[Kathrin Simmons]

BTS has the higher popularity by demonstrating gender fluidity, men taking extra care of their appearance and presenting themselves as cute and happy people. While Blackpink full filling female norms demonstrating pretty much the same.

Both bands are real artists, writing their own songs, creating their performances themselves, also both bands have international values speaking different languages or using the english language in their songs.

I would like to use both bands music and videos to introduce my students to different music genres as well as introducing them to aspects of South Korean culture and especially BTS to show my students gender fluidity and how being not conform with gender roles is acceptable and important.

[Kathrin Simmons]

I have enjoyed Professor Miakey's lecture and esspecially the poem readings. She offered great suggestions towards using the presented material in the classroom. Thinking of my Physical Education curriculum, Japanese literature, theater, and music can be used to teach Physical Education Standards of dance and rhythm throughout the grades. I would like to use Profressor Miyake's suggestion of writing a ballad or rap from a segment of a Heike, since they were originally sung by monks. Using a segment of a Heike to develop, practice and perform as a rap dance could be part of a dance unit with my secondary students in Adapted Physical Education class.

[Kathrin Simmons]

I am interested in learning more about the One Child policy and would like to read Mei Fong's book " One Child and will checkout videos on the website.  I am very much looking forward to the documentary "One nation" tonight to get more insight.

[Kathrin Simmons]

I very much enjoyed Professor Yans lecture, learning about traditional familism from ancient China to this time and the meaning familism had for chinese society. The lecture gave me an inside of the huge changes chinese people went through since the cultural revolution. The rules that strengthened familism like respecting, seniors for wisdom and life experience, where turned around, as described in Prof. Yan's article" Neo- familism in the state of China" . Grandparents where left behind in the countryside while younger generations had to work hard to make a living in the cities. The one-child policy reversed old principals and destroyed values of familism.

In his article he explains how often seniors merely had to babysitt grandchildren, without being able to secure their own future. I enjoyed reading about the Dancing Grannies, where grandmothers simply refused to baby-sit but instead taking care of their own social life and well being by meeting in large group in public to excercise and dance.

I would like to research more about the health excercises that are practised in China to widen my horizon in the traditions of Qi Gong, Thai Chi etc. to include into my Physical Education program for special education students.

 

 

 

 

[Kathrin Simmons]

My name is Kathrin Simmons. I am teaching Adapted Physical Education at a Middle and Elementary school for LAUSD in Wilmington. I am looking forward to meet everybody on Monday!

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