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Linda Christensen is an educator who supports the use of an innovative curriculum in the classroom. Having taught secondary education, Christensen has encouraged her students to take action and combat oppression in order to promote social equality.
Christensen says that the media teaches us a "secret education."
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“[I]t can be overwhelming and discouraging to find that our self-images have been formed by others, but if we don’t dissect them, we will continue to be influenced by them.” (Christensen 133)
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"...my whole self image has been formed mostly by others or underneath my worries about what I look like..." (Christensen 128-129)
"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." (Christensen 134)
Society, as well as the media, creates a stereotypical "ideal" image for people to desire.
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"[L]earning and service reinforce each other and should come together in America's schools..." (Kahne and Westheimer 1)
“…a given service learning activity can embody commitments to both change and charity…” (Kahne & Westheimer 6)
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"Teach the standard form of English and students' home language together with an appreciation of dialect differences to create an environment of language recognition in the classroom" (Collier 227)
"Be aware that children use first language acquisition strategies for learning or acquiring a second language." (Collier 223)
Classrooms should honor both a student's home language, as well as the public language of society.
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"Issues of power are enacted in classrooms: These issues include: the power of the teacher over the students; the power of the publishers of textbooks and of the developers of the curriculum to determine the view of the world presented..." (Delpit 24)
Service Learning can promote both charity and change, as well as produce transformative experiences for both students and communities.
Authority figures in classrooms need to establish and assert their authority.
Christensen, Linda. "Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us: Critiquing Cartoons and Society." Rethinking Schools 01 Feb. 2007: 126-137. Print.
Kahne, Joseph; Westheimer, Joel. "In the Service of What? The Politics of Service Learning." Phi Delta Kappan 1996: 1-15. Print.
Delpit, Lisa. Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. New York: The New York Press, 1995; 2006. Print.
Collier, Virginia. "Teaching Multilingual Children." Tongue-Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education. Ed. Otto Santa Ana. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. 222-235. Print.
Johnson, Allan G. Privilege, Power, & Difference. McGraw-Hill; 2nd edition, 2005. Print.
(*For Connection to Christensen)
Elizabeth: I feel that I took both intellectual and creative risks in establishing this Service Learning project.
In regards to intellectual risks, this project enabled me to garner a deeper understanding of the theories discussed in class and how each theory could directly relate to a real world experience. In the pre-drafting stage of this project, I had considered each of our theories and applied them to my Service Learning experience. I chose the three instances that I felt were most relevant to their respective theories, and in doing so, I was able to more closely analyze each of these theories.
In terms of creative risks associated with this project, I was able to enhance my skills with digital software. Prior to this project, I had never used Prezi. Wally and I both felt that creating a Prezi as a part of the media element would be most befitting for our project. We agreed upon a certain design (i.e. tree), and I then worked on constructing the Prezi. I found it rather difficult to build the path, but I enjoyed setting up the graphics and altering the colors/landscape. Having never created a Prezi before, I feel that I put a great deal of effort into forming/designing one, and that I took a creative risk in doing so.
Christensen Connects to:
Delpit &
Collier
Christensen believes cartoons have manipulated us subliminally, especially older cartoons.
Use of stereotypes, ‘labeling’ certain people
Portrays certain groups of people in different ways (Ex. Women, people of different color, overweight people, etc)
Depicts Arabs in a certain way
All have same turban, skin color, face and body
All have huge swords
They seal everything; teeth from an old man, food, numbers off a clock, even stripes off a barber pole
By: Wally Beauchamp FNED 346
We considered the theories discussed in class and related them to our Service Learning experiences. We also selected the Service Learning stories that we felt helped to demonstrate these theories.
Wally: PowerPoint on Christensen
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"Teach the standard form of English and students' home language together with an appreciation of dialect differences to create an environment of language recognition in the classroom" (Collier 227)
She also points out racial stereotypes in “Looney Tunes”
Indians featured in this show are ‘degraded’, painting their faces, carrying around tomahawks, only means of communication is smoke signals
Makes Indians “savages, with long black braids and bow and arrows’’
Christensen says how in Popeye, Olive Oyl looks up to Popeye as her hero “man”
Makes women look weak? Dependent on men?
Makes a point about minorities in cartoons
Until recent years, there was no African American ‘princess’.
Disney introduced “Tiana” as their first African-American princess figure; this was not until 2009
Teachers must embrace a student's first language in order to help them be successful in English.
Cultural stereotypes form as a result of society's views, therefore presenting a misperception of reality to many individuals.
Here are pictures from some well-known cartoons. Can you see why there are examples of racist stereotypes?
Christensen Connects to: Johnson &
Kahne & Westheimer
(going from left to right)
1.) Notice the Indian Chief with his face colored red. Also, they are sitting “Indian Style” and wearing feathers on their heads. Very Stereotypical (Peter Pan)
2.) This African-American based centaur is polishing the hooves of a white female centaur, making the African-American a servant. (Fantasia)
3.) This is the cousin of Speedy Gonzalez. His name is Slowpoke Rodriguez, people believe he is a stereotype towards Mexicans because he is very lazy, wears a sombrero and has a heavy Spanish accent (Speedy Gonzalez)
4.) A Siamese cat with squinted eyes is playing the piano with two pairs of chopsticks. This just screams stereotyping Asians (Aristocats)
5.) Notice the African-Americans goofy shaped head as well as his fat pink lips (Warner Brothers)
How to take action?
THEORY CONNECTION: Linda Christensen
Additional Theories:
Kahne & Westheimer,
Lisa Delpit,
Virginia Collier
Elizabeth:
The Met School
Grade Level: 11-12th,
Literacy
Wally:
Mount Pleasant High
Grade Level: 9-10th,
Biology