Book and Article Critique
Sharmat M. and Barton, B. (1990). Gila monsters meet you at the airport. USA: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Sharmat M. and Barton in their book, “Gila Monsters Meet You at The Airport” discusses that the significant way to dismiss unknown fears is to find out the reality about somebody or something. This article analyses a boy in New York City who has various preconceived thoughts about living in the West, This ideas makes him extremely apprehensive as regards the family’s move there. He discovered presently of a Gila monster and other things as regards to West when he brings in a biologist taking viewers on an excursion of Arizona desert describing the animal and plant life there. The boy said, "I live at 165 East 95th Street, New York City, and I'm going to stay here forever," This shows that his fears is getting worse. However, his family is moving to West leaving him with minimal options other than to face his fears. He fears that in West, no one plays baseball since he believes they are busy chasing buffaloes, and he thinks one has to ride to school by horse even if you have no idea how to do it. He also fears that there is no sitting down because cactus might be everywhere. He eventually knows that it will be terrible.
In the book, I agree with his argument that the best way of stopping fear is to deal with the actual cause by directly interacting with it. This needs the boy to accept his situation and try as much as he can to deal with it.
Sharmat has vast knowledge of experience has she went to through various institutions of learning before graduating with degree in merchandising. After that, she had been working for different departments hence, her work are deeply studied and adequate for other scholars to look at them. Barton on the other hand, is an author and illustrator of different books. There combination in writing this book therefore is well set and has sufficient information for associated study.
Murray, O. (2010). A mindfulness to transcend pre-service lip-service: A call for K-12 schools to invest in social justice education. Multicultural education, p.48-50.
The author of this article Murray (2010) in his article discusses mainly of the challenges that children face nowadays because of diversity. He indicates that this perspective is even made more difficult by a number of them being marginalized. He stressed that the students’ populations persist to be signified by diversity whereas over 90% of those in teacher training schedules are largely the white, middle class, and those coming from non-urban background. He however, adds that understanding this inconsistency is fundamental for participants of teaching society to face the rooted psychological and social effects of the –isms, which influence schools and community.
The article then moves ahead to discuss on social justice within the community where it depicts how institutions apply mechanisms to social justice education, which motivates learners and trainers. This should be considered in both advantaged and target areas to pull apart subjugation and develop a highly socially just future. The author emphasized on the need for the school administration and trainers dedicated to teaching should take leadership function to face the issues, which are aligned to this work. He insists that the first feature for such is the capacity to create time for and persist, periods of hardships.
The article also discusses on other areas of school environment such as school-wide discourse. Under this, the author tries to highlight the need for trainers to create awareness of their views and initiate how they may be increased to reduce discrimination. He affirms that school-wide discourse should concentrate on questions pertaining to the way instructional activities, materials, curriculum choices, and classroom schedules links to students’ family, society, and traditional roots.
The other thing the others talks of is the creation of equity terms that may be utilized within the marginalized areas. The article is conclusive as it indicates that trainers need to work on problems of social justice to develop equity leadership team (ELT). The author indicates that an equity team may venture the importance and respect for varied cultures illustrated in the schedule through inquiries since ELT help schools in changing discriminations to coherent and transparent bodies.
The author of this article is a qualified individual with vast knowledge in research education. That is why he never missed to discuss on how the school environment can interact with the society. This summarizes the article as the school brings some worth to the society. Here the community according to the author includes the families, parents, neighboring institutions, and businesses. All these are processes that need constant undertaking of approaches to ensure smooth transition of students to other institutions of learning. The author has therefore, not left out the significance of embracing change and technology since they are the driving force for community growth.
References:
Murray, O. (2010). A mindfulness to transcend pre-service lip-service: A call for K-12 schools to
invest in social justice education. Multicultural education, p.48-50.
Waber B. (1991). Ira Says Goodbye: Family and Relationships, Houghton: Mifflin Harcourt
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