The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies
A Research Review
By Christine E. Sleeter
While reading the article "The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies" by Sleeter. It made me realized how important it must be for teacher to focus and try to teach more about studies from different backgrounds as this involve a lot more participation from the students, because these will be topics that they would like to talk about and sometimes they might even share some experiences.
One connection I had with this article, was when I was in a day care for a few hours because I needed to do an assignment for my psychology class. The place is called El Bebe Day Care, where many of the children who attend speak Spanish. The first activity they did was saying the alphabet, they did it in English, the second time they did in Spanish and most of them were happy to do it, they even said it louder. There were also other children who spoke Portuguese, but despite that, they also got excited and said the letters, even though they did not pronounce them as they sound, they tried and had the same excitement as the other children who could say them well.
This shows the interest that children have learning new things, no matter what language it is, even if it is a little difficult for them, they always get excited and show enthusiasm. Articles like this also help to give ideas and not only to teachers but to other people who take care or live with children, to have activities where they are involved and can spend time learning. So this reminded me of Carlos, reding how he had the enthusiasm to learn and the take classes on Chicano studies, but we have to be realistic because his friend had a lot to do with it, because it was the friend who started talking to him about this.
That was a really interesting story from your physic class. It is very relevant to the material at hand and cements the points it was trying to make.
ReplyDeleteI had a similar experience when I was in a kindergarten class! Every morning they say the numbers of the month together in English and then they also do it in Spanish. Not only do the Spanish speaking children love when we do it in Spanish, but the English speaking students also love it because they think it’s so interesting to learn Spanish. it also is interesting for the Spanish speakers to learn how to say the numbers in English. It’s a win win situation! Thanks for sharing!
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