I really like this part “But I don’t hate science. Not by a long shot. That’s really not what we are trying to say. We wouldn’t say that if we didn’t care so badly”. Exactly!

Thanks for sharing the movie. I just watched the trailer and it looks like a very interesting movie to grad students!

Hi Carrie, thanks for your reply and sharing your thoughts with me! I think one thing we need to keep in mind before trying to find a solution is (also acknowledged in the Kincheloe article if I’m not taking it wrong) that this relationship between power and the content of the standard curriculum is impossible to eliminate. And this is an important factor to consider and to let our students know when we learn and teach. It’s important to have one’s own point of view and even a firm attitude sometimes, but it’s also important to have an open mind for new/different perspectives: and that’s how knowledge is created and developed. Just some of my thoughts on your questions.

I agree with you 100 percent that even if stereotypes are hard to eliminate, we should make the classroom a safe/brave place.

I like the idea! and I replied in your post on this.:)

I like the idea of starting this from the first day in school. Education has a lot of influence on our future.

Thanks for the post and thanks for Carrie’s mentioning of the toddler in China. It invoked a large discussion in my country, and it was almost identical to this “unconscious bias” story: people who were not present criticize those who were but not actively helped. When a crowd of people witness a crime scene, almost all of them tend to think that someone else is going to help. In this case, it is helpful for the victim to specify someone to help him/her. So this might be a specific prejudice against a group but a common problem for human beings that need our attention.

Thanks for the post! It does take a lot of courage to admit something about ourselves that we think are bad. However, as an old saying in China (or a writer actually wrote this?) goes: “you can never wake up someone who pretends to be asleep.” The first step of improving something is to admit it. Now you know you are not asleep, you are awake, so you can work on it. We are all struggling with some kind of stereotype. But now we know, we can improve.

Thanks Willie for your thoughts. Your last paragraph does make me think. Maybe I did misunderstand the meaning of performance and thank you for pointing that out. But I’m glad we have agreement on teaching.

If you hold “command” and hit the video, it will take you to the original youtube site and the author posts the program in the video description section. I’m glad you like it!