Kalamazoo Gazette: Elementary students learn advanced theories
Students at El Sol Elementary School in the Kalamazoo Public Schools are learning graduate-level social theories on “cultural humility and transformative complicity” and how to apply them to life, reports the Kalamazoo Gazette.
They are learning it from a board game called “Go.” Students from the Academy of the Americas in Detroit taught the game to Kalamazoo children and adults.
Excerpt: The idea is that having students teach others the rules of the game promotes the values of mutual learning and teaching, plus respect and humility — values that translate to reducing violence through the acknowledgement of personal worth and cultural validation, researchers say. “Go is more than a game of strategy, it is a way of life. It connects people and communities together,” said Oscar Hernández, a Academy of the Americas student and a Go Cultural ambassador.
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