In response to the assassination of martin luther king, she taught her elementary class about racism in an exercise in which students were labeled as inferior or superior based solely on their eye color. Blue eyed people get an extra five minutes of recess, and the two groups arent allowed to play with one another on the playground. In only 15 minutes with some 30 people jane elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society today with all its phenomena and feelings. A class divided the day after martin luther king, jr. Jane elliott the class of third graders are told that blueeyed people are smarter and better than browneyed people. She is known for her blue eyes brown eyes exercise. The blue eyed brown eyed exercise was originally developed by jane elliott for her all white third grade class in riceville, iowa at the time of dr. In only 15 minutes with some 30 people jane elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos. Jane elliott the class of third graders are told that blue eyed people are smarter and better than brown eyed people.
Blue eyed offers viewers a chance to watch a fulllength workshop with americas most dynamic diversity trainer, jane elliott. Watch blue eyed full movie in hd visit movie 162589 in only 15 minutes with some 30 people jane elliott manages to build up a. The browneyed children wear fabric collars so they can. Jane elliott was born on may 27, 1933 in riceville, mitchell county, iowa, usa. A class divide jane elliott, a teacher in a small, all. She told the kids that blue eyed children werent as good as brown eyed or green eyed. Aug 12, 2015 brown eye blue eye, jane elliott pascal mukuka. The blueeyed people get five extra minutes of recess, while the browneyed people have to stay in. One day in 1968, jane elliott, a teacher in a small, allwhite iowa town, divided her thirdgrade class into blue eyed and brown eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is a documentary about a very brave lesson an iowa 3rdgrade teacher gave to teach her.
Watch fulllength episodes of pbs documentary series frontline for free. A class divide jane elliott, a teacher in a small, allwhite iowa town, divided her thirdgrade class into blue eyed and brown eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. Watch the essential blueeyed online vimeo on demand. It wont help much to be prepared to face jane elliott. If you think you arent racist, watch this bluebrowneye. For over 30 years, jane elliott has been americas most highly acclaimed diversity trainer. Jane elliott, inspired to action by the assassination of dr. Jane elliott is an educator who began her career in a thirdgrade classroom in riceville, iowa, and over the past fifty years has become an educator of people of all ages all over the u. A more recent documentary about her work is blue eyed 1995.
Many trainers first heard of jane elliott s pathbreaking blue eyed brown eyed exercise from her two previous films, eye of the storm and a class divided, or from her appearances on the today, tonight, donahue and oprah shows. In this paper a summary of the article will be given and its critic based on the objectivity, accurency. Blue eyed is a 1996 documentary film by bertram verhaag in which jane elliott is teaching a workshop on racism. Jul 17, 20 jane elliot and the blueeyed children experiment july 17, 20 terynn boulton 22 comments on april 4, 1968, jane elliot, a third grade teacher in riceville, iowa, turned on her television set to learn more about martin luther kings assassination and was appalled at what she heard from a white reporter. The eye of the storm brown eyes blue eyes experiment. Blue eyed 1996 1h 30min documentary 21 november 1996 germany in only 15 minutes with some 30 people jane elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society today with all its phenomena and feelings. In april 1968, jane elliott was a third grade teacher in the small town of riceville, iowa. She says it lays bare the hidden truth about racism in white societies. Jane elliott brings her browneye blue eye diversity training to australia, where she explores racism between aboriginal and. As already known from the ill reputed milgram experiment, even participants who knew the rules are unable to remain uninvolved. When her local newspaper published compositions that the children had. A class divided watch s1985 e9 frontline pbs official.
Page mergeformat 4 december 2, 2011 understanding human diversity movie reaction the purpose of this paper is to reflect upon and react to the exercise blueeyedbrowneyed conducted by jane elliot in relation to the ideas of diversity, race, and privilege. Finally blue eyes are allowed into the room and are reprimanded by elliott for not being on time, making noise, acting arrogant, not learning well. The antiracism exercise that taught kids to be racist io9. On day one of the lesson, she told the blue eyed children they were smarter, nicer, neater and better. The essential blueeyed is a shortened training version of blue eyed, jane elliots nowfamous exercise in which she teaches people to discriminate against each other in a matter of minutes based on eye color. For other people named jane elliott, see jane elliott disambiguation.
In the film, elliot separates people according to their eye color. To evaluate how racial stereotypes affect young children, jane elliott divided her class between those with blue eyes and those with brown and gave blueeyed children preferential treatment. Feb 11, 20 for 40 years jane elliott a class divided has been running an exercise that has ignited controversy around the world. The results were so infamously spectacular that she continued to conduct the same. For 40 years jane elliott a class divided has been running an exercise that has ignited controversy around the world. Released 2012, blueeyed butcher stars sarapaxton, lisaedelstein, justinbruening, w. Elliott first developed the activity as an elementary school teacher looking for a creative way to address racism in her. Blueeyed butcher 2012 stream and watch online moviefone. Jane elliott wanted to teach her third graders an important lesson about race and equality. In only 15 minutes with some 30 people jane elliott manages to build up a realistic microcosmos of society. Stewarts article is about the effectiveness of jane elliots brown eyes blue eyes exercise in reducing stereotyping in college students. The blue eyed, brown eyed exercise which she devised to help her students to understand martin luther king, jr. An intensely unsettling look at exschoolteacher jane elliott s workshops opposing prejudice, ignorance and racism, in which she selects all the blue eyed people and has the others discriminate against them arbitrarily, to make them understand how blacks feel.
What jane elliott s famous experiment says about race 50 years on. Frontline a class divided season 1985 episode 9 pbs. She told the kids that blue eyed children werent as good as brown eyed or green eyed ones. Earlbrown the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 25 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. Jane elliott gained attention in 1968 through the blue eyes brown eyes exercise. The essential blueeyed is a shortened training version of blueeyed, jane elliots nowfamous exercise in which she teaches people to discriminate against each other in a matter of minutes based on eye color. Elliott originally designed the exercise in the 1960s as a way to illustrate the inhumanity, the irrationality, and the immorality of racism, a system that, as her experiment has shown, people quite readily endorse. Blue eyed is by far the most comprehensive and useful video on my work available. As already known from the ill reputed milgram experiment, even participants who knew the. The blue eyed will then be treated very poorly, and kept being told that they are stupid and not. Now jane elliott s critically award winning blue eyed is available in a more useful, more concise version concentrating all the drama and insight of the original into an even more powerful 30minute video. Its also the 50th anniversary of jane elliott s blue eyes brown eyes experiment. Jane elliott herself says the film is the most dramatic and complete summary of my 30 years experience helping organisations grapple with the difficulties and opportunities offered by a diverse workforce.
Her powerful and controversial blue eyed brown eyed exercise has had a lifechanging impact on thousands in schools, corporations and government. The blue eyedbrown eyed exercise was originally developed by jane elliott for her all white third grade class in riceville, iowa at the time of dr. Blue eyed is a powerful training video that helps people benefit from the experience of diversity trainer, jane elliott. Reaction to jane elliots blueeyed, browneyed experiment. She first conducted her famous exercise for her class on april 5, 1968, the day after martin luther king jr. The brown eyed people do not get to use the drinking. Jane elliott believes that white people wont act against racism until they have experienced it emotionally themselves,if only for a few hours in a controlled environment. Blue eyed video jane elliott blue eyed trainingabc.
Iowa author revisiting controversial blue eyesbrown eyes. California newsreel essential blue eyed transcript. Nov 02, 2019 this experiment was recorded and made into a documentary that was shared with many people, including a group of prisoners. One teacher responded, i thought it was about time somebody shot that sonofabitch. The brown or green eyecolor people are considered to be superior to the blue eyecolor people. Nov, 2015 the third film about the work of jane elliott, whose famous experiments have been documented in the eye of the storm and a class divided. This, now famous, exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority. Page mergeformat 4 december 2, 2011 understanding human diversity movie reaction the purpose of this paper is to reflect upon and react to the exercise blue eyed brown eyed conducted by jane elliot in relation to the ideas of diversity, race, and privilege. The experiment took place the day after kings assassination, at riceville community schools, where elliott. On the first day, the blueeyed children were told they were smarter, nicer, neater, and better than those. A program evaluation of jane elliott s blue eyedbrown eyes diversitytrainingexercise. Blue eyed diversity training dvd series with jane elliott.
Blue eyed 1996 full movie download full hd youtube. Mar 17, 2016 documentario da sociologa americana jane elliot sobre discriminacao racial. Introduction a class divided frontline pbs official site. Jane elliot and the blueeyed children experiment july 17, 20 terynn boulton 22 comments on april 4, 1968, jane elliot, a third grade teacher in riceville, iowa, turned on her television set to learn more about martin luther kings assassination and was appalled at what she heard from a white reporter. Blue eyes are not to be allowed to sit next to brown eyes. This experiment was recorded and made into a documentary that was shared with many people, including a group of prisoners. Apr 23, 2017 life after death experience nde with steve gardipee, vietnam war story one of the best ndes duration. She told them that people with brown eyes were better than people with blue eyes.
This film shows how in only a few minutes she can build up a realistic microcosm of society, where even participants who know the rules are unable to remain uninvolved. Jane elliott divided her elementary school class by eye color blue eyes and brown eyes. When elliott explained what she was doing in her class and why and how a number of shy and slow blue eyed children were benefiting at the expense of the brown eyes, there was disbelief and confusion. Elliott had all the blue eyed children line up at one side of the room. Jane elliott is an educator whose famous blue eyesbrown eyes exercise showed social psychologists and her students the impact that racism has on education and how social psychology can be. This video features jane elliott s famous, yet controversial, blue eyes brown eyes exercise. The complete blue eyed with jane elliott trainers toolchest. Jul 09, 2019 jane elliott, a teacher and antiracism activist, performed a direct experiment with the students in her classroom. In blue eyed, we join a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in kansas city blacks, hispanics, whites, women and men. Jane elliott s blue eyed brown eyed exercise is one or the most acclaimed and most widely used diversity training tool ever developed. Elliott s exercise, initiated in 1968 as a ground breaking experiment in antiracist training, has been featured on today, the tonight show, donahue, oprah, abc news and pbs frontline. A shorter version of jane elliott s life and her work combating prejudice.
In 2001 another documentary, entitled the angry eye, was released. And after, the experiment was actually performed by jane elliott on the correction department employees. One day in 1968, jane elliott, a teacher in a small, allwhite iowa town, divided her thirdgrade class into blue eyed and brown eyed groups and gave them a. Elliott first gained fame in 1968 when she launched an experiment following the assassination of dr.
The results were so infamously spectacular that she continued to conduct the same exercise, or. She first conducted her famous exercise for her class on april 5, 1968, the day. Even we, the spectators in blue eyed, cant get rid of this feeling of uneasiness, embarrassment, anxiety and utterly helpless hatred when she starts keeping people down, humiliating them, deriding them, incapacitating them. The blue eyed people get five extra minutes of recess, while the brown eyed people have to stay in. In response to the assassination of martin luther king, jr.
Blue eyed ojos azules 1996 jane elliot blue eyesbrown. Then we packaged it on one cassette with an all new 36 minute debriefing making what we call the essential blueeyed. In the group of adults, the brown eyed people were treated with superiority, while the blue eyed people were given a. Jane elliott believes that white people wont act against racism until they have experienced it emotionally themselves, if only for a few hours in a controlled environment. This classic program presents the longterm effects of racial stereotyping in schools and suggests how new approaches can make. The brown eyed children wear fabric collars so they can. Jan 01, 2003 elliott divided her class by eye color those with blue eyes and those with brown. Elliott asks brown eyes the problems they have with blue eyes, to give examples. Blueeyed people get an extra five minutes of recess, and the two groups arent allowed to play with one another on the playground.
Jane elliott brings her browneye blue eye diversity training to australia, where she explores racism between aboriginal and white australians. She is a writer, known for blue eyed 1996, the human zoo 2000 and the angry eye 2001. Documentario olhos azuis legendado jane elliott youtube. When elliott explained what she was doing in her class and why and how a number of shy and slow blueeyed children were benefiting at the expense of the browneyes, there was disbelief and confusion.
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