These words are inequitable because
one word has to do with school and the other has to do with farming. Not all students know what the word silo
means or has any experiences with a silo compared to all the students who are
in class so have all had professors.
Also the two do not really connect in any way.
He is
attributing his failure to him being different because he is of a different
race. In his eyes he believes that his
teacher hates him because he does not act white, but it is probably because of
some of the word choices that he uses at home which are considered to be
acceptable, but not in the school setting.
It is
challenged because her whole life she has being talking in a certain way which
is acceptable from where she comes from.
However she is not speaking proper grammar which will be hard for her to
lose the tendency to use her pronunciation over the proper way to pronounce
words. This is true with any habit, but
it is possible with practice. The reason
she would have more trouble is because all of the words that she would come up
with for writing are in her long term memory and it is hard to forget those
words or phrases and learn new proper ones.
I think the word professor could be inequitable as well. It seems here you are thinking of a student in college who would obviously have professors. If you think of a student in elementary school he or she may not have ever heard of a professor or even what it means. This could depend on whether that student has plans to go to college or not. If a student does not want to go to college he or she will probably not know much about college and there for would not know what a professor is.
ReplyDeleteNice point, Cheri. I was going to point that out as well.
ReplyDeleteDo you think he's attributing his failure to his own characteristics or his teacher's judgement of him? It makes a difference, since in attribution theory, you characterize things by whether they are internal/external, stable/unstable, controllable/uncontrollable. Based on those categories, what is he attributing his failure? (be able to answer that)
Last note, be careful in calling things 'proper' language or the 'proper' way of speaking. This privileges academic english, which may make the student feel her natural language is less valued or acceptable. It may be true that academic english is required for academic success, but it is an additional dialect to learn not something that is to replace the first.
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