Education for Extinction-cirriculum conformity - 7 views

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  #2 nadia5sheikh on 25 Mar 13

   

  I like that you chose an article not just about American diversity, but also about global diversity. I think that is often overlooked in the understanding of 'diversity.' When I read this article I started making connections with the different versions of the American Dream that we have discussed in class. Current employers and companies encourage diversity and aim for tolerance as an ideal. This is much like the ideals of our Constitution, aiming for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," for all. However, both of these ideals prove fallible, because they are not implemented in education systems. Diversity is valued on paper yet insufficient action is taken to promote diversity amongst students, who are the future employees and citizens. The ideal "America" taught in schools is not the America that students actually learn to live in. While we've changed our efforts of Americanization since the early Native American boarding schools, we're still doing little to promote and truly teach diversity. Students, and their future adult-selves, will not learn this by the guidance of an "invisible hand," as Hirsch says, so it must be an included in curricula at all grade levels.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I like that you chose an article not just about American diversity, but also about global diversity. I think that is often overlooked in the understanding of 'diversity.' When I read this article I started making connections with the different versions of the American Dream that we have discussed in class. Current employers and companies encourage diversity and aim for tolerance as an ideal. This is much like the ideals of our Constitution, aiming for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," for all. However, both of these ideals prove fallible, because they are not implemented in education systems. Diversity is valued on paper yet insufficient action is taken to promote diversity amongst students, who are the future employees and citizens. The ideal "America" taught in schools is not the America that students actually learn to live in. While we've changed our efforts of Americanization since the early Native American boarding schools, we're still doing little to promote and truly teach diversity. Students, and their future adult-selves, will not learn this by the guidance of an "invisible hand," as Hirsch says, so it must be an included in curricula at all grade levels.</div>

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