This was shown in William Labov’s study of the language of black American pupils. He used a relaxed and informal style, by sitting on the floor and allowing the child to have a friend, and found that the children opened up and spoke more freely. Pupils from pro-school subcultures, who normally come from middle class backgrounds will be more likely to speak to the interviewer. As there are no set questions, there is more opportunity for the pupils to speak about what they think is important. Interpretivists favour this method, as they can get more detailed answers from the pupils.
Due to this problem, Scarman Report suggested to reform ‘recruitment and training’ because of racism in young police officers. Bowling and phillips (2002: 128-9) mentioned that in the 1970s and 1980s police officers widely practiced using ‘oppressive policing techniques’ in the ethnic minority’s communities, such as ‘ mass stop and search operation, the use of riot squads using semi-military equipment, excessive surveillance, unnecessary armed raid, and police use of racially abusive language.’ For example, Willis (1983) mentioned that black males, adult and young, double to be stopped rather than white. Not only for black people, but also West Indians tripled and Asian five times higher on foot. Smith (1983) also mentioned that, many West Indians have experienced to be stopped ‘for almost any reason and very often for no reason
Peggy Orenstein proved this in her essay, "Learning Silence: Scenes from the Class Struggle," in which she did field research in junior high schools interviewing and observing the interaction of teachers to their students. I think the reason teachers unknowingly give more attention to a particular gender is because of the way that the teachers were brought up to think. The roles of each gender have already been laid out and embedded in the minds of the teachers from their own teachers and parents while growing up. I think that teachers have many preconceived notions of the gender relations of their students. The teachers unknowing pass the ideas that they learned as a child onto their students, who also do not realize that it is being done to them.
A Talk to Teachers In 1963, James Baldwin gave the “A Talk to Teachers” speech to a group of whit New York City school teachers. His speech was given during the height of the Civil Rights movement, about the difference in treatment of whites and blacks in the education system. He talks of a social criticism of public schools and describes how the problems are reflected in the larger society. “Now, if what I have tried to sketch has any validity, it becomes thoroughly clear at least to me, that any Negro who is born in this country undergoes the American educational system runs the risk of becoming schizophrenic.” To prove his point, Baldwin uses anaphora, parallelism and loaded words, he is trying to convince the white teachers, of New York City, to help change society, starting with the educational system. Baldwin uses anaphora in his “A Talk to Teachers” speech.
It showed how much of an eye- opener it was for the adults and the third graders. Surprisingly, the third acted more mature than the adults. It was amazing to watch how much someone can change in a twenty minute period of time toward Elliot just by trying to teach about discrimination. The main concept I think Elliot is trying to teach is that racism and discrimination is a learned behavior and not something that is just in our genetics. The film shows that when you learn something, you can unlearn it also.
Group 1- bullies, group 2- bully-victims, group 3- victims, and group 4- pro-social children. Reliable measures used to identify these groups were done by peer reports and teachers ratings. Both teachers and peer reports used due process when measuring each child’s propensity for the group they were nominated for. The ‘peer reports’ method consisted of explaining samples of behaviors for each group of children then conducting one on one interviews with them asking specific questions related to their opinions of who would fall into each group of bullying and why. The ‘teachers reports’ method consisted of a questionnaire with a four point and five point scale to rate behaviors demonstrated by the children in the sample group.
By having this ability to recognize oppression helps to reject the destructive influence of messages caused by oppression.There are many ways in which we can teach children how to recognize derogatory depictions of other people as stereotypes and how to respond to them. Tatum had a good example of how to do this with her son and the book series they were reading together. Another example she used is when she explained the racism that was hidden in the ever popular
La’Toyrious Granville Mrs. Sharon Cargill English 12 20 February 2013 Racial Profiling Racial Profiling is mentally segregating and it disunites the U.S.A because it permits negative aspects to every race. In the U.S. it is acceptable to embrace foundations and establishments like BET, Black Entertainment Television, and/or The Chinese District, For example, but what if these titles were revised to WET, White Entertainment Television or The Iraqi District? Would these organizations be appropriate or racially disgraceful? From any standpoint it is mental segregation. Programs like the previously listed instills the negative trait of racial profiling into child before he or she has any idea of what racial profiling is, it programs them to judge and make race a chief factor when it should not be (Psycho 1).
I learned that from the movie A Class Divided, there is a way to teach people about discrimination. The techniques used by the teacher in A Class Divided can help children at an early age learn about socialization. And by taking the approach the teacher did she created what Charles Horton Cooley referred to as the Looking -Glass Self. If we learn who we are by the interactions we have with others even just for one day, the views we start carrying within ourselves can change. (Schaefer,2007) The very fact that our self-concepts can change as fast as one day is an example of how much discrimination can mold a mind.
I have no clue whom Hubner was targeting while writing this book, but I feel that anyone who plans on having a child should read this. It gives perfect awareness to abused children and the way they are victimized and the direct correlation to juvenile delinquency. Perhaps Juvenile Justice Policy makers should read also. But the main target of all should be the conservative society who wants to lock up all juveniles. Maybe now they can see that these kids go through a