This reflection will take the form of a “double-entry journal” or “dialectical notebook”.
Choose and copy ten (10) salient quotes from three of the films (Schooling the World, Girl Rising, and Rise and Shine), and respond in your own words next to it. Be sure to use APA to properly cite each quote. You need not use the chart, if some other format is easier for you (eg. quotes in italics, response in bold, etc.). In your response, you may also connect and/or quote from the course readings (Isbsiter, for example).
Sentence starters:
“This reminds me of…” or “This relates to…”
“I think this represents…”
“The idea I’m getting is…”
“One question that this text addresses is…”
“I wonder why…”
“The big idea is…”
“I like/don’t like… because…”
“One big difference between this and … is…”
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RESPONSE
EXAMPLE #1: “One of the things that is most disturbing to me, at a level of justice and morality, is that you have an institution in place globally that is branding millions and millions of innocent people as failures” (Manish Jain, qtd in Marlens, Hurst, Grossan & Black, 2010).
The big idea here is that Western schooling often sells “false promises” (here echoing the argument in Isbister’s book, Promises Not Kept) because only a few students actually make it to the top-paying jobs in the city. Most end up working menial jobs, and some or many end up in worse living conditions (inner city slums) than where they came from (rural, agrarian villages), all the while labeling them as “failures”. This raised questions for me about the “failure” rate (or even the dropout rate) in our own “failing schools” here in the United States. Does schooling in the US similarly promote “false promises”? I wonder how similar/different this argument is from critics who claim that schools merely reproduce inequality?
EXAMPLE #2: “One of the myths prevalent about third world people is that they are unchanging, that their societies are static” (Isbister, 2006, p. 1).
This reminds me of when I traveled to Southeast Asia and went on a “tour” of Sapa, Vietnam, where a local village displayed their traditional ways. Our teenage tour guide, dressed in traditional dress, spent most of our tour talking on her cell phone. This was an important reminder that societies we like to describe as “traditional” are not static or unchanging, or even lacking in technology necessarily, but have their own ways, and adapt to the modern world in ways that work for them.
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The files attached are to quote from the course reading.
