I loved reading about Gude's thoughts on diversity in the classroom. She mentioned a lot of things that we cover in my Multicultural Education class. It was intriguing to me that in the 70's, she permed her hair and wanted to be able to paint her skin. After thinking this more thoroughly, she realized that being black - even in the U.S. - is much more than the color of your skin. It includes the experience of being black and having even the ancestry and history of a black person. She doesn't really talk about developing curriculum around diversity so much, but I love her approach to this subject as an educator. She recognizes how strange it is to be white - a part of the oppressive majority - while trying to be immersed in other cultures. Her judgment of the situation seems fair and mostly unbiased. She reads books by authors from other cultures and does her best to analyze the classroom setting in regards to diversity. I would like to implement similar strategies, maybe even sharing the kinds of picture books she looked into with my classroom.
I thought her comments about curriculum were important, especially in viewing standards less as rules and more as goals.
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