About the Blue-eyes/Brown-eyes exercise in discrimination.
Essential skills teachers need to expose prejudice and bigotry to students.
What is race.
How education can prepare students to identify and dismantle discrimination.
How our educational system contributes to discrimination.
JANE ELLIOT
Jane Elliott is a gifted educator and author of A Collar in My Pocket, whose lesson in discrimination is featured in the documentary film, The Eye of the Storm. In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ Exercise in Discrimination. This now famous exercise labels a participant as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority. Everyone exposed to Jane Elliott’s work, be it through a lecture, workshop, or video, is dramatically impacted and learns a valuable lesson in discrimination.