Salem

Here is a link to a picture of Salem College, which is a very old, historical, all women's college which my mother attended/is currently attending classes (fitting because this is "Mother's Day.") Salem College is a part of Old Salem which was founded by Moravians. These were my ancestors on my mother's side. They lived in religious communities and had schools for men and women. They structured a society in which unmarried women could be economically self-sufficient, which was unusual at that time.

At the IRA, one of her professors gave a talk on ELL. These are some notes I took down in my notebook:

A Word of Caution:

Classrooms are—
1) complex social settings that can be guilty of “reproducing existing inequalities” (Bourdieu, 1977).
2) Replete with a “culture of power” with rules that reflect the rule of the culture of those who have the power. (Delpit, 1988).

Peer Status:
1)The most popular among his peers becomes the Event Captain.
2) Who the student saw as popular or not popular in the class only aligned with what the teacher said 30% of the time. Who she thought was friends with who was only accurate part of the time.

Identity:
--A constructive process that is fragmented, contradictory and context dependent
--A consequence of interaction between people; a process that is constructed in relation to the perceptions of others