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Mar 3, 2021 54 min

199 | Teaching Prejudice

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In 1968, an Iowa teacher named Jane Elliott created a powerful lesson demonstrating the effects of prejudice with a classroom of white children, in an effort to foster empathy that she believed was sorely needed around the world at the height of racist tension. As prejudice evolved in different forms during subsequent decades, she repurposed the lesson as an effective exercise that could be tailored to many different populations, all with the intention of encouraging understanding and unity. Links for Today: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/introduction-2/ https://youtu.be/PnNQxTZTMtM https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/an-unfinished-crusade-an-interview-with-jane-elliott/ We are on Reddit! https://www.reddit.com/user/WhyWeDoWhatWeDo Recommendations Abraham: The Martian (book and movie; https://www.andyweirauthor.com/books/the-martian-tr, https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-martian/) Shane: Thriftbooks.com (https://www.thriftbooks.com/) https://repository.wcsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1074&context=ssj You can reach us directly at 775.525.0908, at [email protected], through the comments below OR on social via @wwdwwdpodcast or #wwdwwdpodcast.

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