Emily Burgis
Artifact #2:
Privilege
Artifact #1:
Minority Languages in CALL
Course: Special Topics in Education (CALL)
Date: Fall 2013
Instructor: Dr. Allyson Eamer
About the artifact:
This paper explores the lack of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) resources for minority languages. Specifically, it explores the challenges faced by language learners when their community does not support their language. It looks at how CALL resources can be used to help salvage, save and give new life to languages and, consequently, a culture.
Course: Social and Cultural Contexts for Education
Date: Winter 2012
Instructor: Dr. Allyson Eamer
About the artifact:
This paper focuses on the role of privilege, or lack there of. It addresses issues of identity and belonging. It is a lived experience paper that explores the ways in which I am privileged and focuses, primarily, on the ways in whichI experience a position of “otherness”. It explores the connection between identity and biology. One of the tasks for this assignment was to synthesize our learning.
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Course: Social and Cultural Contexts for Education
Date: Winter 2012
Instructor: Dr. Allyson Eamer
Co-author: Thava Thavarajah
About the artifact:
This presentation focuses on the way is which a heternormative education influences student learning. The presentation includes audio narration. It explains the concepts of heteronormativity, queer identity and identity construction using the articles “’Queerifying’ Gender: Heteronormativity in Early Childhood Education” and “Toward Queer Identity” as the basis. In this artifact my co-author and I explored how culture and sexual identity were connected and examined the role of privilege in sexual orientation.
Artifact #3:
Heteronormativity in ECE
Social and Cultural Contexts for Education
Social and cultural contexts are important for understanding how learners learn. The spheres of privlege that individuals inhabit is the capital they bring to education. What is in our "backpack" changes how and what we learn. Students are not empty heads that need filling, rather they are people with their own unique set of experiences that frame new experiences. As educators it is important to explore our own identity but also to consider how the context of learning changes how and what is learned. (Read more)
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