Victim to Victor

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Victim to Victor

• Annual Forum for Social Justice
• March 29, 2003
• South Hill Business School

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Theme

• Are you a Victim or Victor of Racism, Social
  Injustice, Discrimination and/or the Crimes?

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History of Victim to Victor Series

• Historical backgrounds of this forum A Youth
  Forum was implemented in 1999 to help our youth
  cope with discrimination
• Mentors and community leaders come together to
  build bridges with youth

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TEACHING TO SEE THE VISION
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References of Victors
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Continuum of Change

• The topic of the discussion is Respecting
  Others, the specific focus is on the continuum
  of change and the importance of diversity
  awareness and how to facilitate positive change.
  Celebrating our differences and embracing
  dialogue about differences is the key.

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Panel discussion
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• Victims to Victors in Literature
• Critical Pedagogy

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Nurturing Democracy with Literature

• Literacy would be linked to developing
• particular skills and knowledge that offer
• students a range of subject positions that
• would be necessary for realizing democratic
• public life (Brady, 142).

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Victims and Victors in History-Historical web of
connection-

• Arguably, the issues that framed the social
  concerns of students of the sixties have
  resurfaced. In their commitment to educational
  and social equity and the opportunity to shape
  campus life, we once again are witnessing a
  resurgence of civil rights concerns and a push
  for more participatory forms of institutional
  governance.

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• The future is not a donation it exists as a
  necessity of history and implies its continuity.
  History has not died, nor has it metamorphosed
  into a make-believe mirage. Pedagogy of Heart 42.

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Victims and Victors in Society

• One of my goals is to develop structures to that
  community members and agenices can take their own
  initiative and chart their own course thus
  eliminating the need for our continued presence
  and expertise. In other words, our success in
  creating structures so that community members
  empower themselves rests on the degree to which
  our presence and expertise in the community are
  no longer necessary because community members
  have acquired their own expertise, thus
  preventing a type of neocolonialism. Macedo xv

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Victors not Victims any more
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My Oath
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Message of Paulo Freire

• A sense of agency and social action
• Our future
• Our dream
• Our youth

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Child experience and Hope

• During that afternoon while reading a letter I
  had received from Recife I all of a sudden,
  like magic- recoiled into time and almost saw
  myself again as a child, in my backyard full of
  trees, learning to read with the help of my
  mother rand father, writing phrases and words in
  the ground shaded by the mango trees. Pedagogy of
  Heart 38

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Teach me to see the Vision
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Evaluation

• I learned a lot about the different aspects of
  diversity and now they all come together.
  Leslie
• It changed my views on the aspect of racism and
  how it just doesn't affect one group of people.
  Leslie
• The history! Greek and Roman history and how it
  pertains to the USA. Ciara
• It changed my views that everyone has problems
  and not just blacks. Jaleesa
• How history is an important factor to our future.
  Unnamed person

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Multiple dimensions of social action
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A Bus Story
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Passionate Learning
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Continuum of Change
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