{"id":334,"date":"2010-06-10T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=334"},"modified":"2011-11-07T16:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:03:27","slug":"reflecting-on-schools-and-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/06\/10\/reflecting-on-schools-and-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This assignment should be used after students read &#8220;How Schools Really Matter&#8221; by Douglas B. Downey and Benjamin G. Gibbs (found in the most recent issue of <em>Contexts)<\/em>. \u00a0The article would also work great paired with excerpts from Annette Lareau\u2019s <em>Unequal Childhoods. <\/em>For example, it could be paired with the first 10 pages of the book.<\/p>\n<p>Once students have read these two pieces, assign a short reflection essay as homework or as an in-class reflection \u00a0Potential directions include the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this short response, you should reflect on your childhood.\u00a0 Develop a list of the resources you had in your household and the extracurricular activities that you were enrolled in (both through school and outside of school).\u00a0 Think about how these various resources contributed to your intellectual development.\u00a0 Did your parents have a very &#8220;hands-on&#8221; (concerted cultivation) approach or were they more &#8220;hands-off&#8221; (natural growth model)?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by photophan2 on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21481686@N00\/4686834784\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4001\/4686834784_dcf09c962c_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_2563\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This assignment should be used after students read &#8220;How Schools Really Matter&#8221; by Douglas B. Downey and Benjamin G. Gibbs (found in the most recent issue of Contexts). \u00a0The article would also work great paired with excerpts from Annette Lareau\u2019s Unequal Childhoods. For example, it could be paired with the first 10 pages of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,34,837],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-class","tag-education","tag-materials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}