Omar Hilal
Week: 2
Brief description of the activity/presentation:
Reading “If Only You Knew” and completing our disability task.
Describe how the session was conducted
Mrs G conducted the class this week. We primarily focused on disability awareness, while also being introduced to a book based on a spastic girl named Jacy and her life story.
In addition to this, the class also began a task based on some disability questions and the SCOSA foundation.
What did I get out of this session/what do you remember the most?
This week, I became more aware of the term spastic, its meaning, and how shameful it is to use this term as an insult.
I also learnt after reading part of the book how little discrimination …show more content…
What did I get out of this session/what do you remember the most?
In doing this assignment, I now know the marginalized are those who have been oppressed, segregated or discredited; These individuals are often of the lower public who receive a hateful, deceitful and/or a misguided perception against them.
As someone who believes in equality, I believe that society engages too much in discrediting the marginalized as participants of society. The marginalized are in any society which segregates and places negative perceptions against individuals, subsequently causing harm and harassment to arise. Today, the world needs to open their eyes to the feelings and thoughts the marginalized possess, particularly those of disabilities who cannot articulate their emotions or have no-one to talk to. This assessment has conjured emotions similar to that of Jacy and her presentation in week 5.
Things that I think could improve for this type of session
In my opinion, at this stage of the course, I would have liked to have had more time to read Jacy’s novel. I do understand though that this is only a one term course, having the course be longer would have been much