Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Recognizing Roadblocks to Equality — 7
Racism — 8
Sexism — 10
Examining Your Classroom for Racism and Sexism — 12
Types of
Racism and Sexism — 13
Classism — 14
Ageism — 17
Heterosexism — 18
Linguicism — 19
Anti — Semitism and Other Religious Oppression — 21
Ableism — 22
Competitive Individualism — 23
Chapter 2: Teaching for Equality — 26
SECTION A: A Humanistic, Social Justice Approach for Teaching
About Equality — 26
1. Humanistic Education: Personal Empowerment
and Community Building — 27
2. Social Justice Education: Critical
Awareness of Inequality-28
3. Integrating Humanistic and Social
Justice Education — 30
SECTION B: The Connections: Our Classrooms, Schools, and the
Broader Society — 31
1. Societal Challenges to Equity — 31
2. Teachers, Students,
and the Power to Change – 34
Chapter 3: Building Trust and Communication — 37
SECTION A: Getting Acquainted — 39
Name Game — 39
Concentric Circles — 39
People Scavenger Hunt — 40
Commonalities — 41
SECTION B: Developing Listening Skills — 43
I Feel Good
About Myself — 43
Listening — Checking — 44
Adjective Attributes — 45
SECTION C: Building Group Process
Skills — 47
The Equal School — 47
Gumdrop Inventions — 48
Who's Doing the Talking? — 49
SECTION D: Sharing Feelings and Giving Feedback — 51
Color
Me Loveable and Capable — 51
Feeling Messages – 51
Chapter 4: Developing Skills for Creative Cooperation — 58
SECTION A: Learning Cooperative Skills — 59
Brainstorming — 59
The Bean Jar — 61
No Interrupting — 61
Helpful Hints for Helping — 62
Zebulon's Fall — 64
SECTION B: Practicing Interviewing — 66
Intriguing Interviews — 66
"Hello, I'd Like to Know …" — 67
SECTION C: Encouraging Creative Thinking and Problem — Solving — 70
Fantasy
Problem — Solving — 70
We All Own the Problem — 71
Role Play Guidelines and Techniques — 72
Community Meetings – 75
Chapter 5: Expanding Our Vistas: Our Lives to Others' Lives — 80
SECTION
A: New Perspectives to See the World — 81
It's All
in How You Look at Things — 81
What's in the Picture — 82
The Nine Dot Problem — 83
SECTION B: Sharing Who We Are — 84
Who Are We? — 84
We Are Each of Many Traits — 85
SECTION C: Others' Shoes:
Others' Views — 86
If I Were … — 86
A Girl on Our Team! — 87
That's What You Brought for Lunch? — 87
Falling Behind — 89
If Only We Had More Money — 89
Left Out — 91
Seeing — Eye Glasses – 93
Chapter 6: New Words: New Perspectives — 103
SECTION A: Prejudice and Stereotypes — 105
Prejudice
and Stereotypes: What Are They? — 105
No Grandmothers Wanted — 107
Renee Ramos — 107
Lizzie Gets Old Clothes — 108
M. and S. Auto Repair — 109
From Feathers to Facts — 110
Don't Judge Me So Fast — 112
Females and Males: How We're "Supposed" to
Be? — 113
We All Lose — 116
Analyzing Stereotypes: What's Behind
the Labels? — 117
SECTION B: The "Isms" — 120
The "Isms":
What Are They? — 120
Me, Myself, and I — 121
Letter from Sally — 122
Who Will Take Care of Jamil? — 123
Health or Home? — 124
Lillie's Dilemma — 126
All Kinds of Bodies and All Kinds
of Minds — 127
Separation — 129
Growing Up Jewish in the United States Today — 131
Let's
Talk About Talk – 132
Chapter 7: Discrimination: Prices and Choices — 161
SECTION A: Unequal Resources = Unequal Results — 163A
Little Praise Goes a Long Way — 163
Values Auction — 165
Blaming the Victim — 166
Assignment: Research Paper — 169
Is "the Same" Always "Fair"? — 171
Equal
Opportunity? — 173
SECTION B: Connections to Others — 174
Team Spirit — 174
Pay Day — 175
Ice Cream Sundaes, Apples, or Raisins — 176
Up and Over We
Go — 178
Can I Get In? — 180
SECTION C: The Complexities of Oppression — 182
The
Filter of Oppression — 182
Believing the Myths? — 185
Put It on Others? — 188
It Takes a Village — 190
Different Kinds of Bias: Different
Experiences — 191
Many Voices — 193
A Legacy of Racism — 194
Chapter 8: Investigating Your Environment — 215
SECTION A: Exploring Your Classroom and School — 217
Stop
and Look Carefully — 217
Why Are We off School Today? — 218
Our Textbooks: Are They
Fair? — 220
Find That Class(ic) Bias — 222
Who's Who in Our School … 223
… And How
Do They Feel About It? — 224
Listen Carefully — 224
Me or We — 225
SECTION B: What About Your Home? — 226
But I'd
Rather Take Out the Garbage — 226
Presents I've
Received — 227
Read Me a Story – 228
Chapter 9: More Environmental Influences
and Their Effects — 233
SECTION A: Examine the Media — 234
Black Lies and White
Lies — 234
Are They Advertising More Than
the Product? — 235
1,023 Hours
a Year — 237
Sell, Sell, Sell, Buy, Buy, Buy — 239
Fairness in Reporting? — 240
Listening to the Lyrics — 242
Even with Careful Budgeting — 244
SECTION B: Look at Your Community — 246
Please Buy Me
One — 246
A Firefighter, Not a Fireman — 247
Guess What? Our Dentist
Is a Woman! — 248
The Message in the
Package — 249
On the Horns of a Dilemma — 250
SECTION C: How Has This Affected Me? — 251
More to It
Than Just Calculating — 251
Unfinished Adventures — 252
What If It Hurts? — 253
What I Want to Be — 253
Put — Downs — 254
Discrimination: Has It Helped or Hindered
Me? – 255
Chapter 10: Things Can Be Different — 270
SECTION A: People Making Changes: From Then to Now — 271
Here's
What Some People Did — 271
Sojourner Truth Puppet
Show — 272
Stop! Don't
Take It for Granted — 273
Alone and Together — 273
Chicanas Strike at Farah — 275
Affirmative Action: Before and
After — 276
Speaking
Out Against Bias in School — 278
Taking a Stand — 279
SECTION B: Creating Alternatives: Envisioning the Future — 282
Job
Sharing, or Who's the Cook Tonight? — 282
Inuit — 283
The Children's Place — 284
Yes, You Can Be a Doctor — 285
Youth and Age in Action — 286
A Classroom for All of Us — 288
Using Privilege for Change – 289
Chapter 11: We Can Make
Changes — 313
SECTION A: Gaining Confidence and Skills
for Change — 314
Facing
Discrimination, Finding Courage — 314
Say It So They'll
Hear It — 316
From Fear to Power — 317
You Have to Make Decisions — 319
SECTION B: Making Changes at School — 320
Calendars — 320
Keep Your Rights — 322
Relearning About Native Americans — 324
Making Learning Cooperative — 326
New Words Help Us — 327
A Fair Book Fair — 328
SECTION C: Changing Our Texts and Books — 330
Textbook
Alert — 330
Finding Better Books — 331
… And We Wrote Them Ourselves — 332
Change That Class(ic)
Bias — 333
SECTION D: Making an Impact on the Media — 334
TV Turnabouts — 334
Let Me Tell You What I Think — 335
Sharing Results — 336
We Can Design Them Ourselves — 337
Using Statistics to Make
an Argument — 338
SECTION E: Reaching Out: Friends, Family, and the Community — 339
Won
or Fun? — 339
Sharing Privilege: Everybody Gains! — 341
Removing Those Hurdles — 342
New Village – 343
Resource Section — 357
Integrating Open Minds to Equality into Your Curriculum — 357
Reading — 357
Language Arts — 358
Math — 359
Science — 360
Social Studies — 360
Art — 361
Forms of Discrimination Addressed in Lessons — 362
Annotated Bibliography — 366
1. Sources of Materials — 366
2. Teacher Resources for Promoting
Equity in Schools — 368
3.
Curricula — 371
4. Media — 373
5. Periodicals — 375
6. Background Reading for Teachers — 376
7. Fiction for Young
People — 382
8. Nonfiction for Young People — 389
9. Poetry and Legends — 393
10. Biography — 394
11. Biography Collections for Young People — 397
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