Question 1: How can I, as a white teacher, approach the concept of systematic white privilege in my classroom, when I don't understand it fully myself?
Answer 1: As a teacher, I need to step outside myself, and look at systematic white privilege as if I'm not white. I can look at textbooks and other elements in my classroom and create discussion with my students.
Question 2: How can we change our education system so that it doesn't perpetuate the idea of white privilege?
Answer 2: All teachers, especially those who are white, should be required to take a class that emphasizes how the idea of white privilege is apparent everywhere, and what we as educators can do to help eliminate the hypocrisy in the classroom. I'm sure that many teachers don't even know it exists.
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Hi Allison
You write very well, and have made important connections with the ideas that Frideres was putting forward. I would liked to have seen you expand a little more on the meaning and implications of what he was speaking about. I like your idea of multiculturalism being a mandatory part of teacher education, I do think it could help teachers develop awareness of the ways power can operate when we are not even conscious of its influence.
Lisa
Good for people to know.
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