All about that DISCOURSE
Use the word "discourse" correctly in a sentence
A common discourse of gender is men being viewed as stronger than women
Define agency
Control over one's actions/consequences
Define resistance
To challenge or fight unjust or oppressive systems and/or power holders within the context of nonviolent actions
Define Ethnocentrism
The tendency to view your own society or culture as superior
True or False: You need to cite every idea that is NOT your own.
True
Define/explain "discourse"
"why we say what we say"
a certain way of speaking
communication about a specific topics
Give an example of how Indigenous girls showed agency in the article
Humour
Education
Give an example from the reading of how Indigenous girls showed resistance
Resistance from within oneself
Describe what "assimilate" means, in relation to Residential Schools.
Individuals or groups of differing ethnicities are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
Canadian government as an attempt to both educate and convert Indigenous youth and to assimilate them into Canadian society.
True or False: APA formatting includes size 12pt font, double-spaced, 1inch margins.
True! Don't forget to indent all of your paragraphs too.
Give an example of a discourse related to CHYS
Example:
Childhood - as a social construct - innocence and developing
T or F: the reading by Sadrina de Finney stated that sense of community did not help the Indigenous girls gain agency and individualism
False: it did help!
T or F: in the Sandrina de Finney article, protesting was mentioned as being influential
True, the protests demonstrated that they would not silenced
T or F: based on this week's reading, due to ethnocentric views, White settlers believed that Black and Indigenous people were less than human.
True
True or False: The name of the page that includes a list of all of the sources used is called "Works Cited."
False: It's called "Reference Page."
Who created the term discourse?
Michel Foucault
"Presencing" refers to how Indigenous girls make themselves present beyond notions of trauma. What might the opposite of presence be?
Absence.
How is the clark doll experiment related to trans-Atlantic slavery (and it's impact on childhoods)
Even though slavery and
segregation had been abolished black children still associated negative connotations with
blackness. Given a black and a white baby doll, children were asked questions about the
dolls, and answers implied they thought the black doll was bad.
Give an example of assimilation in relation to Residential Schools
Indigenous students were forced to "forget" their spiritual practices and abide by the religion of Christianity
True or False: "et al." is used when there is two or more authors.
False: when there are three or more authors.