Evaluation:
Published: 28.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'A Class Divided', 1.
Extract

In the video "A Class Divided", Jane Elliot a teacher from Riceville, Iowa engages her third grade class into a brown eyed/blue eyed experiment. The experiment is to help the children to understand about prejudice and discrimination. The same experiment was also used a couple of years later with adults.
In the brown eyed/blue eyed experiment Jane Elliot told her third graders with blue eyes that they were better than the brown-eyed children. The brown-eyed children had to wear collars so that they could tell each group apart from a distance. Elliot told the blue eyed children that they wer…

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