Visit the Shades of Noir (SoN)

Having not used this resource before until now. I find the site quite hard to use. The purpose of the site and all the useful information that it holds but unless you know what you are looking for it quite hard to navigate around the site. There were some interesting posts that some of our students might find interesting within performance. There are a good Number of articles to disgust. I’m not sure when I would use this resource, but it is good to have this in the back of the mind for if I never need to refence this.  

Read Hahn Tapper (2013) ‘A pedagogy of social justice education: social identity, theory and intersectionality’, Pp. 411-417

Hahn Tapper makes a very good point about social justice and social identities. I find that with our students all have their social groups. When a student is going their shows, they would only work with people in their social groups. Students would group up with other students from the same background. I guess they feel most comfortable and have more in common. At. The start of the year we normally do get to know you game with the year where they are all in a circle and that to tell the others their name, pronouns, where they are from, then 2 truths and 1 lie. Then the rest of the group must guess the lie. It’s a great ice breaker to get to know the group. We then split them into groups that must come learn some technical skills to make some work that was set as tasks. They would then share all the work as a group in a presentation. This was good as we had students hanging out and working and socialising with others that they might not have done.    

“Witness Unconscious Bias” video.

Unconscious Bias is always going to be a thing it doesn’t always have to be about race it could be about judging people on what they wear people make unconscious bias on the type of person some one is by the way that they dress. Like if I was wearing tracksuit and baseball cap people you judge me as being a thug or part of a gang that what’s to go around making trouble. People would keep their distance maybe get followed by security. These people might not know that they are judging them. Also, with well-dressed people some my think that they are posh snobs. Unconscious bias is a good think to learn but at a younger age. If we can teach the kids about bias and what it is they would have the understanding that we shouldn’t judge someone that is different than them. I did the university unconscious bias training and I thought it was very pointless. It might be just the way I am Im a very easy-going person I treat people with the same respect as what I would. Require myself. Any student that I work with gets my full support in their work. There are always a few students that send more time down in our workshops with that you gain a better relationship with them another that maybe only see once in the 3 years. Nevertheless, they still that the same support.