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Group Members: Harrison Jutras, Ivan Borsenco, Emily Remillard, Paige Our two wikipedia topics will be the following:

1. Deaf Education in Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_deaf_education_in_Africa

2. Stereotypes in the movies film study journals, magazine, semi pro blog, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype

Our group has found some solid secondary sources on the first topic, but needs to do some more searching on the second.

We will be assigning two group members to the first topic and two group members to the second topic. From there, we will each be responsible for looking over the existing material on the wikipedia page, evaluate it, and see where we can make substantial contributions.

Next Tuesday, we will be meeting to discuss this process further, but with everyones crazy schedules this week and the holiday this weekend, this week has been difficult to make further progress on the topic.

We look forward to meeting Tuesday and making a more concrete plan on how we want to distribute the workload for this project.


 * Great! It's an ambitious project, for sure. Deaf education in Africa seems like an impossibly large topic... It covers a whole continent! Be sure that your contributions aren't talking about "Africa" as a single thing, but rather that name specific communities (which may or may not be similar to others). One of the most famous sign language and deaf culture cases comes from Nicaragua. A simply google search will pull up some interesting stuff. Drewdeecopp (talk) 21:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Additions:

Stereotypes (contemporary educator’s perspective)Bold text

Wikipedia Pages to Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype

Often educators and teachers are using resources that are stereotypical and are not reflective of cultural diversity. The danger in stereotypes that many people substitute that of observation and make a judgement based on them. We would like add a paragraph on contemporary educational perspective on this issue and the role of stereotypes in education. We want to emphasize the role of the teacher in raising awareness of stereotype threat and (possibly) briefly describe common strategies to achieve that.


 * Here, I highly suggest drawing on the articles in the handout I provided. They are very credible sources. Drewdeecopp (talk) 21:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Stereotypes in the movies

Another extension of the above idea is to add more information about stereotypes in the media and in the movies. Nowadays, when sources of information are mostly digital, the exploitation of stereotype “fears” is a common plays. We can target in our research how Hollywood movies create and abuse cultural stereotypes at the same time promoting western way of living.

Sources:

Cohen, G. L., Purdie-Vaughns, V., Garcia, J. (2012). An identity threat perspective on intervention. (http://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/glc ) Garcia, J., & Cohen, G. L. (in press). A social-psychological approach to educational intervention. (http://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/glc ) Steele, C. M. (2010). Whistling Vivaldi: And other clues how stereotypes affect us. Steele, D. M. (2012). Creating identity safe classrooms. Walton, G. M., Spencer, S. J., & Erman, S. (in press). Affirmative meritocracy. (http://www.stanford.edu/~gwalton/home/Publications.html). Yeager, D. S., & Walton, G. M. (2011). Social-psychological interventions in education: They’re not magic. (http://www.stanford.edu/~gwalton/home/Publications.html ).

More sources: S.I. Hayakawa, Recognizing stereotypes as substitutes for thought (http://www.jstor.org/stable/42581302 ) R. H. Taylor, P. Lotsee, Using information literacy to promote critical thinking, (https://search.proquest.com/openview/c9296b8ae9e329bdded001fbbe51f7a4/1 ) 9. Latino Images in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZmOxDAAAQBAJ&oi ) 10. Stereotypes of Arab and Arab-Americans presented in Hollywood movies released during 1994 to 2000. ( https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1003/ )

Idea/Concept of School (with a focus on Africa)

The wikipedia page that describes levels of education equivalent to (an american) school that are common worldwide is missing the African continent. We would like to add information about the schooling process and educational institutions that are prevalent in African countries. We aim to research this topic and write about the meaning given to the notion of “school” and the terms “schooling” is by the local african communities, i.e. what is their perspective on this notion and how much it is valued by the society.

Wikipedia Pages to Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School#Regional_terms

Sources:


 * Is this a third topic? If you go in this direction, look for work by Robert Serpell. Drewdeecopp (talk) 21:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Add clear title names of the articles (see Nudge theory example!)

http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.unh.edu/stable/pdf/26332012.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A069ab27cd52de32ea4c7f4f162371d4d http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.unh.edu/stable/pdf/26235087.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A4f9ea7c3407dc79ffe43fba19537f372 http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.unh.edu/stable/pdf/29727865.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A16b111970eb6e462b203e90c1b523aa0 http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.unh.edu/stable/pdf/25678274.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A9ee21276457f485524e54e97160b771f http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.unh.edu/stable/pdf/2770223.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Ad7b480608dd4fd3228eca66958acde6d