Blue eyes brown eyes exercise creator jane elliott visits clarkson university. A class divided documentary is a film that gives you a saddening glimpse into the consequences of judgemental teaching. She had separated them by making one eye group inferior to the other making. She told the kids that blueeyed children werent as good as browneyed or greeneyed ones. This video features jane elliotts famous, yet controversial, blue eyes brown eyes exercise.
Hazel eyes this color combination is a mix of green and brown eyes. Elliott conducted a field experiment where she separated people based on their eye colour, to see if they would bully each other. She first conducted her famous exercise for her class on april 5, 1968, the day after martin luther king jr. The act of treating students differently was obviously a metaphor for the social decisions made on a larger level. Social psychology is an empirical science, which gives us the opportunity to study the causes and reactions of social. She also made the brown eyed students put construction paper armbands on the blue eyed students. Jane elliott, a teacher and antiracism activist, performed a direct experiment with the students in her classroom. Blue eyed vs brown eyed experiment by bree elliott on prezi. In this video i will be talking about jane elliotts experiment with third grader in which she used the power of education to confront racial prejudices after martin. On day one of the lesson, she told the blueeyed children they were smarter, nicer, neater and better than those with brown eyes.
Brown eyes and blue eyes study this is the video of a study of social psychology by mrs. In response to the assassination of martin luther king, jr. Hazel eyes are most common in people of european descent. One group experienced prejudice and discrimination for several days and then became the discriminators for several days.
Testing to demonstrate to the children how societal attitudes and mistreatments can affect ones performance, she tested her third graders performances using a. 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. If you think youre past racism, think of all the other groups that are still marginalized in society. 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. Brown eyes, blue eyes is the name often given to an antidiscrimination experiment that was carried out in america in 1968.
The antiracism exercise that taught kids to be racist io9. I had brown eyes so i got to sit at my desk and use a pencil while the kids with eyes of different colors had to sit on the floor and use broken pieces of crayon. In this video i will be talking about jane elliotts experiment with third grader in which she used the power of education to confront racial. On the morning of april 5, 1968, jane elliott was teaching third grade in the small iowa town of riceville. Jane elliotts brown eyes, blue eyes experiment from 1970. My friend marjorie had blue eyes so she was one of the kids on the floor. Female student has a breakdown during a blueeyed vs browneyed experiment updated duration. Browneyed people have more of that chemical in their eyes, so browneyed people are better than those with blue eyes, elliott said. Blue eyesbrown eyes teacher says mlks legacy is just as relevant today.
This is a story produced for the national tv program matter of fact. This experiment shows an elementary school teacher teaching her students about prejudice. The eye of the storm brown eyes blue eyes experiment. The blue eyed people get 5 extra minutes of recess, while. 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. Part of the problem is that the blueeyed group is exclusively white, while the browneyed group is predominantly nonwhite, so that eye colour is no longer an analogue or metaphor for race but a. She decided to treat children with blue eyes as superior to children with brown eyes. But what really astounded jane was the difference academically. Discrimination in a thirdgrade classroom posted on march 21, 2010 march 21, 2010 by nichemuseums one saturday a few weeks ago, while having a documentary minimarathon on my couch, i came across a class divided. On the first day, she says blueeyed students are better than browneyed students. Many horses have blue or half blue, half brown eyes. When asked whats wrong with being called brown eyes, the response was because it means that browneyed people are stupider.
The other group was initially the discriminators and then experienced discrimination. This experiment can be found in video form on youtube. Jane elliotts brown eyes, blue eyes experiment in 1970 the third one after her first in 1968. Turns out all blue eyed people have a very weird thing in common that few realize duration. A wakeup call for all ages, the eye of the storm, teaches about prejudice using a dramatic framework. The angry eye brown eye blue eye experiment part 1 ephrem yohannes hawando. While blatant racism still persists in organizational settings e. A browneyed student hit a blueeyed student in the gut for calling him brown eyes. Martin luther king junior was assassinated, jane elliott was the teacher of a third grade class in the town of riceville, iowa. It was conducted in a small school in riceville, iowa, amongst 8yearold children on the day after the assassination of civil rights leader, martin luther king.
Blue eye vs brown eyed experiment by jamie foster on prezi. Blue eyesbrown eyes was weiner and wrights 1973 investigation of 31 third graders who, in a simulation, were divided into two groups. Blue eyes blue eyes are quite rare and are becoming less common. When her local newspaper published compositions that the children had. The antiracism experiment that transformed an oprah. All the browneyed students had to sit at the back of the class on the floor with no pop, and listen to blueeyed kids basically rag on us. Blue eyed vs brown eyed study conducted by jane elliott presentation by bree elliott ethics background the results in 1968, when dr. Provided to youtube by sony music entertainment brown eyes destinys child survivor. This is brown eyes and blue eyes racism experiment children session jane elliott3 by ibtehaj gul on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and. Watch the video of the famous blue eye brown eye experiment. If so many horses with light colored eyes often times will have moon blindness which is a. Final results 8 9 years old only affects a small population can not be generalized because some races look the same was the experiment reliable. Does the horse spook when you are on the bluebrown eyes side.
Blue eyesbrown eyes exercise creator jane elliott visits clarkson university. On april 5 1968 jane elliot preformed the famous experiment in her classroom separating blueeyed and browneyed students. Jane elliott, blue eyes brown eyes exercise on vimeo. The blueeyes group was discriminated against while the people with brown eyes were. One friday in april, 1968 a class divided frontline. One student said it was the equivalent of black people being called derogatory names. Students from nashuaplainfield high school in iowa produced this documentary about unsung hero jane elliott, who used the power of education to confront racial prejudices after martin luther king. Blueeyed children improved their grades, and managed mathematical and reading tasks that had proved out of their grasp before.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on youtube. A few generations ago 30% of those born had blue eyes. This is a documentary about a very brave lesson an iowa 3rdgrade teacher gave to teach her class about racism. Elliott had all the blueeyed children line up at one side of the room. This eye of storm documentary was made by william peters in 1970 for abc news and later included in the documentary a class divided 1985, which included a. Blue eyesbrown eyes exercise creator jane elliott visits. Didnt help that im a minority 99% automatically browneyed.
When we were told it was all a lie, the blueeyed kids were shocked. Jane elliott is famous for creating the blueeyebrowneye exercise, which she developed the day after martin luther kings assassination. Jane elliotts antiracism experiments on the british. She told them that people with brown eyes were better than people with blue eyes. Jane elliotts blue eyes brown eyes experiment youtube. The story behind jane elliots brown eyesblue eyes experiment. Blue eyes experiment to identify the impact of this experiment. Jane elliotts experiments in racism blues eyes v brown. Blue eyesbrown eyes teacher says mlks legacy is just.
Through the eyes of a kindergarten class, prejudice dynamics were shown in a simple yet powerful experiment. Her class is made up of all white students, therefore, she discriminates by the color of their eyes. The blue eyed students, when told they were superior and offered privileges such as extra recess time, changed their behavior dramatically and their attitudes toward the children with brown eyes. The brown eyes quickly became cowed and timid, even those that had previously dominated the class. Over at dangerous minds melissa sweat wrote about the 1968 blue eyesbrown eyes classroom experiment the class of third graders are told that blueeyed people are smarter and better than brown. What jane elliotts famous experiment says about race 50 years on. Jane elliott is an american former thirdgrade schoolteacher, antiracism activist, and educator. Blue eye vs brown eyed experiment thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed. She later went on to do the same experiment with adults.