Personal Awareness & Responsibility

In Social Justice 12, it is important to have personal awareness. For instance, a part of maturing and taking in heavy topics is due to personal awareness; understanding that you have more privilege lives than others due to your personal identity. Additionally, personal awareness and responsibility carries weight on how you respond to stories and whether you are respectful towards others. Furthermore, in many of my assignments I needed personal awareness and responsibility. One of them is the sixties scoop focus project. In this project I talked about the loss of language and culture. Throughout the project, I became more aware as the project progressed. I was aware of the horrible acts done to the survivors of the scoop and became responsible for how I interpret those events. In this project, I had the responsibility of sharing the survivor’s stories, making sure their voices are heard and not disregarded, like in the past. My awareness during this project increased and had growth for future projects and discussions.