As I mentioned in my discussion post, people are encouraged to volunteer for many reasons. It talks about increasing your social skills/making connections with new people, teaches you valuable life skills and lessons, and allows for you to be impactful and a part of something bigger than just yourself. It also stated how it canContinue reading “Volunteering: Doing the World’s Best Work”
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Charities Impacts
Charities are a constant issue for me and my family, we want to help, want to donate; but where and how. Then you check mail, and you get a free gift for supporting this charity or that one. So, you say yes, I found a way. The next month you begin getting increasingly of theseContinue reading “Charities Impacts”
Mandatory Service Hours: Good or Bad?
In my small community, service was something that was always emphasized and praised, however I never understood how to do it or what to do. Many schools have a rule that forces students to do at least some community service projects in order to graduate. While this is a great idea, in theory, it failsContinue reading “Mandatory Service Hours: Good or Bad?”
Volunteer Motives
Individual motivations for volunteers, as well as the marketed motivations pushed by programs and organizations are varied. The two notable influences of these motivations are either: for the community, or for the self. In terms of serving the community, a lot of the language surrounding these programs include a sense of personal responsibility to giveContinue reading “Volunteer Motives”
Understanding The Motivations of Kony 2012
When examining why someone would be motivated to volunteer I felt it would be most effective to examine a particular activist campaign, so when Aronson described the phrase ‘white savior industrial complex’ as being first coined by Teju Cole in response to a video blowing up online called ‘Kony 2012’ I knew I had toContinue reading “Understanding The Motivations of Kony 2012”
Volunteering Images
There are two types of images I have seen associated with volunteering: there are the ones of showing the “people” we are trying to help and then there are the ones showing young white people out on adventures. Both trouble me as I feel they are exploiting one group and using the other to showContinue reading “Volunteering Images”
Power and Privilege
When we look at the world we all see something different. For example, a Black single mother living in poverty is likely to view the world much differently than Jeff Bezos, yet people like Bezos make the solutions for people they simply cannot understand. As mentioned in the ‘GlobalPOV# Project (2014),’ video, it is extremelyContinue reading “Power and Privilege”
Inherent Privilege and Power
This module four about power and privilege, works to show everyone how power and privilege work hand in hand to maintain each other. Once a group has power over another group, they work to maintain that power. To retain their policies and procedures the dominate group creates privileges for themselves within the framework of theirContinue reading “Inherent Privilege and Power”
How Important Race is to our History
One thing that has resonated with me since Module 2 is the topic of microaggression. “Microaggressions hold their power because they are invisible, and therefore they don’t allow us to see that our actions and attitudes may be discriminatory,” (DeAngelis, 2009). Jana Noel touched upon this concept in broader terms. Jana talked about the socialContinue reading “How Important Race is to our History”
Sources of Bias
Module 3 was extremely informative about the structure and status quo that defines our modern society and school system. The critical perspective of school socialization that Jana Noel describes in “Developing Multicultural Educators” resonated with me as fitting with my current view of critical educational issues. The idea in this perspective is that the culturalContinue reading “Sources of Bias”
Community Service: Destructive or Empowering? 