SOCIAL JUSTICE AND MULTICULTURALISM IN EDUCATION INVESTIGATION
Test Yourself for Hidden Bias
Do you have prejudice, stereotype or any implicit bias?
Have you discriminated someone in any way or for a reason?
Are you committed to change?
Implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions,behaviors, and decision in an unconscious manner.
Discrimination is a behavior that treats people unequally because of their group.
Prejudice is an opinion, prejudgment or attitude about a person or group.
Stereotype is an exaggerated belief, image or distorted truth about a person or group.Stereotypes can be positive or negative.
Boyd, N. (2015, September 9). Prejudice, Discrimination and Stereotype [Video file]. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V0x653HyLo
Identify Safe Classrooms and Schools
A safe classroom is a classroom where students feel safe, they can express their toughs, ideas. Also, students will be confident to take risks accepting the challenges of the teacher to try new things.
Caring Classroom Environments
*Teacher have to build an atmosphere of trust.
*Teachers have to establish clear and acceptable behavior.
*arrangements of the physical environment must be facilitate the movement of the teacher and the students during the day and the different activities.
Classroom Relationships
*support and encourage positive interactions with the teacher and with other students.
* model kindness, accept that sometimes you don't know things, be a mediator when problems arise and give them opportunity to think about possible solutions.
Cultivating Diversity as a Resource
*consequences and expectations are non-negotiable
*Meaningful and purposeful learning activities will be based on the student interest and their culture.
Their Culture will be an essential part of the curriculum
.Post the students work
Child-centered teaching
*Students have to feel safe to express their emotions, thoughts and ideas.
* Work in cooperative small groups
*They may have opportunities to solve problems on their own
*Student have to have different choices so they can feel that they can make their own decisions.
Countering Stereotype Threat
Tackling Negative Stereotypes in the Classroom and Schools.
Use Events and Activities to reduce the Power of Stereotypes
*Teach students to not make assumptions about others for their appearances.
Have Conversations About Negative Stereotypes
*Be open to start discussions (One example that I always use
is when a young child talk about that boys are not supposed to wear the color pink or purple).
Address Negative Stereotypes in the Moment
*define stereotype
*teach the students to learn and accept others cultures with their values and beliefs.
Reflect on Ourselves
*What can I do to improve and avoid negative stereotypes?
Any stereotypes such for ethnicity, gender or age can affect negatively the individuals.
There is a stereotype that black an Latino are less intelligent than white and Asian students.
Low income students are low performance students.
Teachers’ attitudes affect
how student does in school.
Tackling Implicit Bias
Several research experiments on Implicit bias
Capatosco, K. (2016, December 14). Implicit Bias in Education [Video file]. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZPHE1oPJo
Teachers’ values and beliefs affect unconsciously their attitude in how they see their students and what expects of them.
Jennifer Eberhardt has been conducted implicit bias research experiments with different population with the same results. People judge and profile others based on race and inequality (Tackling Implicit Bias, 2017).
There is an online Implicit Association Tests or IATs to
measure unconscious bias conducted by the Harvard University.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Culture and society had taught us to unconsciously categorize or stereotype individuals.
