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The Stanford Prison Experiment comes to mind.
I think I had to read Lord of the Flies as a high school freshman, and I haven't read it since. Allison,I would bet that your students will remember this for the rest of their lives, as I have.
But there's a greater lesson, if you can view it in real terms. I think it's interesting that a student social worker joined the looters during the recent London riots. What I hope she takes away from the experience is an understanding that she is not really so different from the people she'll eventually be helping. That will make her incredibly more effective than someone who helps out of pity or charity, and certainly more than people who condescend. It was a lesson for her. I hope she doesn't view it as a failure because it wasn't. It was a ticket to "insight" and "understanding."
Will--My students and I actually spend the day talking about the Stanford Prison Experiment during class!
Nell, we do discuss many real world examples of moob mentality and why people participate and what it means about them as people (good person? bad person? etc). Your example of the social worker in the London Riots is great, and something I will for sure add to our discussion.In the past we've talked a great deal about Nazi Germany and racism in the South (as extreme examples) as well as reading articles about mobs/riots from current newspapers.We've certainly never ignored the real world implications. Thanks for the new idea to add.
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Aug 21, 2011 09:15AM
The Stanford Prison Experiment comes to mind.
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I think I had to read Lord of the Flies as a high school freshman, and I haven't read it since. Allison,I would bet that your students will remember this for the rest of their lives, as I have. But there's a greater lesson, if you can view it in real terms. I think it's interesting that a student social worker joined the looters during the recent London riots. What I hope she takes away from the experience is an understanding that she is not really so different from the people she'll eventually be helping. That will make her incredibly more effective than someone who helps out of pity or charity, and certainly more than people who condescend. It was a lesson for her. I hope she doesn't view it as a failure because it wasn't. It was a ticket to "insight" and "understanding."
Will--My students and I actually spend the day talking about the Stanford Prison Experiment during class!Nell, we do discuss many real world examples of moob mentality and why people participate and what it means about them as people (good person? bad person? etc). Your example of the social worker in the London Riots is great, and something I will for sure add to our discussion.In the past we've talked a great deal about Nazi Germany and racism in the South (as extreme examples) as well as reading articles about mobs/riots from current newspapers.We've certainly never ignored the real world implications. Thanks for the new idea to add.
