Olan
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Post by Olan on Jun 24, 2019 12:19:50 GMT
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Post by pierkiss on Jun 24, 2019 14:24:15 GMT
Last month she received her PhD in higher education leadership from Cardinal Stritch University in Wisconsin following her dissertation, "Black names in white classrooms- teacher behaviours and student perceptions".
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Her dissertation sounds fascinating. I want to read it, and I want to know how it’s findings can be used to make changes in the schools (and the world).
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Post by SockMonkey on Jun 24, 2019 16:07:39 GMT
I'd like to read her dissertation as well!
I love this quote: "We're human, when we first hear a name, we form opinions, and judgements. It's the next thing that one does that makes a difference."
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Post by monklady123 on Jun 24, 2019 16:17:55 GMT
Very interesting. I'm not sure I'd have the courage to name my child "Marijuana" though.  I also like the quote where she said it's what we do next that counts... As a substitute teacher I can tell you that I've seen it all. lol. I would like to think that I don't make judgments about the child though, based just on the name. My biggest problems are how to pronounce them. I try to write them down phonetically right on my lesson plan so I can carry it around with me while I'm in that class. There are always problems though with some... such as the number of kids named "Angel" (my school has a large Hispanic population)... and some want it pronounced "Ahn-hell" and others want it "An-gel" and I'll be darned if I can keep it straight in my head which kids want it which way. oy. |
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Post by SockMonkey on Jun 24, 2019 16:24:09 GMT
When I got my first teaching job, it was in a school where 98% of the students were Black/African-American. (The teaching staff looked much whiter, but that's a conversation for another time). I had SO much unlearning and relearning to do, and names were part of that. I encountered many names I was unfamiliar with; I grew up surrounded by mostly white folks, with a mostly white circle of friends and coworkers. The patience those kids had for me was a blessing, and a gift.
I did a lot of judging. Not to kids' faces, but in my head. I needed to learn the reasons why people choose the names they do, and that common "white" names shouldn't be the default or accepted while other names are not. I am still working on it!
A thing I am more conscious about doing now is learning to pronounce people's names properly and to not force them to use nicknames that are more comfortable for me. This just happened in Costa Rica. I met a woman from Venezuela named Yanedis who worked for our hotel, but she said that the hotel staff just called her Sally. I asked, "Do you like that name? Do you want to be called Sally?" She said, "Not really!" So I made sure to get the correct pronunciation and called her Yanedis!
It's part of accepting folks as the human beings they are to call them by the names (and pronouns) they prefer.
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Post by Olan on Jun 25, 2019 11:21:38 GMT
Last month she received her PhD in higher education leadership from Cardinal Stritch University in Wisconsin following her dissertation, "Black names in white classrooms- teacher behaviours and student perceptions". ———— Her dissertation sounds fascinating. I want to read it, and I want to know how it’s findings can be used to make changes in the schools (and the world). Black Twitter recently trended with funny dissertation names to “unpack” the black experience and while many of them were hilarious you could see in the comments where people then began claiming their titles and posting links. I read about a dozen dissertations on vacation but ones in the Educational Leadership space were the most interesting reads. |
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Post by jubejubes on Jun 25, 2019 14:17:47 GMT
When I got my first teaching job, it was in a school where 98% of the students were Black/African-American. (The teaching staff looked much whiter, but that's a conversation for another time). I had SO much unlearning and relearning to do, and names were part of that. I encountered many names I was unfamiliar with; I grew up surrounded by mostly white folks, with a mostly white circle of friends and coworkers. The patience those kids had for me was a blessing, and a gift. I did a lot of judging. Not to kids' faces, but in my head. I needed to learn the reasons why people choose the names they do, and that common "white" names shouldn't be the default or accepted while other names are not. I am still working on it! A thing I am more conscious about doing now is learning to pronounce people's names properly and to not force them to use nicknames that are more comfortable for me. This just happened in Costa Rica. I met a woman from Venezuela named Yanedis who worked for our hotel, but she said that the hotel staff just called her Sally. I asked, "Do you like that name? Do you want to be called Sally?" She said, "Not really!" So I made sure to get the correct pronunciation and called her Yanedis! It's part of accepting folks as the human beings they are to call them by the names (and pronouns) they prefer. I live in an area where there are a lot of Asian (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) students. Most, if not all of them choose an English sounding first name because it is something that they were told to do. This started happening many years ago and I suppose, through word of mouth, that this is why this "English nick-name" still continues. There is a large university here as well as a very large Community College. Some of the students even go to a private high school in Canada, so that they can learn English better and know the high school curriculum, integrate into the community and learn how to live in Canada. |
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