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Question ~ "Never judge a book by its cover." This is something we have all heard a million times yet we all are guilty of it. As educators how do we instill this in our students? Is this even a possible or realistic goal? I mean is this just a natural act?
ReplyDeleteQuote ~ "Only when people understand cultural differences and practice cultural relativism is it likely that conflicts between people from different cultures can be avoided or resolved." (page 60).
Fact ~ "Prejudice and negative stereotypes lead to negative assumptions, which results in a negative judgement of another person." (page 58)
Fact: Teaching is not just talking; it involves more than words, as is true of all communication.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Wrongdoing can only be avoided if those who are not wronged feel the same indignation at it as those who are." (pg. 68)
Question: How can we communicate in a way that our messages are clear to everyone? Is it possible to cover every ethnicity and culture?
In response to Brittany's question I feel that we as educators should lead by example and discuss this issue with our students, however I see what you mean about the complexity of the task. It seems like this is often programmed into us as we learn from our society and those around us.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: On page 55 the author states that communication is a good thing and should be encouraged, however we must know when additional communication is not necessary. How do we balance the two with our students? Where do you make the line in the communication?
Quote: "Think like an active person; act like a thoughtful person.~Henri Bergson
Fact: Freire defined praxis as taking action to address injustice and then reflecting on the effectiveness of the actions taken as the person or group continues their activities.(pg. 55)
Question: On page 64 it says "Men perceive women as devious and cunning, and women perceive men as arrogant and intimidating." How do we help students to not make these same judgments when they get older?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Misunderstandings and inertia cause perhaps more to go wrong in this world than slyness and evil intent."
Fact: Knowing the influence on communication style of such factors as gender or culture provides a basis to prevent misunderstandings.
In response to Brittany's question I think that by helping our students learn about people from other cultures and backgrounds we can increase their knowledge about diversity. People often judge others that they don't understand or appear different. By showing our students that everyone has similarities and differences, hopefully we can help them to be accepting and to not make judgments on others.
ReplyDelete-Question- If gender and culture affect communication can we ever really solve communication problems?
ReplyDelete-Quote- ..."What we have here is a failure to communicate." (page 51)
-Fact- In a report it was found that we only are awake 70% of the time when we interact with others.
In response to Brittany I think we just need to educate our children about all kinds of people without making people of certain cultures or ethnicity seem like they are all the same. I think we can only try to teach children that everyone is an individual and we can't judge someone by what they look like.
ReplyDeleteClass,
ReplyDeleteDo not forget to go back to Ch. 1 and 2 and see my comments and respond to some of those. I want to make sure you are reading those.
We must poke holes in stereotypes and prejudice. That is easy to do! It is harder for people to take those (the holes) in though. It is much easier for people to believe the extreme generalizations and stereotypes. Also, cultures are not socially just, and policies and laws are not all just either. A lot of that is played out at the individual level with an individual's comments and actions. Do we want more Columbine and Jena 6's? I think not. If you do not know about these educational injustices, look those up on-line. We will continue to have these though unless we work on having socially just classrooms and deal with the "isms" and injustices! Teachers usually do not want to deal with the conflicts and injustices, but you have to do so! Remember you are a "teacher leader" whether you want to be or not because students see you as one. They want justice. You can either reify the injustices in your class or be just. Which will you do and be?
ReplyDeleteIn response to Dr. Hendrix's comment about us being teacher leaders I could not agree more! I think if teachers at schools such as Columbine would have dealt with the "ism" and "injustices" as mentioned these events may not have occured.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Is skilled disagreement the best way for negotions? Would it be effective with children?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The question should never be who is right, but what is right?"-Glenn Gardiner
Fact: According to Ekman, expressions of contempt and disgust are often used to indicate hatred of another.
In response to Dr. Hendrix post, I think any person going into education and wanting to be a teacher should be prepared for dealing with injustice's and conflicts. If we had more teachers who cared enough to deal with this then maybe we could start to repair our classrooms. Shouldn't compassion be an important characteristic in teachers?
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Despite a person's culture, gender, or race, don't all people appreciate simple, plain, honest communication when the message is delivered with common courtesy, respect, and a smile? Isn't this even true when we communicate with strangers we are all eventually forced to interact with at some time in our lives such as sales clerks, doctors, waiter's or waitresses, even our children's educators or daycare providers?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The question should never be who is right, but what is right?" Glen Gardiner (page 67)
Fact: Cultural awareness can be something that helps most individuals from one culture to avoid conflict with those of another culture when attempting to communicate.
In response to several comments made so far about prejudging and injustices; The biggest injustice is to prejudge. However it has been a proven fact that this is a typical behavior for most all of mankind. We as people only know what we know as individuals. Our backgrounds and cultural environments most always dictate first impressions about others. One thing I found successful in my sales career was to never prejudge anybody if at all possible because the person you might see as a waste of your time could be your best customer and even a friend. Some students we might see as a lost cause could be the next community leader, scientist, or any other positive influence to society.
In response to Dr. Hendrix and labels. I have mixed feelings about giving students a label, even if they could benefit from an IEP. If they are labeled incorrectly they may have to carry this label for years. A label could keep them from their fullest potential. Labels need to be used very carefully.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kensey. We need to show our students that people from different cultures can be different, but that differences are a good thing. Integrating the study of different cultures into our daily lessons could help with this.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Heath found that low-income white parents taught their children language by reading storybooks with a moral for each tale. Parental communication style was didactic and authoritarian. When these children entered elementary school they had problem participating in critical thinking and creativity activities. Why do you think this is?
ReplyDeleteFact: Communication is more than a verbal process.
Quote: “ The communication process is grounded in and individuals attudtues toward people or groups. All people develop a general attitude about ther interactions with others.”
In Response to kensey’s question; I believe communication problems can be solved between some people who are taught to communicate correctly by listening and respecting others opinions. However, there is no way that all the communication problems in the world would ever be solved because of people’s personal biases, stereotypes, and prejudices.
Fact:Traditionally, Americans have encouraged boys to be aggrssive and girls to be nice; this has been documented in studies of children's play activities.
ReplyDeleteQuestion:In relation to my fact, how are our society's not "ok" with the way genders can communicate outside of their role?s What I mean by that is the beginning of that topic on page 63 where when for example when females out outside of their traditional roles they're are called words like "b***h" and men are called "sissys"?
Quote:"One man's treasure is another person's junk." pg. 67
I like this saying becuase it allows for tolerance and understand of others feelings, values, etc. We must remember just becuase something's not mportant to us, it may be very valuable to someone else.
I response to Brooke's Question: Is skilled disagreement the best way for negotions? Would it be effective with children?
I think this would be a positive way to teach conflict resolution, but I also think it wouldn't work for all student's depending on their backgrounds and homelife. I also think it'd have to begun being taught at a certain age and maturaty level. But the 5 skills described would definately help all parties be respected and heard.
Question: If students in our classroom have a certain attitude towards another student because of their parents have taught them that way, how do we handle that? What if they say, "Well my mom said..."
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The question should never be who is right, but what is right?"
Interesting Informative Fact: Sometimes actions speak louder than words, so it is important that we are aware of our body language and our natural human ability.
Good points here! You must know your students well to know which strategy will work the best for them and with them. Relationship building is key. Also, I will give you some information on conflict management when we come together in the first in-class meeting. People on Purpose have some good tips and a good strategy here for dealing with angry people. I will go over those.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Kensey's fact, I think it is important to teach students effective communication skills. It is important to actually listen and learn instead of jumping to conclusions and judgements. The attitude of a person often effects their communication skills with others.
ReplyDeleteDo not forget to respond to your peers' here and to me too.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: How does gender influence communication styles?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Think like an active person: act like a thoughtful person." Henri Bergson
Fact: Hecht and DeVito define nonverbal communication as "all the essages other than words that people exchange."
In response to Dr. Hendrix's statement you can either reify injustices in your classroom or just let them be. Ignoring seems to be the easy way out but injustice issues need to be addressed with a serious attitude and not tolorated in the classroom or outside of the classroom. I think about my preschool group and what I call "tattle-telling" or "name calling", when should you intervene,what do you ignore and what do you address at this age? We use many different techniques to deal with this but I have not found one that has connected with this age group.
ReplyDeleteHow does nonverbal communication lead to conflict. Do we as humans always realize when we give nonverbal communication?
ReplyDelete"Think like an active person;act like a thoughtful person." Hnri Bergson
Communication occcurs because one person wants or needs to know what the other is thinking about or doing.
In response to Kristen society has made it for boys to be aggresive and girls to be nice. I see now days how mean girls can be; I think girls may imitate "being nice" in front of authority but towards peers they can be very mean and hateful. Sayings we use and names we use to categorize children, does this effect them throughout their life? The saying "If I had a boy I would want them to act like 100% boy." That saying always gets me...what is 100% boy? Do you have to be tough and fight to be 100% boy? Or she is a "tom girl" and a "prissy princess". We use these generalizations to categorize children but when we do this are we giving them a complex on how they think they should act? Does this enclose their walls of freedom to be who they really are? These thoughts come to mind as I think of the Preschool setting I work in and names I hear parents use to describe their children.
ReplyDeleteFact: Individual attitudes can be influenced by a specific group such as race or ethnicity. People tend to stick to their own group instead of trying to interact with another. This results in not understanding one another, and the different cultures.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Misunderstanding and inertia cause perhaps more to go wrong in this world than slyness and evil intent." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Question: Where do men and women begin to learn how to express themselves in different ways? Is it from observing their parents. This chapter talked about women and men expressing their oppinions and the misunderstandings that occur when this happens. Men express themselves bluntly, while women approach the situation more sensitive and intimate.
In response to Sarah's question, I think that is kind of hitting on my question as well. Different genders often misunderstand one another because of the ways they were taught growing up. Their communication styles differ from one another. I think that men and women express themselves differently because of our culture and the way society shows men acting "tough" compared to women acting more vulnerable and sensitive.
Question: Adults have mastered the art of the cold shoulder. How do we as teachers show our children that actions speak louder than words?
ReplyDeleteQuote:“ What we have here is a failure to communi-cate.” (Cool Hand Luke is my favorite movie, and makes a really good point.)
Fact: Spitzberg( 1990) reported that we interact with other people 70% of the time we are awake.
In response to Brittany's question: I think the most important thing is to show our students that we don't "judge a book by its cover." Children are a lot more preceptive than we give them credit for, and by showing them that we are accepting of all people, no matter what we may have heard - we are opening the door for them to learn an important lesson. I truly believe the best (and only) way to teach values is by example.
I would also like to respond to Katie's question also: I don't know if you have children, but from experience boys and girls are gentically different - and those difference appear as soon as personality begins to develop. Granted, I do believe some facets of our personality are definitely enhanced do to our environments, but I believe a girl and a boy left in the wilderness alone from birth would still display what we believe to be sterotypical male and female behavior. Part of this behavior is the we communicate. It is my opinion, but I believe women are better communicators. Obviously there are exceptions to the rule.
In response to Holly's question...
ReplyDeleteThat is a tough one. You can not tell the student that their parent is wrong or not to listen to them however you do have to encourage the child to make their own decisions and judgements.
Question...
ReplyDeleteHow can communication style differences have a negative impact on students of the oposite sex of the teacher?
Quote...
ReplyDeleteThe meanings of words are not in the words; they are in us. S.I Hayakawa
Fact...
ReplyDeleteCommunication has the potential to solve problems, however is also has the potential to create problems.
Response to Heidi I work in special ed and need some lables to help our students but should be for involved staff only. One of our teachers (science) didnt read any files of children until she had taught for 2 weeks so she could make her connection with her students. Unless they needed modificalions in class and she came to Special ed and asked us just to give her that info on any of her students.
ReplyDeleteQuote the question should never be who is right but what is right. Glenn Gardiner (contempary)
ReplyDeleteFact A Cirrcular Model of Communication
1 attitude toward people or groups
2 Observations and assumptions
3 Conclusions and judgements
4 Verbal and non verbal actions
Question the book consentrates on white vs other races but isnt there a lot of direspect between other races also I saw a lot when I lived in the inner city
In response to Dr. Hendrix,
ReplyDeleteAs teacher leaders I agree that we need to face these injustices head on and deal with them before they become a problem. However, sometimes it is hard to break down that wall between teacher and friend to students. Sometimes they may not want to open up to teachers because they don't trust authority figures. What can we do as teachers to break down these walls. I know you, Dr. Hendrix, make students feel welcome with questions, so I'm sure you will have some good suggestions. Also, what kind of risks are involved with becoming more of a friend to a student, rather than a teacher, and how can we deal with these situations?