesson in humanity.
Fairly long, but as valid today as it was then and I think it's really worth taking the time to watch. She is/was obviously a great teacher.
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-a-teac...n-imaginable-2
#3
Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
I'd say we need to add : Race, Faith, Gender, Sexual orientation , Nationality and Social Standing to this.
Excellent teacher.
Although I wonder...what were to happen if this was done by a teacher today?
Excellent teacher.
Although I wonder...what were to happen if this was done by a teacher today?
#4
Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
I'd love to know what her pupils had to say about her teaching many years later. I hope this lesson stayed with them.
I suspect that in many places today a teacher would get into trouble for speaking as she did.
#7
Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
I once got an almighty bollocking for saying 'Children should be obscene and not absurd'...
#8
Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SpF3cwJ86A
The adults version is a classic too. All part of my education.
The adults version is a classic too. All part of my education.
Last edited by Beakersful; Jun 26th 2013 at 4:12 pm.
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Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
Awesome.
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Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
The real lesson is that there's a strong human instinct to discriminate against one another. Is it possibly built into our biology? Is it 'wrong'?
#11
Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
You should only discriminate once they have proved themselves to be a twat.
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Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
Assuming that most people would answer the above questions positively, at what point would sound judgment turn into discrimination? 99%? 95%? 75%? 50.00001%?
#13
Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SpF3cwJ86A
The adults version is a classic too. All part of my education.
The adults version is a classic too. All part of my education.
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Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
If 99.99% of people bearing the same arbitrary physical trait with whom you interacted behaved in a particular way, would it be rational to conclude that the next person bearing that same physical trait would behave in a similar way? And, having reached that conclusion, would it be sensible to treat that person in a way that--for you--is appropriate for the way that you conclude he will behave?
Assuming that most people would answer the above questions positively, at what point would sound judgment turn into discrimination? 99%? 95%? 75%? 50.00001%?
Assuming that most people would answer the above questions positively, at what point would sound judgment turn into discrimination? 99%? 95%? 75%? 50.00001%?
My response was based on the individual. You can use the 'looks like a duck, walks like a duck' argument, but it's not fair and is discriminatory if you act on it. I find it's often best to reserve judgement until I get some form of evidence either way.
Of course, there is also a difference between making fun of national stereotypes and being racist/discriminatory.
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Re: How to teach children about discrimination...
Is the clip really worth watching?? I read the preamble blurb jobby, and it described 'The Catcher In The Rye' as 'required reading' whereas it is as we all know the most overrated piece of pretentious garbage ever to offend my eyeballs (thankfully, I gave up after about 20 pages).