Education Leadership

 "We can't expect to do this job without being hit" (Vega, B., 2022) "This is a hard-to-accept fact that all history verifies. We must acknowledge it and move on to adopt policies based on what I call: "Racial Realism" (Bell, D., 1992) My reflection: I firmly believe I have begun to pursue anti-racist practices. And, the quotes above express how I have been feeling during the course. It has hurt, and know will keep hurting to realize that racism is deep-rooted in our society, and has also directly affected me, but I am ready for the fight to have those few or many moments of victory. I don't think it is pointless, on the contrary, the alert-bottom has been installed in me to identify whether white supremacy, coloniaslism, classism, color blindness, microagression happen in our routines.  On the other hand, by reading the article by Yosso in which she questions whether Higher education institutions' diversity practices are genuine or of convenience, ...

 

 

Quote that spoke to me: "...although the term race is not useful as a biological construct, policymakers cannot avoid the fact that social race remains a significant predictor of which groups have greater access to societal goods and resources and which groups face barriers - both historical and in the contemporary context - to full inclusion." (Smeddely & Smeddley, 2005) MY REFLECTION: Peru is described as a  diverse  multilingual and pluri/m ult ic ultural society and his History and cultural heritage to the world is undeniable to most eyes. However, these last two weeks as I was reading the course texts, some of my memories of my early childhood came back.  As a child I grew up surrounded by people of diverse ethnicity and race. In my eyes, the color of the skin, eyes, or hair meant nothing beyond the difference in color. Nonetheless, as I grew up, I realized I was living in a bubble. I learnt we were all poor , and that we had been marginalized.  At a str...

- The big 'T' theory trying to explain how human learns and develop mainly polarizes the biological and the context in which the subject is subsumed. As a teacher I have seen both playing a crucial role and both failing to explain the exceptions. Myself, is one of them. I only went to kindergarten one week, but went to first grade of primary at the age of 4 accompanying my sister. Ms. Margot Chumpitaz was kind enough to accept and have me as a free student wandering about the classroom. I learnt to read and write without formal instruction but from everything I had access to in my sis' classroom: story books, the teacher explanations, students' chat and many others, I suppose. Context does influence development in the way Vigotsky explained (ZPD), but I also believe that my parents brought me up to be biologically ready for learning so Piaget may say I went from one domain to the other as expected. Although I had breakfast from 'vaso de leche', lunch from 'c...