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Christine MoguelThank you for this website! My students learn best through sensory experiences. I wanted to highlight different East Asian countries and share with my students some food items. They can try a couple snack or items and review them based on their personal preferences and/or learn to classify the food as sweet or salty foods. I dont ahve much time to go out and buy these items, so I appreciate the info on this website!
Christine MoguelI loved the anime section of the lecture. Not only does my son LOVE Manga series, it is the only type of reading material he loves (oh no!). As I have skimmed through my sons anime books, I noticed that- not only is it a very visual literature, aggressive at times, but it is open to ineterpretation by the readers often when there is little text. As a special education teacher, I would like to take out the text and have my students dive in to configuring the meaning of the story line based on the pictures. They can practice sequencing, infer meaning of the storylines, and possibly predict the ending of the story. I think it would be great practice for my students. I love when I am able to teach through creative means.
Christine MoguelI also absolutely loved Professor Miyakes lecture about Japanese Literature- she is funny, engaging, and made the content very exciting. Although I wasnt surprised with the amount of female writers who executed their art covertly, I was surprised to learn about the candor in which they spoke about their lifes in their writing. Lynne gave specific examples of this - noting the sad stories, true stories they spoke about. I wonder if these women were ever shunned by society because of their writings.
Christine MoguelJapan as we know is one of the technological innovator powerhouse the world has today. I was always curious as to when this labor trend in innovation and technology began in Japan. As sited in the article 'Rise of the modern Japan', their economic growth was very closely tied to the early 20th century, when Japanese large coorporations took advantange of the international 'boom' in technology. Following the international trend with the goal of making a mark on the world stage of technological innovations, Japan forged its way to becoming second to none in this area. How have they been at the top of their game for so long? I believe the work ethic and focus in technology was estabilished so long ago that it has been engrained into their countiries economic, political and cultural sectors of the Japanese way of life.
Christine MoguelLoved how you brought the lesson into your classroom and posed questions to your students about the labor force - minimum wage worker vs. a professional worker. I think it is interesting to point out the bigger picture for students in high school - about given that they are on the cupst of either getting a wage job, or going to college and move toward a professional career. Food for theought for them for sure. An extension to the lesson, I might propose, is to have the students go home and interview their parents about their career choices and the labor sector they got into. Finding out about your parents decisions is always an eye opener for our students.
Christine MoguelI loved the "form" themes in describing patterens in history! Our students love visual concepts that tie ideas together. How did your students like the lesson? Did you only use visual scaffolds? or did you use tactile materials to teach the lesson?
Christine MoguelLoved this assignment with you created based on the Korean lesson in our seminar! Our students are amazing and I love hearing their reflections. Creating lessons that engage students to think about how similar their lives are to others as opposed to how different they are hooks in so many other types of thinking. It brings about ideas of empathy, compassion, nostaglia, and cutlure appreciation. Bravo! Loved it!
Christine MoguelHi Rey!
I guess we are the only two educator that teach special education and more specifically - we teach moderate to severe eduaction. I look forward to brainstorming with you on how you make content comprehensible to our population. One suggetion that I could have with you about teaching East Asia content is by crafting lessons using the senses- music, food (taste and smell), chinese dance (kinesthetics), and visual pictures of landscape, people and society. So many facinating ways to teach this content. Let's discuss!
Christine Moguel
The story of Divorce, as one of our readings, in a society that was so historically controlled socially, peaked my interest. As it states in the article, divorce in China started rising in the 1980’s- a generational turning point in China. Ruled by Hua Guofeng after Mao’s death in 1976 and consequently Deng Xiaoping in 1981- the transitional period begins and the focus on economic reform. I can only think that it was a time when women were also in a form of social transformation.
In 1994 there was a marriage law adopted requiring a reference from an employer or a community leader to divorce. All restrictions to divorce were removed in 2003. While I do not know exactly how the love story crumbled- there are certain situations that have been recorded as indicators to the shift in separating or divorcing. For one, many couples lived apart as they often worked and lived indifferent households- this lead to many infidelities between the two. Other factors noted was the rise in women getting more education- which in turn, could equate with women getting better employment. Women also became more aware of their marital rights. Most interesting, was the cause and effect of the rise of social media and dating. Women and men increased their potential for mates exponentially through virtual online engagement.
China had lived for generations following social, governmental, religious regulations in almost every aspect of peoples personal lives. When transformation in the economy reform happened- the window opened for the rest of the society to rethink every aspect of their existence. Fascinating parallels!
Christine MoguelAs I look back on some of the class activities that we have participated in thus far, this has been my favorite! I actually tried this in my theater class! The idea that the class is split up into three groups and are asked to "become" these varying characters for a play/film we are working on in my theater class. The film is about a conflict resolution strategy we are putting into place our school called peer mediation. I had the students play- disputant #1, Disputant #2, the peer mediatiors the teacher. They had to personify these characters as an activity and play around with how to communicate their feelings about the events in the script.
Great class idea! I also enjoyed the Strengther- role I played in class!
Christine MoguelCommunist Propaganda- Card #1- Woman holding a wrench or “Struggle for accelerating to achieve agricultural mechanization”
The picture card depicts a woman wearing work clothes with her sleeves rolled up griping a wrench hand tool. She is standing alone, she is strong, and she might seem proud- as depicted by the smile expression she is displaying. In the background, I can see a tractor and an outdoor farming landscape, which denotes the possibility of the propaganda portraying the strong farming labor force and a glimpse modernization in the farming industry with the tractor in the picture. This in part communicates strength, modernization, industrialization, labor worker conformity in the Chinese communist party. These posters were Mao’s revolutionary class struggle ideology- his way of impacting and flooding working class consciousness to strengthen his regime.
Card #2- Yanggensi, The Forever Hero
The picture depicts a man holding what looks like bundle of something that he is protecting as he flies over a natural landscape- he is a hero. By the looks of his peasant outfit he might seem as a Robin Hood character. He might be guarding the “bundle” or Chinese domestic product against foreign invasion and expansion in China.
Christine MoguelI can write about the Korean War and the divide that devastated the people and the country, but I would rather focus on one of the interesting facts about Korean that spoke close to my heart. Interesting to learn from the Top 10 Things to know about 21st century article was number 5: Koreans long held history as a people that respected, admired, and were inspired by nature and the natural environment that surrounded them. I already want to travel to Korea after learning about this! Koreans love and veneration of nature transpired throughout the arts in poetry, literature, art, and architecture- got to see that for myself! With the extent that Korean identity and cultural aesthetic captivates nature, do Koreans value the importance to preserve the environment? What sort of measures are the South Koreans taking to help preserve their natural environment?
Christine MoguelThe “self-strengthening” movement came out of a need to modernize, industrialize, and strengthen the economy in China under the Qing Government. The pressure was on for the government ‘step up their game’ to be able to establish itself as a powerful country as a result of a series of military defeats and foreign concessions. The Self Strengthening movement had a leader that really helped open the door to foreign communication – lieutenant Li Hongxhang. He lead the affairs ministry or ‘Yongli Yamen’ to help strengthen the economy and military. The movement essentially radically moved toward the ideology – we must modernize to survive.
Christine MoguelJennifer’s lecture about Korea from 1800-1945 was insightful on many levels, taking us through the societal, cultural, religious structures that shaped the country. Most interesting, I think, for the purpose of my classroom instruction was the class system structure in Korea in the 19th century. We are learning about equal rights and self-advocacy- what it looks like, how it sounds, and who it involves in my students daily life. We treat each other as equals – with equally poignant voices within the school instructional day. It would be very powerful to highlight social class structure – the Koran model 1800-1945 for my students to be able to compare and contrast to our current 2018 contemporary society.
Christine MoguelAmazing! I spent years in Italy studying Art history- and being there, only made me even MORE interested in learning about the culture. Travel is essencial to understanding culture!
