danger of a single story


Readings for 10.31.18, cultural responsiveness

Growth Mindset for a More Peaceful Empathetic World

Link to Chimamanda Adichie’s TED talk, The Danger of a Single Story

Link to Corey Mitchell, Education Week/PBS News Hour, A teacher mispronouncing a student’s name can have a lasting impact

Take a look at the website, The Genderbread Person: https://www.genderbread.org/.

Read the Gender Revolution: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pdf/gender-revolution-guide.pdf

If you have time, check out Project Implicit. “Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition – thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.” Harvard University hosts the site, and you can take some of the tests, if you have time:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html