Posted on 09/23/2016 7:02:36 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
A campaign initiated by the National Association for Bilingual Education and the Santa Clara County Office of Education says a teacher who mispronounces a student’s name is causing a negative emotional state that can lead to poor academic success.
The campaign, titled “My Name, My Identity: A Declaration of Self,” says “Did you know that mispronouncing a student’s name negates the identity of the student? This can lead to anxiety and resentment which can hinder academic progress.”
Rita Kohli, an assistant professor of education at the University of California at Riverside, told NEA Today – the publication of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers’ union – that overlooking the mispronunciation of a student’s name is a “microaggression” that can sabotage the learning process.
“Names have incredible significance to families, with so much thought, meaning and culture woven into them,” Kohli says. “When the child enters school and teachers – consciously or not – mispronounce, disregard or change the name, they are in a sense disregarding the family and culture of the students as well.”
Kohli and Daniel Solorzano conducted a study in 2012 called “Teachers, Please Learn Our Names!: Racial Microagressions and the K-12 Classrooms.” They found that mispronouncing students’ names affected their social and emotional state.
“Students often felt shame, embarrassment and that their name was a burden,” Kohli says. “They often began to shy away from their language, culture and families.”
She adds that teachers who mispronounce a student’s name tend to do so because they find it challenging “to center cultures outside of their own.”
Fortunately for most, Kohli cuts some slack for teachers who mispronounce a student’s name on the first attempt.
Meanwhile, education blogger Jennifer Gonzalez refers to the mispronunciation of a student’s name as “a tiny act of bigotry.” She continues:
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Good Lord, raising a generation of wimpy people! “Don’t hurt my feelings”. BS Good Lord!!
It never ends.
Make that “Macro”.
So it won’t be cultural appropriation if professors pronounce other culture’s names correctly?
Better than Long Dong Silver or Big Dick Black.
FMCDH(BITS)
No matter what snowflakes think they are or imagine to be they always melt
runs: 1:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopdD9Cu-So
So is it a microagression when Japanese people cant pronounce western names?
My last name is relatively easy to spell but is almost always misspelled, mispronounced, etc.
I never liked it anyway.
When Napoleon conquered Europe and instituted Napoleonic law, one of the changes was that everyone had to register a new last name at the local center of government instead of the church. No more son of etc.
Many picked funny names in protest because they didn’t think napoleon would be around very long. Some of the dutch names are funny with meaning like outhouse, or shit house, stuck in pants, etc.
Luckily my ancestors picked bird song. But the funny thing is someone in the next county could pick the same name. So we have different tribes with the same name, not related at all.
I sold a house to a lady named Latrina. I saw a girls name in Mississippi named Onada. I hoped she never goes to Japan, it means “fart.”
Words mean something. Life and death are in the tongue.
No wonder this generation is so messed up!
Man oh man, have I been micro-aggression-ed all of my life because 95% of the folks I’ve met have mispronounced my Germanic last name.
This is a case of another person looking for a reason to get mad at others.
That word came to me as I was hitting “post”.
Or from under a kitchen sink:
Fonine
Dawn
Weendex
Mine either!
Its Still mangled all to hell and back.
Usually I try to help them out but sometimes I take a perverse delight in watching them struggle for a few moments.
But to honor your pain, I will clutch my pearls for you....
LOL
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