Week 3_Kathryn Garcia_A02

Reading:

“Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation of Hmong Americans”

Visual Addition:

https://www.equityalliancemn.org/uploads/7/4/4/0/74401303/editor/image_1.png?1512673533

Reference:

Saddler, S. (2017, December). Diversity in Children's Books 2015 [Digital image]. Retrieved January 19, 2019, from https://www.equityalliancemn.org/racial-bias-and-early-childhood-education-what-can-we-do.html

Question:

            You discuss that your goal is to awaken your students to the miseducation that they have received. How would recommend to students to approach this matter, because it’s difficult to distinguish whether the content is truly biased or if we are being to critical of the content being taught.

Entry:

            This week’s topic mainly focused on the importance of education on our culture and history as Asian Americans. The idea of privileged oppressed was introduced in class. We discussed how we as Asian Americans are educated to believe we are a model minority, but it reality we are being conned. We are still being discriminated whether we choose to see it or not. The image provided shows how little representation there is of Asian Americans. Even if there were to be Asian representation in America’s education, it is often distorted or very short. In the reading I chose, Prof. Mouavangsou discusses her own awakening to the miseducation of her history she received growing up. I agree with her side as I, too, believe that education is biased and misguided. For example, in high school I remember one of my history textbook was created in the U.S. I was reading a portion about how the U.S. was losing a war, however, I noticed that the chapter was very small. But when there was portion of the textbook talking about the U.S.’s win in a war, there were many pages about it. My teacher at the time brought this up and told us that because the textbook was made in the U.S., the creators want it so that the U.S. is seen as a great country and that we always win. This is truly a misguidance as the U.S. had many downfalls, but the education system within America is choosing to hinder that information from being taught as it will show a dark past for America. I was lucky to have a teacher to have understood this concept of biased education, however, some students are not so lucky. Like what Prof. Mouavangsou writes in her paper, students need to be awakened or else they will grow throughout life with a distorted version of their history.