The piece I decided to re-read, talks about the concept of Gendered Play Limitations we acquire in childhood. The author, Rokojo, uses her experience with Legos in kindergarten and how the boys limit her vision of play by calling Legos “boy toys”. She also raises the question of the society and market supporting the Original Lego as “boy toys”and creating the line “Lego Friends” especially for girls, “setting a precedent that girls can't play with "normal" or "boy" Lego sets”. Furthermore, she raises an important point that limitation not only affect girls, but boys when they try to play pretend games. Limiting a play by gender is a historical heritage from a chauvinistic and commercial society, and by doing that we also limit the complete development of a child.

Name: Leslie Castrejon

Professor Jody Cohen

Educ. 270

Date: 10/10/14

Legal/Policy Analysis Paper

Identity: Unstable? Or Redefined?

Interesting piece by Carmen Papalia, who came to the bi-co as a Mellon Creative Resident in 2012. "Museums disable me as a viewer. Everything, from the artworks to the explanatory text, assumes a subject who uses their visual sense as a primary way of knowing, and I am a nonvisual learner who requires a different frame of reference."

http://blog.art21.org/2014/10/07/you-can-do-it-with-your-eyes-closed/#

       No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is an Act of Congress to close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind in their education (4). This act is more or less a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which emphasized equal opportunities and access to education and included the government's flagship aid program for disadvantage students of primary and secondary education.  Title I, a provision of the ESEA and the NCLB, is a program created by the United States Department of Education to fund and give priority to low-achieving schools and school districts that are in need of funding to improve their education standards.

HAPPY FALL BREAK! 

4 p.m. Sun, 10/12-8 p.m. Thurs, 10/16:

(ALL CLASSES)

CLASS TRIP TO CAMPHILL VILLAGE,
where we will be working, during the day, on projects of representation
(remembering Riva's description: "portraiture is now about the formation of a relationship")
and staying, @ night, nearby @ Camp Sankanac