Discrimination: Reflection and Interview
Watch the Frontline program online. Frontline: A Class Divided http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/
A Class Divided explores the nature of prejudice. Third grade teacher Jane Elliott deliberately created a classroom situation to teach her students how it feels to be on the receiving end of discrimination. This is an encore presentation of the classic documentary on third-grade teacher Jane Elliott’s blue eyes/brown eyes exercise originally conducted in the days following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. This classic classroom experiment conducted in the late 1960s in a small Midwestern town demonstrates how quickly and easily schoolchildren can internalize prejudice and discriminate. Years later these children discuss the valuable lessons they learned from this experiment. Elliott employs this same teaching strategy with a group of adults in the workplace and discusses their reactions.
This assignment is designed to allow you to synthesize what you have been learning about the various dimensions of diversity and the necessity of treating everyone in an inclusive sensitive and respectful manner.
Discrimination Paper Part I: Interpersonal Reflection (5 pages)
After viewing the video consider the following questions and write your response. Your response should be 5 pages and should address each question thoroughly reflecting an accurate representation of what you have learned in this course. Demonstrate scholarship by utilizing supporting resources to justify your ideas and responses:
Discrimination Paper Part II: Personal Interview (3 pages)
For Part II of this assignment you will have a conversation with someone who you feel may have faced discrimination. Examples include someone with a disability an older American someone who is a sexual minority or someone who lives in a multicultural family. After choosing an individual to interview explain to this individual what you have seen in the Class Divided program. Invite them to watch the program or parts of the program with you. After watching or discussing the program pose the following questions to the individual. Be sure to explain the reason for your questions and why you have selected them to participate in the interview:
Following your refection (Part I listed above) add 3 pages to your paper which addresses the following:
Final assignment consisting of both Part I and II should be approximately 8-9 pages.Not including Title page and Reference page; Total page count should be 10 – 11 pagesBe sure to address each topic listed above and as appropriate cite the online course the textbook and other credible sources to substantiate the points you are making. For example when discussing an example of how diversity may be hidden or invisible cite sources which you have referenced to substantiate the points you are making.
NEED 5 References
Must use as one of references: