Cultural Biases In Education

February 22, 2008 8:55 AM

To what extent should teachers incorporate their own biases into their teaching of youngish children? To what extent does using goofy picture of people do so?

Fine. Done. I am fine with my comment being deleted, but I think that there's an important point to make about what the OP is doing.

I have seen this kind of thing commonly used by teachers with questionable motives in order to teach things that they're not really supposed to be teaching. Like, I have to teach about this person, but I am going to ridicule him while doing so. Or, I want to teach something "between the lines."

While I'm not saying that the OP is doing this, how different is this from a lesson plan on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s infidelities? Or pictures of Bush drinking? There is absolutely this kind of abuse by teachers in this country, and I think that it's dangerous when we use it to turn education into indoctrination.

posted by iknowizbirfmark to MetaFilter-related at 8:55 AM (2 comments total)

The question so nice you posted it thrice. I think perhaps you need to relax.
posted by the dief at 8:58 AM on February 22, 2008

What the heck are you talking about?
posted by brain_drain at 9:00 AM on February 22, 2008