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After all of the knowledge that I have acquired throughout the semester, I have found out that I want to be person that children enjoy being around. This enjoyment can even be separate from idea of play in the classroom; I want to be someone that the children find internal peace while they are around. I want to be a solid, impactful, person that the children can know that they can discuss anything they want to with. It is vital that I use the multitude of equity issues that we have discussed in my future endeavors to be able to be this type of person for these children. I want to be someone that these children can look back at and think that I have changed their life for the better, not to add more negative emotions on their life, but to take away some of those pre-existing negative emotions.

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I believe that because I experienced multiple layers of trauma growing up, that puts me at an advantage at understanding and helping young students. This week's learning gave me a new view of some of the resiliency strategies that my peers used when I was younger. I had always viewed these actions as deliberate and obstructive, of course that's true, but these children are doing it because of a deeper emotional/physical issue going on at home. Overall, this week's article taught me to be more compassionate to my peers.

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Today's guest lecturer, Javier, was able to share some insights about Austin that I have previously never known. It is quite sickening how much of a racist past Austin has; however, it is our job has future educators (etc.) to share our knowledge to others. I can only speak for myself, in that I was very blessed to have grown up in a relatively good socioeconomic area. Although, I know that others are not always as blessed as I am. Nonetheless, the outdoor space that I was given was necessary for my development. I want other children to have the same about of privilege, and more so, than I did when I grew up. The way we do that is by fighting for our rights within the government, and not trying to hide our shameful pasts, only trying to make them better.

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I think my culture impacts almost all aspects of my life. Growing up in a city that is such a mixture of all types of cultures is what made me the type of person that I am today. I think the fact that I can't put myself into one category since I have an immigrant Asian grandmother, yet I am white person and lived in quite a diverse city, made me hover in all types of cultures depending on who I interacted with. However, I didn't realize how different "my" culture was until I moved into Austin. There did seem to be a culture surrounding the city, but it seems to be fading away, due to whatever combination of reasons. Although, it's important to include a culture's values, beliefs, household care, capitalist environment, etc. as a part of agency within children and their play. I think it's vital to children's survival and ability to thrive if they understand the world/community in which they live.

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After reading the articles for class and participating in this week's lectures, I have found that I still harbor a lot of the negative thoughts about children with disabilities that I did when I was in K-12. Just like how the guest lecturer in 10/15's lecture said that people knew him for being on the "short bus", I knew exactly what he was talking about when he stated that. It made me reflect on the truly horrible things I have said and dare thought when I was in schooling. Obviously, the biggest take away in this week's lectures is knowing that disability is not defined by what a child cannot do, but what they can do instead. I believe it really important that teachers and parents harbor good intentions towards those with disabilities even if they do not interact with them on a daily basis. By stating good intentions, students and children can start leading an inclusive environment in and outside of school.

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I grew up being raised as a monolingual English speaker. However, my grandma regularly spoke Japanese to my great aunt over the phone, and fed us traditional Japanese food. My grandmother just felt that it was unnecessary to teach her children and grandchildren Japanese. My father also was from French Canada and regularly spoke French around my paternal grandparents. But due to my parent's divorce when I was young, I was never taught French. Although my dad always talked about how he wished he would've taught me. That's why I see bilingualism and multilingualism as a beautiful gift and talent (one that I'm envious of). It is weird to me that America frequently shuns bilingualism and multilingualism instead of encouraging it. After taking multiple child development classes and seeing the benefits of what knowing more than one language gives children, makes me want to learn a second language that I can teach my own children.

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As I wrote in my Autobiography, I had done competitive dance for about 17 years of my life. I loved dance quite a lot, however, when I look back, I think it reinforced a lot of the gender stereotypes that I am accustomed to. When you're a female in dance, you're taught to act and hold yourself in a different way than other females. Women in dance are supposed to be proper, poised, delicate, etc. I felt as though I never fit into any of these roles, and I still don't feel that way. These roles were pushed by my teachers and mother, sometimes so much that I still think I'm lacking the etiquette that makes me a "real" woman. I would say dance definitely reinforces gender norms. Nonetheless, dance can be even more harmful to boys. It is associated with men in dance that they have to be homosexual to be able to do the sport, or that it's something that they have to be ashamed of if they're not. Dance can be a very freeing sport and very invigorating, but it's also something that can cause a lot of harm to someone's mental health.