Critical Literacy
Historically people of
color have been excluded from my discipline.
My discipline is health and for many years they had statistics for white
people and not really for other cultures.
I had a teacher at college that excited my learning about diverse topics
and we had to all do a presentation on a health topic that was diverse. It was really interesting to see the topics
that all the students picked and presented.
I learned a lot that semester about a lot of different diverse topics
that are in the United States. I never
really had a teacher that excluded diverse people.
For my discipline I
intend to have statistics for all people.
For example if my lesson is on diabetes I would have statistics for diabetes
for all races. As a teacher I will not
exclude an ethnicity when I give lessons on health topics and I when I prepare
a lesson if a student needs me to prepare the lesson in a different language I
will. So for example if a student speaks
Spanish and is trying to learn English I would prepare my PowerPoints in English
and Spanish.
Hi Laura...thanks for your posting. One of the articles for this module defined critical literacy as providing multiple viewpoints on the same subject. Just brainstorming here, but for nutrition, you might show "common" meals in a Tongan family, one for a Hindu vegan family, and so forth. So you can provide students with multiple perspectives on what makes an average meal. Like you said, you can probably do this with a lot of different topics...for instance, you were talking about stress. You might share different kinds of stressors among people of different classes, genders, or geographic regions. Thanks again, and it was nice to meet you last night!
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