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                                                     The silenced Dialogue by Lisa Delpit

In the silenced dialogue, the author talks about how the "culture of power" has such a big impact on today's education. When I was reading this, I began to think of how my teachers may have treated me and my classmates in the past. The author goes over several experiences when teachers and students come across cultural differences and how privilege and power can have an effect on somebody's education. A teacher can have a big impact on your learning especially due to the fact that they are always around you and your classmates. The author recommends teachers to try and get closer with their students by listening and thinking of a better way to connect with them. Delpit keeps bringing up the idea of power and tells us how unfair it can be to us. The author does a good job of talking about how the hard conversations need to be talked about and acted upon instead of just ignored due to the fact that somebody is going to feel a certain way or feel disrespected. Delpit talks about the "culture of power" and how the people with more power don't actually realize how privileged they are and do not think about it. However, it is opposite for the people who have less power and more privileged as they are always thinking about how much better and more fortunate the one's with more power are. Having a teacher that is learning new things in the classroom and being able to adapt and change for their students is what makes a teacher easy to work with. While reading this, I was able to make loads of connections among the same topics of privilege and power connected to the reading by Alan Johnson. Both of these readings are similar in many ways but also at the same time they are different. 

Attached Here is a link to more information of how to be a better teacher in a multiracial classroom and how to adapt and change to help better your students learning and understanding. 

This picture that I chose here are showing how all of the people are different in this picture but they are still all equal and should all still be treated equal. They all look different and are all different in certain ways but they should still all be treated fairly and the same. 

Kevin Crowe

Reflection on Privilege Power and Difference by Alan Johnson

Reflection: In chapter 1, the author talks about the idea of how social systems create advantages for some individuals or groups while also disadvantaging others. This chapter talks about what it is like to be privileged and how it affects certain people in today's society. He talks about how these advantages and disadvantages are not the result of people's actions but are placed in larger social structures and organizations. He also talks about the importance of understanding and acknowledging these certain patters that keep on happening in order to solve the problem of social inequality.  When I was reading this, one thing that I found very interesting was the diversity wheel chart. This chart shows how different things can affect the privilege of a person. The author discusses certain forms of privilege such as race, gender, and class and how they add up to create life experiences of either advantages or disadvantages. As I was reading this, I really started to think about how my life could have been different if I was to recognize the advantages and disadvantages people had to go through due to being privileges. A big question that I have is how different things in your life change based on how privileged you are. I ask this because if you are more privileged than somebody else in any way, then you are going to have an advantage over them. Same thing goes for being disadvantaged, if somebody else is more privileged than you will be at a disadvantage.  The author made me think about reflecting on my life and thinking about my place and how privileged I am. Attached Here is a link that brings us to learn more about how race and children affect our lives every day. Many people seem to avoid these conversations and discussions when brought up because they feel as though some sign of disrespect will be taken. This author does a really good job talking about the stuff that people avoid daily and do not want to talk about. This just goes to show the problems we live through in our society.