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Toys are tools used for children’s entertainment and development, however they also serve to shape a child’s understanding of societal norms. The toy industry has marketed gender based toys, which has reinforced stereotypical ideas about the interests and roles of each gender. Have you ever thought about the differences between the “boy aisle” and the…Continue Reading Gender Based Toys

Immigrant Children in the United States  “School classrooms frequently become sites of cultural conflict between immigrant pupils and native born teachers, who attached little value to cultural diversity and sought to transform immigrant children into “little citizens” by forbidding them to speak their native language” “Urban school systems sought to educate children in English as…Continue Reading Gallery 105D Side Exhibition

Forced Assimilation Through the Next Generation The main goal for Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which was founded by Captain Richard Henry Pratt in 1879, was “believing that placing Indian students in white families where they will learn a trade will help give them “independence, self-reliance and better English-speaking.” At the school, students were forced to…Continue Reading Gallery 104D Side Exhibition

Group D has to create the Side Exhibition by the end of Lesson 4. What is age-appropriate for children? Childhood is often associated with the term innocence. When viewing children as innocent beings, adults are stating that children need to be protected and censored from realities of the world. In censoring the material that children…Continue Reading Gallery 103D Side Exhibition