Why We Need Ethnic Studies in High School | Hannah Gedion | TEDxManhattanBeach
Reflecting on her own experiences learning through a single perspective, high school senior Hannah Gedion challenges educators to equip their students with “perspective seeking skills” by incorporating a diversity of voices and perspectives into their classrooms. Hannah Gedion is a senior at Mira Costa High School. Noticing a lack of diversity in texts at her school, Hannah discovered ethnic studies and realized the courses would provide students with valuable perspectives that had previously been withheld. She believes that studying different cultures and ethnicities makes students global citizens who form meaningful relationships and empathetic connections with all kinds of people. Often the only African American in the classroom, Hannah hopes to eliminate the numerous insensitive, ignorant or misinformed comments she has endured by offering new ways to learn about other cultures and ethnicities.
Hannah founded the Manhattan Beach Unified School District Chapter of Diversify Our Narrative. She is a member of the Equity, Diversity, Social Justice, and Inclusion Committee, which works under the MBUSD school board to provide input and feedback to create a more inclusive environment in Manhattan Beach schools. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
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Brilliant! Hannah, you give me hope for our collective future and I am so proud of your accomplishment! 🌺💗
Hannah is a remarkable young woman 💫 I’m proud to have known her and her family since she was a kinder at Robinson. I’ve been so emotional as the kids I’ve seen grow up will be off to college soon. They are going to rock the world in such good and inspiring ways ❤️
Dear Hannah, I want to congratulate you on your amazing talk! I am so so proud of you and know you will do amazing things in life💗 Love your aunty Emi!
My name is Alexander Delgado. I learned that ethnic studies are important it can be empowering to some groups.
Go Hannah! Great talk and such important work you are doing. Grateful for your ongoing contributions to MB ❤️
So impactful 😍😍 your efforts and successes are an inspiration to us all!
Very well done on such an important topic!
I went to North High in torrance, im still filling in the gap taking my FIRST college ethics studies class!
So proud of you hannah
Outstanding speaker! We are so proud of you. Love, Grandma
Great job Hannah! 👍🏾
Yes Hannah!!!
Thank You Hannah ❤ We need more people of color than ever right now stand up and study for basic ethnic studies for all❤
Great presentation. 100% agree. The only thing I would change is your Bruce Beach photo. The one with the group of people is not Bruce's Beach it's Lake Elsinore. Proud to have you as a South Bay resident. Tony Trutanich Jr
I would be interested in learning from different perspectives. I remember in high school in Texas, we were learning about the Alamo and the teacher was going on and on about how terrible it was and how great and good the defenders were. I honestly wasnt paying very close attention and i believe i was smiling at a classmate who was whispering something unrelated to me. The teacher was annoyed at me and stopped the lecture to ask if i thought the tragedy of the Alamo was funny. I replied "No" and he asked if i thought it was a tragedy and i, again, said "No" and he asked why. I replied "Because the Mexicans won" (I am Mexican-American). I dont remember the entire conversation but i remember thinking "How did my ancestors play into this story?" The issue was probably a lot more complicated than what history tells us. For instance, there were "Tejanos" who also sided with the Texans against the Mexican Army at the Battle of the Alamo. The actual reasons may be lost to history. Also, there were a number of slaves who survived and were spared by the Mexican Army since the Mexicans were opposed to slavery. The history is deep and complicated. When revisited...most events in history can evoke different perspectives since the issues were almost always very complex
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Narrative of Rose of Texas is not entirely true of what the schools teach.
Such a awesome speech 🖤
THATS MY BESTIE!!!
My school intergrated ethnic studies this year. Now I have 8 periods
PERIODDDDDDDD
why does this have such little views
"...beauty of having these talks is the controversy..." Notice where Ms. Gedion learned this - it wasn't in a classroom. Sadly, too many of our classrooms are devoid of any real critical analysis that causes students to really engage in controversial topics. Too many teachers are sheltered from the realities of oppression and are comfortable with the status quo, despite their otherwise heroic efforts, and so lack the sense of absolute urgency needed to be engaged in activism themselves much less to help youth become the change makers that they should be or to work to change that status quo. Also, liberators school reform must go way beyond a "diverse curriculum." It must be a complete pedagogical overhaul. As many radical scholars have pointed out, public schools were never designed for the liberation of the working class - so it's not surprising that most fail to work toward that end. But that's not to say we can't change that.