In the Service of what?
The Politics of Service Learning
Joseph Kahne & Joel Westheimer
Authors Arguement:
The authors are arguing that service learning is very important to be done, but that focus should be more represented in the democratic way rather than the individuals feelings on service learning.
Quotes:
1."almost all discussions of service learning practices emphasizes the importance of reflection."
I agree completely with this quote because even with our service learning when we discuss our VIPS in class I feel like I gain more from mine and other peoples experiences. I really think when you look back on the things you accomplish because the more you look back at the good experiences the more you learn and take from it.
2."Similarily many contemporary scholars focus on change over charity and argue that the lack of connection between individual rights and communal obligations within our culture has left us with a bankrupt sense of citizenship."
I think that service and service learnign should be really fro oneself and not to change the world. yes it is wonderful that people are getting together to save each other and help other people out but its a great for a personally experience to get you used to a field, or to make you feel better. Service learning shouldnt be just because people are forcing you to do good, it should be self motivated because you need to do it for yourself.
3." The importance of a meaningful reflective component becomes clearer when one considers the kind of deliberation and student empowerment that such a curriculm can foster"
Basically learn from your experiences. This is completely true. The fact of what your learning comes through more the more you reflect upon it.
Questions/Comments:
I think this is important because I reflect on service learning and I know that it helps me more to realize what I am doing when I think about my service learning. I think it's more important to realize how your serving others and why you are doing it because it makes it that much more fuller.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Talking Point #4 Christensen
Unlearning the Myths That Bind Is
Linda Christensen
Authors Arguement:
Christensen is arguing that the media we have as younger children imbeds into our brain early stereotypes, racisms, and superficial motifs. She reveals that as adults, and parents that it is our responsibility to stop these actions and not let them conitnue because it is not right to have these images being displayed to young children who develop into adults that have these ideas in their heads as being "ok."
Quotes:
1."Women who aren't white begin to feel left out and ugly because they never get to play the princess."
This must be the worst feeling as a non-white women. What little girl (or in my case now) doesn't want to be a princess, or pretend to be one, or be treated like one. When every single princess is white, every single queen and royalty is white, doesn't that give the image as a non-white women could never amount to a princess. This doesn't only make a women feel bad it is also racists, why can't an Africain American women be a princess? There isn't a good reason there should be a non-white princess in a fairy tale, in fact their should be many.
2."Happiness means getting a man, and transformation from wretched conditions can be acheived through consumption-in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle."
A woman does not need a man. Plain and simple. A woman doesnt need to change anything
about herself to get a man, because that just means giving up herself to become something she is not, in turn the man doesn't even want her for her. I hate those movies that the "misfit" girl suddenly becomes this beauty queen and fabulous, and everyone wants to be her friend, every guy wants her, she wins homecoming queen, and she lives happily ever after, all because she did her hair, put some makeup on and took her glasses off. Girls shouldnt feel like they have to be dressed upa nd glammed all the time. Perfection is not beauty it's just a process.
3."We don't call it deception; we call it good taste. And soon it feels akward going to the mailbox without makeup."
WHY?! I can't say this enough. Makeup isn't beauty, its a mask to pretend to be pretty. Material beauty is just that, material. It's just so frustrating to think without a clump of mascara hanging off an eyelash that your ot pretty. Not enough eyeshadow to make you beautiful. When did the time come that walking down the sidewalk to get your mail you need high heels, Gucci sunglassed and the purse that matched.
Questions/Comments:
I cannot wait to talk about this article in class. I really enjoyed reading this article because it was easy and laid back reading. I love that it showed all the diffrent ways that people are influnced as a child. it's hard to actually look at all those Disney movies and realize how much I loved them., but also realize how crazy the stereotypes are, and also how much they really did put images into my head that i kept with me for a very lond time. Oh I just need to talk about this in class, I have too much to say! One last thing, I think ever girl should be a princess once in their life, because every women deserves it nomatter what race :)
Linda Christensen
Authors Arguement:
Christensen is arguing that the media we have as younger children imbeds into our brain early stereotypes, racisms, and superficial motifs. She reveals that as adults, and parents that it is our responsibility to stop these actions and not let them conitnue because it is not right to have these images being displayed to young children who develop into adults that have these ideas in their heads as being "ok."
Quotes:
1."Women who aren't white begin to feel left out and ugly because they never get to play the princess."
This must be the worst feeling as a non-white women. What little girl (or in my case now) doesn't want to be a princess, or pretend to be one, or be treated like one. When every single princess is white, every single queen and royalty is white, doesn't that give the image as a non-white women could never amount to a princess. This doesn't only make a women feel bad it is also racists, why can't an Africain American women be a princess? There isn't a good reason there should be a non-white princess in a fairy tale, in fact their should be many.
2."Happiness means getting a man, and transformation from wretched conditions can be acheived through consumption-in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle."
A woman does not need a man. Plain and simple. A woman doesnt need to change anything
about herself to get a man, because that just means giving up herself to become something she is not, in turn the man doesn't even want her for her. I hate those movies that the "misfit" girl suddenly becomes this beauty queen and fabulous, and everyone wants to be her friend, every guy wants her, she wins homecoming queen, and she lives happily ever after, all because she did her hair, put some makeup on and took her glasses off. Girls shouldnt feel like they have to be dressed upa nd glammed all the time. Perfection is not beauty it's just a process.
3."We don't call it deception; we call it good taste. And soon it feels akward going to the mailbox without makeup."
WHY?! I can't say this enough. Makeup isn't beauty, its a mask to pretend to be pretty. Material beauty is just that, material. It's just so frustrating to think without a clump of mascara hanging off an eyelash that your ot pretty. Not enough eyeshadow to make you beautiful. When did the time come that walking down the sidewalk to get your mail you need high heels, Gucci sunglassed and the purse that matched.
Questions/Comments:
I cannot wait to talk about this article in class. I really enjoyed reading this article because it was easy and laid back reading. I love that it showed all the diffrent ways that people are influnced as a child. it's hard to actually look at all those Disney movies and realize how much I loved them., but also realize how crazy the stereotypes are, and also how much they really did put images into my head that i kept with me for a very lond time. Oh I just need to talk about this in class, I have too much to say! One last thing, I think ever girl should be a princess once in their life, because every women deserves it nomatter what race :)
Monday, October 6, 2008
Talking Point #3 Carlson
Gayness, Multicultural Education, and Community
Dennis Carlson
Authors Argument:
Carlson is arguing that communities, and schools should teach to the people how to realize everyone is normal, and their isn't normal and abnormal people, just people. he also states that it is the job of teachers and leaders to use the words "gay," "lesbian," "homosexuals" etc. in their language because it isn't something to be ashamed of just another aspect of life diffrent from the "normals."
Quotes:
1."gay people have for the most part been made absent, invisible, and silent within this community and at the same time represented as the deviant and pathological "other.""
When I first read the quote I thought to myself I never thought as gay people as invivible or silent, or others. It makes me wonder who really starts by pointin out someone as diffrent. How do we even know what the normal is, or wat should be the normal. It saddens me to think that some people stay silent just because fo their sexuality. When did it happen that people had to be classified by sexuality and not by the person they are.
2."(i.e., black, working class, female, homosexual, etc.) are disempowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic,criminal, lazy, lacking in intelligence, and in other ways 'abnormal'."
WHAT?! I cannot even believe people would write this or even believe it for that matter. I just got so mad after I read that. Not only because I am a female but really, just because of a persons race or sexuality they are dumb and lazy. I would love to know where these people come up with these ideas and how they even get out to the public without the snot beaten out of them. As a future teacher I hope to God I can teach the children I have to be open minded so they don't grow up to be one of these people who have ideas like this. Sometimes I wonder..
3. "The objective of classroom discourse is thus not so much to acheive consensus on on "truth" or "objective" depiction of reality, but rather to clarify diffrences and agreements, work toward coalition-building across diffrence when possible, and build relationships based on caring and equity."
This is our future job, this is what as furture teachers we need to strive to do. I read this quote over a couple of times and I thought to myself, I hope that I can really do this, I hope I'm up to the responsibility I hol as ateacher to shape and mold young people to become better then what I am and how everyone else is. I am really inspired to make changes to young lives.
Questions/Comments:
This was really hard to read for me, I don't know if it was the lanuage or what it was but it was the most difficult piece I've read in the class. I could sort of grasp Carlson's concepts but I mostly understood my quotes, and it was quite hard to even pick some quotes out. I think his writing style was more informative then relaxed so it wasn't as easy to get into. i really did enjoy the fact that we are talking abotu sexual identity though because it is going to be a factor in the classroom, ecspecially being a high school teacher as I'm trying to be. I cant wait for class to talk about it though!
Dennis Carlson
Authors Argument:
Carlson is arguing that communities, and schools should teach to the people how to realize everyone is normal, and their isn't normal and abnormal people, just people. he also states that it is the job of teachers and leaders to use the words "gay," "lesbian," "homosexuals" etc. in their language because it isn't something to be ashamed of just another aspect of life diffrent from the "normals."
Quotes:
1."gay people have for the most part been made absent, invisible, and silent within this community and at the same time represented as the deviant and pathological "other.""
When I first read the quote I thought to myself I never thought as gay people as invivible or silent, or others. It makes me wonder who really starts by pointin out someone as diffrent. How do we even know what the normal is, or wat should be the normal. It saddens me to think that some people stay silent just because fo their sexuality. When did it happen that people had to be classified by sexuality and not by the person they are.
2."(i.e., black, working class, female, homosexual, etc.) are disempowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic,criminal, lazy, lacking in intelligence, and in other ways 'abnormal'."
WHAT?! I cannot even believe people would write this or even believe it for that matter. I just got so mad after I read that. Not only because I am a female but really, just because of a persons race or sexuality they are dumb and lazy. I would love to know where these people come up with these ideas and how they even get out to the public without the snot beaten out of them. As a future teacher I hope to God I can teach the children I have to be open minded so they don't grow up to be one of these people who have ideas like this. Sometimes I wonder..
3. "The objective of classroom discourse is thus not so much to acheive consensus on on "truth" or "objective" depiction of reality, but rather to clarify diffrences and agreements, work toward coalition-building across diffrence when possible, and build relationships based on caring and equity."
This is our future job, this is what as furture teachers we need to strive to do. I read this quote over a couple of times and I thought to myself, I hope that I can really do this, I hope I'm up to the responsibility I hol as ateacher to shape and mold young people to become better then what I am and how everyone else is. I am really inspired to make changes to young lives.
Questions/Comments:
This was really hard to read for me, I don't know if it was the lanuage or what it was but it was the most difficult piece I've read in the class. I could sort of grasp Carlson's concepts but I mostly understood my quotes, and it was quite hard to even pick some quotes out. I think his writing style was more informative then relaxed so it wasn't as easy to get into. i really did enjoy the fact that we are talking abotu sexual identity though because it is going to be a factor in the classroom, ecspecially being a high school teacher as I'm trying to be. I cant wait for class to talk about it though!
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