you must all be so ablaze
So I have been reading a lot about critical theory in education for one of my classes and learning about how the school system, as a vehicle of cultural reproduction, perpetuates the current power structure in which whites are at the top with privileges that keep them at the top and other races are silenced and disempowered, unable to chance their status in life because of the varied and complex dynamics at work in society.
Once you have wealth, it's easier to accumulate more. But what about if there is a gap in wealth and your ancestors over the past two hundred years have not had wealth? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/18gates.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The school system, which claims that all children can succeed, prevents minority children from succeeding by keeping in place systems such as tracking, by stereotyping children, by silencing their voices and barring from the classroom knowledge that relates to their home lives and prior knowledge of how the world works.
How can we fix this???
http://www.timwise.org
White privilege must be acknowledged and given up.
http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org
We must rehearse for the revolution!
Once you have wealth, it's easier to accumulate more. But what about if there is a gap in wealth and your ancestors over the past two hundred years have not had wealth? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/18gates.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The school system, which claims that all children can succeed, prevents minority children from succeeding by keeping in place systems such as tracking, by stereotyping children, by silencing their voices and barring from the classroom knowledge that relates to their home lives and prior knowledge of how the world works.
How can we fix this???
http://www.timwise.org
White privilege must be acknowledged and given up.
http://www.theatreoftheoppressed.org
We must rehearse for the revolution!