Jane Elliott Teaches Exercise Against Racism

Jane Elliott taught to oppose racial discrimination and her experiments at the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1992 became world famous. Jane Elliott (62) did a behavioral training to allow her brown eyes, blue eyed movements, and white men to experience the effects of prejudice and oppression. If you no longer have power, you will be arbitrarily discriminated against just because you are blue eyes. During the international cycle against racism, Jane Eliot came to the Netherlands.

Abstract: This video introduces Jane Elliot's famous but controversial "blue eyes / brown eyes" movement. Elliot originally designed this exercise in the 1960's and explained the nature of inhumane, irrational and immoral racial discrimination. This is easily recognized, as her experiment shows. At that time, Elliott was a grade 3 elementary school teacher in a white town in Iowa State, wanting to understand that students are receiving arbitrary and unfair treatment based on the color of their skin. To do this, she made an exercise to allow white students to undergo this treatment so that they can experience it for themselves. Her first exercise was developed during the racial discrimination peculiar to America in the 1960's, but her contemporary seminar keeps racial discrimination more subtle in today's multicultural society I clarified the method.

When Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, Jane Eliot, a 3rd grade teacher in Iowa province, to do exercise in her class to help her students understand racial discrimination and discrimination Did. She spent the time to discriminate the students of the blue eyes who spent the day in discerning the students of the brown eyes and the blue eyes, and the blue eyes next time so that they discriminate against each other It encouraged. In 1970, exercise was taken by PBS. Fourteen years later, the students of this movie reviewed the movie again and discussed the influence of the movement on their lives.

Jane Elliott (née Jennison; born May 27, 1933) is a former third-year school teacher, anti-racist activist, educator, and feminist. She is known for her "blue eyes - brown eyes" campaign. Two days after Martin Luther King was assassinated, she first made a famous campaign in her class. Reaction (positive and negative) formed the basis of her career as a public speaker against discrimination when her local newspaper published an essay on the experience written by children. Practice in Elliot 's class was the third time with the third grader of the 1970 grader, and it became the storm' s eyes. This time this time it affected retrospective exhibitions, and in the A class which was divided after 15 years, I met with teachers again in the 1970 class. After graduating from school, Elliott became a full-time diverse educator. She is still participating in the exercise and teaches its influence in several places in the USA and abroad.