Law & Order
1990
Search results
Jane Elliott (née Jennison; born November 30, 1933) is an American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, she became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class [a] on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 4
- 1968–present
- "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise
- American
Apr 5, 2024 · Jane Elliott will never forget her sister’s April 4, 1968, phone call telling her the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated. Elliott, like many people across the US, was shocked.
Jul 4, 2020 · The day after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jane Elliott carried out the “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” exercise in her classroom. Now, people are returning to her work.
Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors.
The day after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, the schoolteacher Jane Elliott scrapped her lesson plan — teaching her third graders the Sioux prayer about not ...
Sep 19, 2022 · The first thing that Jane Elliott did was divide the children into groups: those with blue eyes and those with brown eyes. This was intentional. “One of the ways Hitler decided who went into the gas chamber was eye color,” Elliott said in a later speech. “If you had a good German name, but you had brown eyes, they threw you into the gas ...
Jan 1, 2003 · Jane Elliott, the educator who created the blue-eye, brown-eye exercise, shares her experiences and insights on prejudice and discrimination in the U.S. and abroad. She discusses the impact of the exercise, the relevance of the issue, and the challenges of teaching and lecturing on diversity.
People also ask
Did Jane Elliott do a racism exercise?
Who is Jane Elliott?
Where did Jane Elliott live?
Is Jane Elliott still married?
