Reflection for 6. 3 and 6. 13

6.3
I looked at my 4th graders Regions Adventure in Time book to find the results of the race and gender tally. First of all I found that there were no Arab Americans that were presented within this book. Other than that I at least found one of each other category in the table including: Asian American, African American, Latino American, American Indian, white American, ambiguous group, mixed group, and disabled American. The most I found was of white males, although there were many white females shown. Out of the genders there were definitely more males that were shown than females. I was surprised to only find two disabled people (male and female) within the entire book.
Here is the tally from the book that I flipped through:
Asian Americans: 4 male, 3 female
African Americans: 18 male, 13 female
Latino Americans:7 male, 7 female
American Indians: 6 male, 4 female
White Americans: 52 males, 21 females
Ambiguous: 3 males
Mixed group: 7 males, 3 females
Disables Americans: 1 male, 1 female

Some of the people shown throughout this book were Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, BB King, and Bill Clinton.

6.13
Here is the site that I used http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/curriculum/steps.html

The person who produced this website was Paul Gorski, he is affiliated with Edchange.org.
This website is intended to be used as a resource for teachers to take a look at. It explains a certain process that other teachers have used in the past to incorporate multicultural curriculum into their classrooms. It shows a slow 5 stage process of how to incorporate different multicultural ideas these include: curriculum of the mainstream, heroes and holidays, integration, structural reform, and multicultural, social action and awareness.
The biases that the developers have are they think that the textbooks create a big gap in the multicultural education and that there are no good things about textbooks because they do not typically represent every culture, and that they leave out voice, and experiences of non-dominant individuals. This website also gives off the feeling that their strategy is the best way to go about incorporating multicultural ed into the classrooms.
The view of the world that this site tends to support is one that thinks that the classroom needs to be more well equipped with better multicultural teachings. They promote the view that the classrooms curriculum needs to be drastically reformed. They think that there is not enough out there and that each classroom no matter how diverse it is, needs to have more of this type of education. They also clearly state that in the process of changing the classroom they also want to change society towards social justice and equity.
The view that this site undermines or ignores is the one where people think that there is already enough multicultural ed in the classrooms, or the one that thinks it is not necessary to teach it. This site clearly states that the classrooms do not incorporate enough multicultural ed and that this should change so that children can have a better education as well as have their voice and ideas heard within the classroom.