Great Questions!

[David Ojeda]

Zoey,

I love the thought-provoking questions on gender (e.g. Why were men hunters and women gatherers?) you would ask your students! Throughout the seminar, I wondered how to properly incorporate the content we covered with my incoming 6th-graders who perhaps have not thought about or discussed gender. Some of the seminar’s content easily ties in with what we cover (Confucianism and Daoism in Social Studies; The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars in both Social Studies and English). It would be great if the class and I are able to maturely explore the gender roles that are found in these texts and discuss their connections to us in a serious manner.

In regards to your final question, I think it is best to normalize equality; however, voices have been marginalized for too long. I fear that by not addressing or acknowledging these voices, we continue to marginalize them, repeating the same mistakes from the past.