Reflection assignment 1400 words

Pre-DiD Thinking Points • What are your views of a visually impaired person before/after DiD? • How do you feel in the first 5 minutes versus the last 5 minutes? • In term of percentages, how close to reality do you think DiD is to let you experi-

ence life as a visually-impaired person in Singapore? Think in terms of physical structures and social interactions.

• What cause disabilities? • What lessons on “invisible prejudice/discrimination” can we derive from this tour?

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Pre-Service-Learning Activity Thinking Points • Think about your impression of a foreign construction or domestic worker. What is

this impression like?

• Think about the things they bring to our society? Why couldn’t we see their value? • What are the discrimination encountered by this group? Think about why we can-

not see them?

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Seeing & Thinking About an Imperfect World - Assignment 1 Brief Analyse the impact of YOUR and our society’s Invisible Prejudices and Discrimination the visually-impaired and the foreign migrant workers. Write a reflective essay (around 1400 words) on your thoughts and supple- ment it with additional research on this topic. Do not exceed or go under. Use your own words:

Thinking Points to Help You get Started: • What are the before and after experiences for you. After you had met and interacted with the

visually-impaired persons and foreign labourers, what have you learnt about these two groups of people?

• Are you aware of your own prejudice and discrimination towards these two populations? Think about how you acquired these prejudice and discrimination, and why couldn’t you see these discriminatory thoughts?

• Think of how society (and you as a member of society) worsen the disadvantages faced by individuals through our ACTS OF DISCRIMINATION that we did not know we have?

• List examples that illustrate our society’s discrimination. • This SHOULD be supplemented by published reports of discrimination (newspapers, journals

or websites of local voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs) such as TWC2 and Migrant Workers’ Centre (MWC), Humanitarian Organisation for Migrant Economics (HOME) and others that you can find).

• Think of how ALL of society including ourselves are HURT by our own invisible discrimination against any less-privileged groups? Think of why should we change, and how by changing, it will be benefit us?

e-Submission of Assignment 1 due 3 June 2018: Submissions open on 14 May 2018 and the Link will close on 10 June 2018. You should not reference another student’s work. Submissions between 4 to 10 June 2018 will be deducted 3 marks/day. The Cover Letter for Assignment 1 should be the attached to the first page of your assignment that you will submit through SafeAssignment. You MUST FILL in your Tutorial Group, Name and Student ID. 0 marks will be awarded for non-submissions.

Marking Matrix Analytical ESSAY Content and Analysis (80 marks)

• Reflection covers examples from personal life. • Able to provide intelligent comments on

invisible discrimination. • Good arguments provided from personal

examples • Good examples on discrimination from

Singapore society from newspapers or other research.

• Depth of research and analysis of the chosen theme. Expresses appropriate thoughts, reflections, feelings, beliefs and attitude.

• Interesting, new insight(s) provided. Clear evidence of mature thinking.

>64 A Distinguished (Excellent)

56 - 64 B Proficient (Very Good)

48 - 55 C Capable (Good)

40 - 48 D Developing (Average)

<40 F Beginning (Below Average)

Analytical ESSAY Clarity (20 marks)

• At least 80% of the essay is in students own words.

• Grammar need not be perfect but the ideas MUST be understood by grader.

• All quoted content cited.

16-20 A Distinguished (Excellent)

13-14 B Proficient (Very Good)

11-12 C Capable (Good)

10 D Developing (Average)

<10 F Beginning (Below Average)