Our group has just completed our planned fun night at Madison Elementary on October 10th which took place from 6:30 till 8:00. We all participated in different activities during the fun night with the diverse groups of children present. We interacted with these children by participating in the many activities that we had planned.Many of us feel that parental influence on the child determines many of the child’s behavior choices in various situations. For example, there was one child with curly hair and freckles that agitated many of the group members by being disrespectful of our authority. Towards the end of the night we saw the child’s mother scolding him in such a way that was disrespectful to the child and also showed her immaturity as a parent. It was evident that the actions portrayed by the mother were directly demonstrated through her son’s behavior. We feel this is a large contributor of child diversity. There were children with the opposite actions that were directly influenced by their parent’s actions as well. Their parents were calm, caring and respectful so in return the child acted in a respectful way towards us and other children.
Some ideas that we have discussed since the last blog have included the ethics of care as described in our book as stressing relationships , nurturing, and the actual human circumstance in which people find themselves. We feel this applies to our project because we can see the different ways that parents interact with their children. The way the parents care for their child effects the child’s view towards relationships with other adults, authority figures, and close peers. This is based off of the parents we saw interact with their children at family fun night.
The second term we have used to analyze our experience at the Madison fun night was Dialogical Ethics. Dialogical ethics, is defined in our book as a system in which ethics can be judged by the attitudes and behaviors demonstrated by each participant in a communication transaction. For instance; we used our previous experience dealing with children and used that in order to prepare the activities and assignments. Our previous experience helped us to create ethical ways of dealing with children of diverse backgrounds.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/
http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/ethics/virtthry.htm
(We feel that our picture is applicable to our blog in that it shows children of different cultures interacting with one another in a positive way.)
