What aspect of Education for All has your group concentrated on for this project? Use the comments section of this post to discuss your group's work, research and findings and your opinions about the topic(s) you've been studying.
Our group has been focusing on ism's and how they can prevent people from going to school. Our subcategories for the isms are, racism, sexism, class ism and religious discrimination. We read articles, analyzed the situations in communities that were experiencing these difficulties and then came up with a conclusion about what to do. I personally took up the topic of religious discrimination. In my research i discovered that some people have to deal with altered education because they face different treatment then normal people because of their religion. Some people are also not allowed in schools at all just because they are a different religion then the dictator in charge likes. Also some schools in America itself aren't allowed to do anything with religion because of complaints of people of other religion or parents not liking the ideas that the religion has.
In the 2020 project we have focused on the sub-category of how ISMs prevent children from acquiring an education. The ISMs we mainly discussed were classism, racism, religious discrimination and segregation, and sexism. Each of these, we discovered, has an effect on children getting an education. With articles, group discussions, magazines and more we have broadened our knowledge on how and why these ISMs exist, and how they are preventing youths from learning. I mainly focused on the topic of sexism, which is discrimination based on gender. Sexism mostly occurs against females in specific cultures, and would be hard to eliminate without the reconfiguring of the stature of women in these places. I am very strongly opposed to sexism and other ISMs that occur throughout the world, and it was good to be able to make a plan on what I could do to help solve it. Our group has been very resourceful. Correspondance between group members has been a very emphasized area in this project, and I am happy to say we have been in contact throughout this entire experience. Being able to rely on responsible partners has been a highlight in this project for me.
During the 20/20 project our group has been focusing on isms and how they can prevent people from going to school and getting an education. The isms my group focused on were sexism, classism, racism, and religious discrimination. To research these problems we read articles about the ism in different countries and decided on how to solve these problems. For this project I was to research racism preventing people from getting educations. In parts of the world, children of racial subgroups are getting a different or lesser education then the racial majority or no education at all.
JoshK said... Our group picked the topic of prevention or fear to go to school due to "isms". Our isms include racism, sexism, classism, and religious discrimination. Discrimination due solely to these categories exists in every country in the world and in my opinion threatens the very existance of such social institutions as education. I focused mainly on classism. Classism is discrimination due to power, economic status or social class. The disparity in economic status, I have found is linked directly to the inequality of education among the social classes. Therefore, to create an just society, equal education is the first step. Inequalities in education appear in different ways around the world. For instance, according to the article I found, in India there is a social group named the Dalits. They have access to the very worst of all facilities including, but not limited to, education. As a result, their culture thrives on discrimination and injustice. These problems are very difficult to solve because they are ingrained in the culture. In order to end discrimination in education due to social class, one would be forced to rebuild the social caste system. This on it's own would be very difficult not to mention acquiring the resources to complete such a task. The simplest solution would be to force schools to be equal in quality and allow everybody free, equal access.
JoshK said... I completely agree with Ava. One way to change sexism would be to rework women's stature in society. I also feel, and I am sure Ava does too, that this would be very difficult. I disagree however with her idea that this is the only way to solve this problem (she did not state this but it was the only way she listed so I assume that she thinks it is the only way to truly solve this problem). People often do what the law states they should. Fear of getting placed under punishment of the law is a very big incentive. To give women access to education that is equal to the education offered to men, one would simply have to persuade the lawmakers to change the rules. If they banned educational discrimination, it would cease or at least lessen.
I think Theron has done a really good job tackling the problem of religious discrimination. I would also like to add how difficult this ISM is. Because you can't change the religios affiliation of a country or a community, and sometimes the discrimination runs deep in the government and religion. To solve religious discrimination, you would have to integrate new community values into cultures that would accept people of all religions. Also religious classes would have to be established in schools so that children could learn about different religions, and be open to their similarities. What worries me about ending religious discrimination is that the schools that would have to be established would probably be the victims of terrorism and hate-crimes by people who are against the idea of change in their cultures. Extra security would have to be provided, and the problem is that funds in poorer countries could not cover the costs of additional security measures.
I agree with Josh that the problem of classism in education would be hard to solve and so would the problems of our other isms in education. Breaking down the classism that prevents people of a lower social class from getting a good quality education is extremely difficult. As Josh discusses, to really break down the class differences in access to education it will be necessary to change or eliminate the social caste systems which have been in place for hundreds of years in most countries. Josh also said that the simplest way to solve this problem would be to just force schools to be of equal quality and allow everybody equal access to all schools. While this would seem to be the simplest solution to classism in education and to all isms in education it does not seem very practical. Making all schools equal in quality and entirely open in access to people of every social class would inevitably cause conflict between existing class groups – especially because those who have benefited from being at the top of the class system will perceive that they are losing the benefits of that position.
I think that max covered racism to his fullest extent in our powerpoint. I would like to add that racism is a very common discrimination and has been around for a very long time and will be very hard to solve. Racism has been around so long that it has even become part of many cultures and people would have a very hard time trying to stop the habit. Many countries are trying to solve it but it seems like an incurable ailment because there is so much hatred towards different races just because they aren't the same as themselves.
JoshK said... Our group picked the topic of prevention or fear to go to school due to "isms". Our isms include racism, sexism, classicism, and religious discrimination. Discrimination due solely to these categories exists in every country in the world and in my opinion threatens the very existence of such social institutions as education. I focused mainly on classicism. Classicism is discrimination due to power, economic status or social class. The disparity in economic status, I have found is linked directly to the inequality of education among the social classes. Therefore, to create a just society, equal education is the first step. Inequalities in education appear in different ways around the world. For instance, according to the article I found, in India there is a social group named the Dalits. They have access to the very worst of all facilities including, but not limited to, education. As a result, their culture thrives on discrimination and injustice. These problems are very difficult to solve because they are ingrained in the culture. In order to end discrimination in education due to social class, one would be forced to rebuild the social caste system. This on its own would be very difficult not to mention acquiring the resources to complete such a task. The simplest solution would be to force schools to be equal in quality and allow everybody free, equal access.
JoshK said... I completely agree with Ava. One way to change sexism would be to rework women's stature in society. I also feel, and I am sure Ava does too, that this would be very difficult. I disagree however with her idea that this is the only way to solve this problem (she did not state this but it was the only way she listed so I assume that she thinks it is the only way to truly solve this problem). People often do what the law states they should. Fear of getting placed under punishment of the law is a very big incentive. To give women access to education that is equal to the education offered to men, one would simply have to persuade the lawmakers to change the rules. If they banned educational discrimination, it would cease or at least lessen.
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Our group has been focusing on ism's and how they can prevent people from going to school. Our subcategories for the isms are, racism, sexism, class ism and religious discrimination. We read articles, analyzed the situations in communities that were experiencing these difficulties and then came up with a conclusion about what to do. I personally took up the topic of religious discrimination. In my research i discovered that some people have to deal with altered education because they face different treatment then normal people because of their religion. Some people are also not allowed in schools at all just because they are a different religion then the dictator in charge likes. Also some schools in America itself aren't allowed to do anything with religion because of complaints of people of other religion or parents not liking the ideas that the religion has.
In the 2020 project we have focused on the sub-category of how ISMs prevent children from acquiring an education. The ISMs we mainly discussed were classism, racism, religious discrimination and segregation, and sexism. Each of these, we discovered, has an effect on children getting an education. With articles, group discussions, magazines and more we have broadened our knowledge on how and why these ISMs exist, and how they are preventing youths from learning. I mainly focused on the topic of sexism, which is discrimination based on gender. Sexism mostly occurs against females in specific cultures, and would be hard to eliminate without the reconfiguring of the stature of women in these places. I am very strongly opposed to sexism and other ISMs that occur throughout the world, and it was good to be able to make a plan on what I could do to help solve it. Our group has been very resourceful.
Correspondance between group members has been a very emphasized area in this project, and I am happy to say we have been in contact throughout this entire experience. Being able to rely on responsible partners has been a highlight in this project for me.
During the 20/20 project our group has been focusing on isms and how they can prevent people from going to school and getting an education. The isms my group focused on were sexism, classism, racism, and religious discrimination. To research these problems we read articles about the ism in different countries and decided on how to solve these problems. For this project I was to research racism preventing people from getting educations. In parts of the world, children of racial subgroups are getting a different or lesser education then the racial majority or no education at all.
JoshK said...
Our group picked the topic of prevention or fear to go to school due to "isms". Our isms include racism, sexism, classism, and religious discrimination. Discrimination due solely to these categories exists in every country in the world and in my opinion threatens the very existance of such social institutions as education.
I focused mainly on classism. Classism is discrimination due to power, economic status or social class. The disparity in economic status, I have found is linked directly to the inequality of education among the social classes. Therefore, to create an just society, equal education is the first step. Inequalities in education appear in different ways around the world. For instance, according to the article I found, in India there is a social group named the Dalits. They have access to the very worst of all facilities including, but not limited to, education. As a result, their culture thrives on discrimination and injustice.
These problems are very difficult to solve because they are ingrained in the culture. In order to end discrimination in education due to social class, one would be forced to rebuild the social caste system. This on it's own would be very difficult not to mention acquiring the resources to complete such a task. The simplest solution would be to force schools to be equal in quality and allow everybody free, equal access.
My response to AvaL's blog...
JoshK said...
I completely agree with Ava. One way to change sexism would be to rework women's stature in society. I also feel, and I am sure Ava does too, that this would be very difficult.
I disagree however with her idea that this is the only way to solve this problem (she did not state this but it was the only way she listed so I assume that she thinks it is the only way to truly solve this problem). People often do what the law states they should. Fear of getting placed under punishment of the law is a very big incentive. To give women access to education that is equal to the education offered to men, one would simply have to persuade the lawmakers to change the rules. If they banned educational discrimination, it would cease or at least lessen.
My response to Theron's Comment:
I think Theron has done a really good job tackling the problem of religious discrimination. I would also like to add how difficult this ISM is. Because you can't change the religios affiliation of a country or a community, and sometimes the discrimination runs deep in the government and religion. To solve religious discrimination, you would have to integrate new community values into cultures that would accept people of all religions. Also religious classes would have to be established in schools so that children could learn about different religions, and be open to their similarities. What worries me about ending religious discrimination is that the schools that would have to be established would probably be the victims of terrorism and hate-crimes by people who are against the idea of change in their cultures. Extra security would have to be provided, and the problem is that funds in poorer countries could not cover the costs of additional security measures.
Comment on josh’s post
I agree with Josh that the problem of classism in education would be hard to solve and so would the problems of our other isms in education. Breaking down the classism that prevents people of a lower social class from getting a good quality education is extremely difficult. As Josh discusses, to really break down the class differences in access to education it will be necessary to change or eliminate the social caste systems which have been in place for hundreds of years in most countries. Josh also said that the simplest way to solve this problem would be to just force schools to be of equal quality and allow everybody equal access to all schools. While this would seem to be the simplest solution to classism in education and to all isms in education it does not seem very practical. Making all schools equal in quality and entirely open in access to people of every social class would inevitably cause conflict between existing class groups – especially because those who have benefited from being at the top of the class system will perceive that they are losing the benefits of that position.
I think that max covered racism to his fullest extent in our powerpoint. I would like to add that racism is a very common discrimination and has been around for a very long time and will be very hard to solve. Racism has been around so long that it has even become part of many cultures and people would have a very hard time trying to stop the habit. Many countries are trying to solve it but it seems like an incurable ailment because there is so much hatred towards different races just because they aren't the same as themselves.
JoshK said...
Our group picked the topic of prevention or fear to go to school due to "isms". Our isms include racism, sexism, classicism, and religious discrimination. Discrimination due solely to these categories exists in every country in the world and in my opinion threatens the very existence of such social institutions as education.
I focused mainly on classicism. Classicism is discrimination due to power, economic status or social class. The disparity in economic status, I have found is linked directly to the inequality of education among the social classes. Therefore, to create a just society, equal education is the first step. Inequalities in education appear in different ways around the world. For instance, according to the article I found, in India there is a social group named the Dalits. They have access to the very worst of all facilities including, but not limited to, education. As a result, their culture thrives on discrimination and injustice.
These problems are very difficult to solve because they are ingrained in the culture. In order to end discrimination in education due to social class, one would be forced to rebuild the social caste system. This on its own would be very difficult not to mention acquiring the resources to complete such a task. The simplest solution would be to force schools to be equal in quality and allow everybody free, equal access.
My response to AvaL's blog...
JoshK said...
I completely agree with Ava. One way to change sexism would be to rework women's stature in society. I also feel, and I am sure Ava does too, that this would be very difficult.
I disagree however with her idea that this is the only way to solve this problem (she did not state this but it was the only way she listed so I assume that she thinks it is the only way to truly solve this problem). People often do what the law states they should. Fear of getting placed under punishment of the law is a very big incentive. To give women access to education that is equal to the education offered to men, one would simply have to persuade the lawmakers to change the rules. If they banned educational discrimination, it would cease or at least lessen.
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