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Counter Narratives from Childhood: �Disney Princesses

Civic Character & Critical Consciousness in Advisory

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  • Greeting
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

Agenda

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  • Greeting
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

Agenda

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Greeting

What historical figure would you like to meet?

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  • Greeting
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

Agenda

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Identity & Learning

“What happens when historians leave out many of America’s peoples? What happens ‘‘when someone with the authority of a teacher’’ describes our society, and ‘‘you are not in it’’? Such an experience can be disorienting—‘‘a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.’’

--Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror, 1993

What does this quotation get you thinking about?

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  • Greeting
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

Agenda

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Stories about Justice & Injustice

Dominant Narratives

Counter-Narratives

Resistance Narratives

Well-known, taken-for-granted stories from the perspective of a dominant group that seeks to justify the status quo and that group’s dominance

-Dr. Lee Anne Bell

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Stories about Justice & Injustice

Dominant Narratives

Counter-Narratives

Resistance Narratives

Stories hidden beneath the dominant narratives that offer important truths about issues of justice and injustice, and how they have shaped our lives and society

--Dr. Theresa Perry

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Disney Princesses

Is there a dominant narrative about who is a Disney princess?

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Creating Your Own Counter-Narrative

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Discussion Questions

  • Can you think of a counter-narrative that’s been important for you?

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  • Is there a counter-narrative that you wish existed but doesn’t (as far as you know)?

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  • Greeting
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

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Debrief

  • What did you like about today’s lesson?
  • Did you learn anything new about yourself or anyone else?
  • What could make it better?

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