Aproximately 40 years ago Jane Elliot, a third grade teacher, made an experiment for teaching her students what racism consist of. She divided her class in two groups; blue-eyed and brown eye children. The first day Mrs. Elliot treat really well blue-eyeds, making the other group feel discriminated. Next day she did the same but with the other group. Results reflected that discriminated kids worked with no motivation, took longer time doing their work, and had bad results, while the other ones work with more motivation. Also some kids used the eye color as an insult.
The teacher used eye colors for dividing the class, because first of all people in her room had not other kind of different physical characteristic as skin color, and second of all because eye color is physical characteristic not so visible and important, but at the same time that you can not change, taking into account that she was working with kids. This experiment was really usefull not only for looking at the result, but also because children learned a lot of why perjudice and discrimination are bad. It is important to clarify that perjudice and discrimination are not the same thing. Perjudiece is a pre-judment you make of something or someone just taking into account its physicall or most recognizable aspect, ignoring all the good things that can be beyond that. Discrimanition refers to noting and making big and bad the differences between someone or something. Making this kind of experimets is important for understanding human racist actions and for teaching children the bad things of racism. I found really interesting the fact that when kids were bad treated they believed they were stupid and nothing,just because of their eye color, and that was refected in their test results and academic development. Motivation is really important for having a pleasant life.
The teacher used eye colors for dividing the class, because first of all people in her room had not other kind of different physical characteristic as skin color, and second of all because eye color is physical characteristic not so visible and important, but at the same time that you can not change, taking into account that she was working with kids. This experiment was really usefull not only for looking at the result, but also because children learned a lot of why perjudice and discrimination are bad. It is important to clarify that perjudice and discrimination are not the same thing. Perjudiece is a pre-judment you make of something or someone just taking into account its physicall or most recognizable aspect, ignoring all the good things that can be beyond that. Discrimanition refers to noting and making big and bad the differences between someone or something. Making this kind of experimets is important for understanding human racist actions and for teaching children the bad things of racism. I found really interesting the fact that when kids were bad treated they believed they were stupid and nothing,just because of their eye color, and that was refected in their test results and academic development. Motivation is really important for having a pleasant life.
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