Brown Eye Study : Jane Elliot's A Class Divided

On the first day of the experiment, the blue-eyed children, or the in-group, were told they were superior to the brown eyed children, the out-group. On top of being told they were better and smarter than the brown-eyed children, the out-group was not allowed to drink from the same fountain, play together at recess, or go back for seconds at lunch-time. The brown eyed children received less recess time, had to wait to go to lunch, and wore collars for easy recognition.

On the day blue eyed people were superior; she brings up the point that blue eyed fathers never kick their children, like one brown eyed boy’s father had done the prior week. But when blue eyed Russell forgot his glasses the following day, it had to be because he has blue eyes, since Susan, whom has brown eyes, remembered her glasses. Elliot also led the children to decide that since blue eyed Greg said he likes to hit his litter sister, this conveys blue eyed people are naughty.

Inequalities in skin color at Wilson were very prevalent. This wasn’t because of the teacher, but the world around them. Each different color segregated themselves to “keep with their own.” The differences like this kept the students at Wilson from reaching their potential. When

“A Class Divided”: When asked the question, “do you think you know how it feels to be judged by the color of your skin”, a few felt that they did. Initially the children were excited to participate in the blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment, until they realized they would be the people being judged. Once the teacher announced that the blue-eyed people are the “better people” than the brown-eyed children, immediately voiced their disagreement. One blue-eyed boy stated, “My dad has brown eyes and he’s not stupid.”

She broke the kids up by brown, and blue eyes giving the kids with blue eyes special treatment over the brown eyes students. This allowed the brown eyed kids to feel how colored kids are treated. The teacher put the blue eyed kids on a pedestal while treating the brown eyed kids with disgust, and unfair treatment.

In watching the video Jane Elliot specifically separated the class by eye color Blue eyed meaning that you were better smarter and appreciated more in society and brown eyed meaning you were less than, not a good person, and not as smart as a blue-eyed person. And one of students was subjective to that because one his parents was brown eyed and he didn't quite understand why was his dad being labeled as less because of his eye color. The kids quickly recognized that brown eyed people were labeled as bad people and people who are flat out bad. One of the students who was labeled as brown eye immediately felt the treatment of not be treated equally and being put down based upon his eye color.

In this video, I saw how the third grader kids’ behaviors change drastically towards the brown-eye color and blue-eye color classmates. I notice that it is up to an authoritarian figure in their life to remodel the kids’ entire view with regards to others based on their differences. In one of the segments, there was a blue-eyed child that said he felt better than they brown eye kids and smarter because that is what Mrs. Elliot, the teacher, had told them at the beginning of the class. He attitude changes significantly, he became rude and harsh. This lesson had turned the kids against the brown eye children making them to discriminating them and having prejudice against their classmates even though they have known each other probably for

The history of our culture has said it is okay to separate individuals based on the color of their skin. However, not all believed that segregation was right when it came to the education system. When the time came to Desegreted School it was meet by resistant, but the effects of this historical movement can still be seen in the 21st century.

I am amazingly acquainted with the A Class Divided film and a tremendous promoter for Jane Elliott. Elliott settled on a disputable choice by making one kind of lesson arrangement for her third grade class to share in after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Her lesson in segregation pulls at viewers feelings and is significantly more powerful on the genuine members. We likewise saw situations in which Elliott utilized the same activities on grown-ups and undergrads with the same results. Bigotry and partiality are still issues that minorities, ladies, and elderly individuals must manage consistently. Elliot's activity not just puts Caucasian people in an uncomfortable position, however it drives them to feel the adverse impacts of outlandish bias. These movies can and ought to be utilized as a part of school and secondary school classrooms to instruct America's childhood about separation and how our general public can free itself of this issue.

On April 5, 1968 Jane Elliott changed the lives of her third grade class. She was attempting to simply teach the children about racial prejudice, however a much greater impact was made. In her exercise called the Brown Eye Blue Eye experiment, the children in her classroom with blue eyes were given armbands to wear to signify their eye color while the brown-eyed children remained normal. Then the children were told that everyone with brown eyes was better, and that “they were cleaner and smarter.” Soon enough, the children with brown eyes were degrading the blue-eyed children for no other reason than they were told since they have brown eyes they were better.

A Class Divided is about a 3rd grade class and their teacher. The teacher is passionately against racism and wants to inspire change. The day after Martin Luther King Jr. died she has the courage to start. She introduces the idea that blue-eyed people are better to her 3rd grade class and spends the whole day reinforcing that mindset. She gives biased examples of why the blue-eyed children are better, pointing out every mistake a brown-eyed child makes. She makes rules for the brown-eyed children to follow, telling them they can’t get seconds at lunch, play with the blued eyed children, or use the water fountain. She even goes so far as to give them collars to wear so that they are distinguished from a distance. The children follow along without

In the video, “A Class Divided,” the video shows a teacher from Iowa named, Jane Elliot who wants to teach her students the importance of discrimination. During her experimentation, she starts off her lesson by asking questions such as, “What is brotherhood?” “What is discrimination?” and “How are we supposed to treat people who look different than us?” Elliot then proceeds to ask her class if they would like to know what it feels like to be discriminated. Her emphasis in this experiment is to show how it felt to be discriminated. Elliot was inspired to do this experiment when she was listening to the television the night after they assassinated Martin Luther king. She kept hearing the news reporter say things like: “who will look after your people?” and “How will your people manage?” After this she knew she had to explain to her class in a way they will understand. Elliot decided to divide the class into two categories: the brown eyed kids and the blue eyed kids. At first the blue eyed kids were the superior race while, the brown eyed kids were the lower race. Being the inferior race meant that they had to wear blue collars around their necks in order to differentiate their eye color. Of course, the brown eyed kids had restrictions. They could not play in the playground, they could not befriend nor socialize with the blue eyed kids, and etc. The kids had a chance to walk in

This documentary was about how it feels to be discriminated upon and how it can be influenced in small children easily. Discrimination creates a barrier in the mind. For this reason, the barriers created by the prejudice are hard to overcome. In light to this, Elliott segregates her class according to eye color whereby brown eyes are perceived to be superior to the blue-eyed people. On the first day, the brown eyed pupils were provided with privileges (A Class Divided). They were allowed to have help at lunch, extra time at recess and a sense of self-worth above the blue eyed students. However, on the On the following day (not next) the situation is reversed and the blue eyed pupils are indulged with privilege which results to making brown eyed pupils feel less special compared with their peers. Elliott takes the opportunity to observe her class turning into a microcosm of society. Surprisingly, every time the experiment was carried out, the preferred group quickly turned the tables and embraced elite status. This implies that the two groups readily adopted the propaganda that Elliott sprouted on them (A Class Divided). The two created groups readily adopted their roles to perfection.

In Jane Elliot's Blue/ Brown Eyes experiment, what was shown a lot in this video was discrimination. The reason being is because half the kids were getting treated unfairly than the other half of the kids in the class because of the color of their eyes. They were getting bullied by people with the "superior" eyes, they got longer recesses, and they were allowed to get seconds for lunch. Discrimination is all about action and the unequal, unjust, and unfair treatment that discrimination entails is getting put into action against these kids. Racism also plays a part in this even though the kids were all of the same race.

Family, community, and society have a consistent, unavoidable impact on the individual and our own sense of identity. Whether it is the home we grow up in, the societal standards we face, or the relationships we lose and make, self-identification is significantly influenced by our surroundings. This journey to find oneself is a central theme within both Toni Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye, and Marilynne Robinson’s, Housekeeping. The Bluest Eye tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young African American girl who yearns for the acceptance and love from society. The idea that she must have blue eyes if she wants to look beautiful has been imprinted on her and has affected the way she identifies herself. Then Housekeeping follows two sisters, Lucille and Ruth, who after a series of abandonments, search for their own identities through the mother-daughter relationships they form and the homes that they connect with. While the characters within the two novels both undergo a search for self-identification, the formal structures of the two narratives are different. The Bluest Eye uses differing narrative perspectives, with the character, Claudia serving as the primary narrator. In contrast, Ruth narrates Housekeeping herself, offering an internal understanding and perspective. Overall, the different narration styles within The Bluest Eye and Housekeeping play a significant role in the way the audience follows the characters’ search for self-identification, as it is