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Day 16 (February 25,2008)
M&M Simulation of Power and Privilege
In your daybook, reflect on the Activity using the questions below and post on your blog before Tuesday evening at 9pm.
Daybook Reflection Prompt
Whose perspective (no names, remember confidentiality!) did you assume? What privileges did he or she enjoy? Which did he or she not enjoy? How does it feel to have more M&Ms than your neighbors? Fewer? What emotions or behaviors may result from those feelings?
Also, what (if anything) interested you about the activity? What surprised you? Were you uncomfortable? Why or why not?
How would you restructure or create your own simulation of power and privilege?
How can (or can) your service-learning experience and affiliation with your community partner add more M&Ms to their napkins or privileges to other community members' lives?
- Using Box 12 from Fieldworking, pg. 136, each student should fill in one earned and one unearned privilege on the whiteboard.
- Discussion of privileges.
- Class will rank unearned privileges in order of their significance in American culture.
- Visualize one member of the service-learning community that you have observed and/or interacted with. If you haven't completed any observations, think back to a previous experience volunteering or working in an unfamiliar subculture.
5. For that individual, describe (or assume) the following: gender, age, nationality ,education, mental health, physical health, mobility, primary language, economic status, religion, sexual orientation, skin color, race or ethnicity, access to technology, transportation, social or financial support, freedom of religion or speech, privacy
6. When prompted, open your packet of M&M’s and place one M&M on your napkin for each privilege your community member possesses.
7. Count the privileges your individual possesses. Look around the room at others’ napkins and compare the M&M privileges of those around you. 6. When prompted, open your packet of M&M’s and place one M&M on your napkin for each privilege your community member possesses.
In your daybook, reflect on the Activity using the questions below and post on your blog before Tuesday evening at 9pm.
Daybook Reflection Prompt
Whose perspective (no names, remember confidentiality!) did you assume? What privileges did he or she enjoy? Which did he or she not enjoy? How does it feel to have more M&Ms than your neighbors? Fewer? What emotions or behaviors may result from those feelings?
Also, what (if anything) interested you about the activity? What surprised you? Were you uncomfortable? Why or why not?
How would you restructure or create your own simulation of power and privilege?
How can (or can) your service-learning experience and affiliation with your community partner add more M&Ms to their napkins or privileges to other community members' lives?
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