[Libs-Or] New Post on Lowrider Librarian: Living Under Racist Terrorism Impacts Learning

[Max Macias]

>
> A whole generation of BIPOC children in the US are being negatively
> impacted by the climate of fear that is being perpetrated upon them by the
> unrestrained white-supremacist movement and the government that supports
> this abomination.  Their mental health, their educations and their lives
> are all being stunted and slowed down by these racist attacks by settler
> colonists.
> According to Zaretta Hammond <https://crtandthebrain.com/about/> in her
> astounding work, "Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain,"  students
> should be able to feel safe and confident to be able to become a
> self-sufficient learner.  Becoming a self-sufficient learner means the
> student become involved in their own educational and personal development
> by reflection and by being warmly challenged by an instructor who has
> earned their trust.  A dependent learner is always dependent on someone
> outside themselves to take charge of their education and are thereby
> passive learners who often give up because they have come to depend upon
> help.  They have a fixed mindset and not a growth mindset.


You can read the rest here if you so desire:
https://lowriderlibrarian.blogspot.com/2019/08/living-under-racist-terrorism-impacts.html


Respectfully,

Max Macias
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