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Title:Take Omri, for example Rating: 2.6 out of 4 Reference: By Debby Jivan. Library of Congress subjects: Rejection (Psychology) in children--Israel--Case studies Social interaction in children--Israel--Case studies Teacher-student relationships--Israel--Case studies Sociology subjects: Education Ethnographic methods Interviewing methods (in part) Kids & youth Men & masculinities Reviews and Numerical Ratings 3 Rebecca felt that by presenting “raw data” & not having a voice-over narrator, the video focuses on children’s culture & leaves room for viewer’s interpretation. The events shown have increasing complexity, depict kids’ agency, & disrupt the image of kids as innocent. Kathy felt the pace was sometimes slow, but overall that the kids’ energy made the images engaging. Also, the video permits a contrast between what children say (in interviews) & what they do (when observed). Lecture topics: children’s culture, power, interviewing & observation methods. Kathy Bischoping & Rebecca Raby 4 An excellent video that exposes how bullying & marginalization of young children are detrimental to their self-esteem. The video reveals how very young children are socialized to hold dominant values of sex, sexuality, & gender, and to participate in verbal & physical abuse. Although the video used subtitles, I was able to see how Omri expressed his feelings of loneliness (e.g., sitting alone, crying) and to sympathize with him. Despite Omri’s experience of being left out, he doesn’t give up to fit in. The video has no narrator, but the children are being videoed in a real/natural setting that gives the viewer a stronger connection to the issue of peer pressure & bullying as part of children’s lives. The lesson to be learned from this video is that teachers & parents must be aware & sensitive to the issue of bullying and take precautions to that a child who is singled out does not react in any way that is fatal (i.e., suicide or murder). This would be an excellent resource for sociology courses on child socialization & interaction, as well as for Education, where it would be an asset for aspiring teachers. For students at any level. Kisrene McKenzie (undergraduate) 1 In general, don’t show this: it has minimal content. Fine for 1st & 2nd year students in a short tutorial discussion if the topic is childhood/school bullying in a social context. This video failed to provide expert opinions, and as a result, this video will not provide students at York with a real sense of educational purpose. The video resembles a drama rather than an educational documentary. It would better suit a developmental or social psychology course. Minh Hoang (undergraduate) 2.5 The consensus of the Graduate Workshop was that this was a good video to highlight observational methods. However, most felt that its value was lessened because it was subtitled (from Hebrew). Viewers were disappointed that they could not effectively evaluate whose voices were lost in the subtitling process. It was argued that because editing is such a strong analytical tool, that in order to be thorough in our analysis of this video, one would have to be clear on everything that was said---and not just want on the subtitles offered. The usage of “selected voices” fascinated the workshop audience, which was disappointed that because of language barriers, they could not delve into this topic. Viewers did feel it was helpful that this video was so recent. Graduate Workshop 2 This video is disturbing. The tyranny of a certain group of children against one child, Omri, is evidence of the brutality & cruelty that children can be subjected to in the classroom. It was eye-opening to see the degradation & humiliation that an unpopular child can experience at the hands of classmates, and distressing to see the teacher take the bullies’ side & do a feeble job of attending to the raucous in the classroom. It was very alarming to listen to both sexes whole-heartedly shout the lyrics of a song in which females were being referred to as “whores” & “bitches.” They chanted this misogynistic song like an anthem. Problematically, what this video did not do is dissect & analyze the issues being illustrated; I was disappointed that there was not even a slight attempt to tackle the issues. Additionally, it would have been fascinating to learn whether or not the displayed violence, degradation, and cruelty in this classroom could be found cross-culturally or if it could potentially be culture-specific. For 1st year students. Belinda Godwin 3 Disturbing. Gives an excellent picture of how gender
relations, popularity, “looks”, “ability”, strength
& aggression are privileged in substantive ways. A good film to
show in an education class. Doesn’t provide a narrative that links
the local with the structural. Riley Olstead
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