Frontline - A Classroom Divided

[SeriouslyThug]

One day in 1968, Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. This is the story of that lesson, its lasting impact on the children, and its enduring power thirty years later.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6189991712636113875#

 

[sfgiants2001]

That's a good doc, I remember seeing that in a psych class, thanks for the link.

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

I believe this is what prompted Stanford to do their own experiment, where in some students were prison guards, and the others were prisoners. A very similar outcome occurred.

 

[ColdBlooded]

What d'ya know bout 2003?

http://www.siccness.net/vb/showthread.php?t=50210&highlight=Class+Divided

 

[Dhadnot]

I believe this is what prompted Stanford to do their own experiment, where in some students were prison guards, and the others were prisoners. A very similar outcome occurred.

I'm not sure...I think there was this experiment where test subjects had to electrocute a man with different amounts of voltage until the man was screaming out in pain, but they continued at the behest of the supervising scientist -I believe that experiment -can't remember the name- predated the Stanford experiment.

 

[Fucky McFuckerson]

I'm not sure...I think there was this experiment where test subjects had to electrocute a man with different amounts of voltage until the man was screaming out in pain, but they continued at the behest of the supervising scientist -I believe that experiment -can't remember the name- predated the Stanford experiment.

Yes, that test predated both of these experiments. The class divided inspired the Stanford prisoner experiment, as it follows very similar guidelines in one poriton of the class is "superior" and the other is "inferior".