Bias and the Law relates to my goals as an educator because it will help me gain a better perspective on which people with disabilities and special education are viewed in society. It also helped me realize why people believe special education can be too costly, burdensome, and infective. It also taught me the biases towards people with disabilities still exists, and why it can be a civil rights issues. Cultural Attitudes relates to my goals as an educator because knowledge on a family cultural beliefs can help me work with students with disabilities and their families on an individualized education plan that best suits their needs. It also taught me that every culture views disabilities differently some view it positively others try to hide
This reaction paper is about Chapter 11 by Judith A. Myers-Walls and Larissa V. Frias. Chapter 11 was titled Family, School, and Community. My initial thought of reading the title of the chapter I was not interested in the topic. My lack of interest grew when I realized that the chapter was going to dissect relationships between families, schools, and communities. I believe the current status of what is occurring in America has influenced my feelings about the topic.
Barrett, D. E., & Katsiyannis, A. (2008). The Seattle decision on race and public schools: Implications for special education. TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 4(6) Retrieved from http://escholarship.bc.edu/education/tecplus/vol4/iss6/art6 In the article, The Seattle Decision on Race and Public Schools” Implications for Special Education by David Barrett and Antonis Katsiyannis the authors give information on why Special Education shouldn’t be used to segregate kids of different races. The purpose of this article was to provide past historical information to support how special education should be implicated.
Jerry Kang’s Ted Talk and his article “Implicit Bias in the Courtroom” link implicit and explicit bias to attitudes and behaviors. Implicit bias was the primary focus for both, and in his study he was able to measure implicit bases and how if effects behavior by using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). He argues that implicit bias seems to predict to some degree our attitudes and behavior towards other people. In his article, he explains two situation, criminal and civil employment, cases within a courtroom where bias leading up to sentencing, plea deals, hiring, and verdict are all impacted by the implicit bias of the judge and the jury. To begin his argument he demonstrates how police encounters, charging and plea deals, trials, and sentencing are all affected by implicit bias.
To answer Bertrand Russell's implied question, no person can write an interesting story about history without bias. When readers or people get excited about a story, there has to be a slight bias, positive or negative, when writing about true events to keep people questioning and responsive enough to continue reading. Some authors will have an obvious inclination toward characters to catch people's attention and see if the readers can recognize instances where a personal opinion is being used, which may inspire people to want to` pursue a story. An author's goal is to get the reader's attention and keep it; using bias is one way to do that. As seen in Jon Krakauer's story Into the Wild, there’s a positive bias toward protagonist Chris McCandless.
The articles “Machine Bias” by Julia Angwin, et al. and “Should Prison Sentences Be Based on Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?” by Anna Maria Barry-Jester, et al. and the short story “The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick share a common theme. Except that “The Minority Report” is a work of fiction, whereas “Machine Bias” and “Should Prison Sentences Be Based on Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?” are based on real life events.
By learning similar subjects, students will be able to learn about things like prejudice, persecution, apathy, and indifference.
It is all about proud about families and themselves, justice, the knowledge that when human being together can make difference, voice out the rights and each of the child have equal opportunity. As the world now is dominant by different culture families. Thus, implication for implementing anti-bias education is a must. Regarding to the discussion above, it is clear that early childhood educators need more training opportunities, anti-bias knowledge and skills that meet the needs of early childhood education for anti-bias education.
I believe that all children are individuals, unique in their abilities, from a wide diversity of backgrounds and cultures, and they also have the right to be treated with dignity and respect. Educators are observers and designers who have to observe children’s abilities, interests and learning styles for designing a curriculum that fulfill everyone’s needs. Observers also play an important role on noticing individual differences and offering help to children who have lower ability to improve
For this interviewing project, I am definitely going to have some biases that will affect my perception and behavior during the interview. Age difference is going to be a big bias that is going to interfere with my perception during the interview. Because Mr. Oklobzija is way older than me and has been working in this field since 1985, his information and jargon may not correlate with my generation and come across as very outdated to me. It will be hard for me to compare his information to my career path now. In order to overcome this bias, I could direct my questions to more recent subjects and events that happened throughout his career.
To resolve these relating to segregation and educational inequity, educators must face racism upfront. Educators have to confront their own, sometimes unmindful, racism, and then move toward integration that will lead to a better cure of racism or at least a prejudice reduction. Important aspects of a multicultural curriculum include critical thinking, emotional intelligence instruction, character, moral education, peace education, service learning, antiviolence education, and the comprehensive of education etc. Sandra Parks, a successful educator, believes that by adapting the curriculum and by addressing expressions of racism, schools can help students improve to by understanding and dealing with other people, of peoples color and cultural differences. She believes that teachers have to show respect towards their students, their families, and their students' cultural backgrounds.
Bias is such a prevalent part of today's society and it plays a massive role in forming opinions and making important decisions. However, when that bias applies to people and the color of their skin, it can become extremely detrimental to society and the lives of many. Born A Crime, an autobiography written by Trevor Noah, explores the effects of this ideology. Noah was born in South Africa during the time of apartheid, which is the physical separation of races on the basis that white people were superior and every race was inferior. Racial mixing was considered illegal and could lead to the child being taken away along with the incarceration of the parents.
Previous studies have shown its implication to the phenomenon of self-serving bias. Showing that cultural differences, degree of relationship, protection of individual’s self-esteem, role of individual, academic achievement, and expectancy are factors that is affected and can affect an individual’s behavior. However, in addressing the question on the explanations of why people display self-serving bias. Some researchers suggest that self-serving bias is driven by their motivation process or they are driven by the manner on how they make judgments (Anderson & Slusher, 1986; Tetlock & Levy, 1982).
Bias is prejudice about someone or something which has been created based on incomplete information. More often bias has a negative effect as it affects other people, our way of thinking that could be driven into stereotypes frame. Every day we face with a huge number of biases and some of us even do not know about the existence of them. If it gets to that point when something suffers from it, people need to overcome biases. There are a lot of examples of biases in our world.
It is the right of every child to receive a high quality education. The world is in need of a change and that can be done through education. Education serves to prepare children for the world and opens the door for a lot of options. There is a need of influential teachers who are willing to put in the time and the effort to ensure the success of all children of color. My purpose in becoming a teacher is to impact children who come from the same socio-economic background as me.
The social rights of the disabled persons having employment and other benefits should be part of their professional career. ‘Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is one of federal law to incorporate disabled person’s rights in the society. ADA outlaws the practices of the discrimination on the bases of disability’. ‘ADA encompasses not only physical disabilities, but also mental disabilities’. ‘The disabilities such as deafness, loss of sight, a cerebral infirmity, partially or fully missing limbs or mobility deficiencies necessitating the use of a wheelchair, autism, tumor, intellectual palsy, diabetes, human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), multiple sclerosis, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive syndrome, and schizophrenia, kleptomania, pedophilia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, and so on’.