"Corey showed me and read to me what he had written on his info link...having heard Corey use the word prejudice, I asked him if he knew what the word meant and he blew my mind by saying that prejudice was prejudging someone based on the way they looked. (By this point I wondered if I was talking to the next Martin Luther King Jr.)" (Avila & Pandya, 2013)
It's amazing how easy it is to understand the prejudices in this world, but for a young boy to understand prejudice and how it works, well, that is a sobering thought. How easy is us to judge and prejudize others from only a single glance? Teaching our children what prejudices are at a young will help destigmatize discussing prejudice online, face-to-face, and throughout everyday life. Hopefully, learning about prejudices at an early age will help stave off real prejudiced behavior later in life.
The following video discusses the direct and immediate effects of active prejudice on children in an older social study made famous in the educational community.
References:
Avila, J., & Pandya, J. (2013). Critical digital literacies as social praxis. (p. 54). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.
Jane elliott - brown eyes vs. blue eyes [Web]. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqp6GnYqIjQ
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