Course: EDUC – 6164 – 2

Week 4 Blog Assignment

Practicing Awareness of Micro- aggression

Joanne Lynch

Date: Saturday 28^th September, 2013.

     Tyrique is a Grade One student who lives with his grandmother in a small community on the outskirt of the city in my country, since he was a baby. He is very hyperactive, but extremely loving, and likes to play a lot with other children while he is at school, because he is the only child that is living in the house hold, and has no one to play with at home. As a matter of fact, this child’s method of play is exceptionally rough, in that, he always hits other students then run.  Undoubtedly, Tyrique is not an aggressive child, in view of the fact that, his intention is not to hurt his classmates, but as most of them do not understand his technique of playing, they often think that he is bullying them, hence, the numerous complains the class teacher receives from their parents relating to this issue. However, he was spoken to by the teacher concerning the strategy that is used when he is playing with his classmates. Likewise, his grandmother was asked to talk to him about his behavior.

   Consequently, instead of Tyrique’s grandmother cooperating with the class teacher, she became angry, and was engaged in a behavior that threatened and demeaned the teacher of such a communication. To be more precise, she stated that she was tired of hearing the teacher complaining about her grandson, for he is not the worst child in the school, and that she was going to transfer him to another school. As a matter of fact, I thought that this assertion being used by Tyrique’s grandmother to the teacher, contain demeaning meta-communications or hidden message (the teacher and classmates do not like Tyrique). However, I felt that this grandmother possesses biased thoughts, attitudes, and feelings that harmed the teacher.

     Obviously, from observation experiences, my perception of the effects of discrimination, prejudice, and stereotypes on people is that they have generated an unfavorable and invalidating climate for people, reduce their spiritual and metaphysical energies, and their cumulative nature which can result in melancholy, frustration, fury, outrage, loss of self-esteem, and apprehension.

                                                             

Reference

Laureate Education, Inc. (Producer). (2011). "Micro-aggressions in Everyday Life" [Video                             webcast]. In Perspective Diversity & Equity. Retrieved from                  https://class.waldenu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCoursse   26id%3D_3468047_1%26url%3D