Author Archives: bannermn

Summary of Learning: A Closer Look at WGST

Posted on April 4, 2016

This is my final post for my Women’s and Gender Studies project. To help me visualize my learning I created a word cloud of my most common words and the focus of my posts. First of all, I want to … Continue reading →

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Teaching Intersectionality of Race and Gender in ELA A30

Posted on April 4, 2016

As I mentioned in my previous post, teaching with a Social Justice pedagogy is important to me. During my Internship, I had the opportunity to teach a sub-unit on First Nations peoples, specifically on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. We … Continue reading →

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Teaching Intersectionality of Race and Gender in ELA 20

Posted on April 3, 2016

Social Justice is an integral part of the Education program. We are constantly using critical lenses and theories to examine our positionality in society, and how that gives us privileges, especially for myself as a white, middle-class, heterosexual, Christian female. Since … Continue reading →

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Finding Beauty in Reality Television Through Cosmetic Surgery (Reflection)

Posted on April 1, 2016

Alice Marwick’s article titled “There’s a Beautiful Girl Under All of This: Performing Hegemonic Femininity in Reality Television” leaves a reader feeling that they have a better understanding of both reality television and why some people, typically women, feel they … Continue reading →

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Growing Up In a Sexualized World and What To Make of It

Posted on April 1, 2016

First of all, I know that this is a taboo subject. I debated long and hard before beginning this post. I started once and deleted it. I’m an educator. Anything I say can and will be used against me, read … Continue reading →

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Sex Ed or Sextortion, You Decide

Posted on April 1, 2016

Imagine you had the choice to educate others about their digital online presence. Now imagine that somewhere out there is a young girl who is being blackmailed to take photos of herself and send them to the predator or face … Continue reading →

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The Search for Gender Equity Regarding Literacy in the Classroom

Posted on April 1, 2016

  Amanda Keddie and Martin Mills wrote an article in 2007 that discussed concerns about teaching gender equity to students, titled “Teaching for Gender Justice.” I chose this article because I thought it had an interesting feature in that it … Continue reading →

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