Jane Elliott created the famous blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise, first done with third-grade school children in the 1960s, which later became the basis for her career in diversity training. The exercise was conducted the day following Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination. After the assassination she had a class discussion about the lesson and racism in general. She later said: I could see that they werent internalizing a thing. They were doing what white people do. When white people sit down to discuss racism what they are experiencing is shared ignorance. The purpose of the exercise was to try to teach her students the effects of being a minority. ...This clip was made many years later and is about 14minutes long, if you have the bandwidth, credit or time please watch it if youve never seen it. Jane Elliot is an amazing teacher, you can also find the original clip of her third graders on You Tube if you search for it.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:50:32 +0000