Food is Not for Play
This article gave me a new view on how we play with food. It never called to my attention that playing with food in a classroom can hurt someone, especially a little child. As a child in kindergarden, my classroom always played with blue rice and pinto beans. However I believe you can still use food for learning in a art class; in fact, you can describe the culinary arts to young students and show how they use different colors and textures to make a Yummy look. It can be cross lesson plan with schools that have some type of home Ec course. It just gives students a view that art can be associated outside of a typical paint, pencil, and clay class.
I Won't Learn from You!
I like that the instructor analyzes that racism is still a big problem, but I feel that there is an issue with this article. He observes this classroom taught by a white instructor filled with hispanic students and ends up instructing the white instructors class. He observes that the text is a racist book and explains it to the students that he notices their problem. I agree that the text is racist, but this article does not have a closure to this schools issue. I would like to see how the students and the original instructor discuss this issue whether they resolved it or not. I get that issues like this wont be solved in a day, but I just wanted to hear a little more from that article.
Reyna,
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point, but it seems a running theme with many of the articles. There are discussions of experiences without an answer to the problem. I think this might be due to the difficult issues being dealt with. I would really like to discuss this in class tomorrow.