{"id":207,"date":"2022-01-28T20:08:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tedxyouthaths.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2022-01-28T20:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T20:08:45","slug":"changing-the-narrative-of-historic-aapi-representation-through-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.tedxyouthaths.com\/2022\/01\/28\/changing-the-narrative-of-historic-aapi-representation-through-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the Narrative of Historic AAPI Representation Through Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"changing-the-narrative-of-historic-aapi-representation-through-education\"><strong>Changing the Narrative of Historic AAPI Representation Through Education<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I descend from a Filipino-American background and have always honored my heritage from a young age. Recently, there has been growing violent discrimination against people of my background in my community and the broader Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. This spike in discrimination has roots in harmful misrepresentations against us. When society experiences a harmful spike such as this, our communities here and beyond must advocate against this and reclaim our prideful background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing alongside this spike are advocacy groups to combat it, such as \u201cMake Us Visible\u201d, a group that advocates for comprehensive inclusion of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islanders) studies into the K-12 curriculum nationwide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new school curriculum brings hope, but also unease. Asia and the Pacific Islands are home to a great amount of social diversity and Asian Americans descendants of the minority stress that aspects of their past will not be honored. Other AAPI citizens worry that critically sentimental parts of AAPI history will be wrongly instructed by unaware educators. Thus, there are gathered worries that this will spread more misrepresentation than proper education to society. Nonetheless, it is inevitable that a changing curriculum places its effectiveness in the hands of school communities. To ensure this impact, educators must be provided with the proper training to instruct or the curriculum implement mandatory aspects of inclusive AAPI history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, the fight for educational representation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders is becoming a reality. On January 18, 2022, Governor Murphy signed the NJ AAPI Curriculum Bill, making NJ the second state that will require K-12 schools to teach Asian American and Pacific Islander history as part of their curricula starting in the 2022-2023 school year. Additionally, Murphy signed S3764\/A3369, a bill that will establish the Commission for Asian American Heritage within the Department of Education. One of the commission\u2019s objectives is to aid in the implementation of historical, cultural, and educational programs concerning Asian and Asian American citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The passage of new AAPI curricula lights a candle of hope. Society should be more informed on the pressing issues outside of American borders and of their own intellect; discrimination and hate has obvious roots in the hands of those miseducated. With this signed bill taking action into the upcoming school year, the advocacy for AAPI education must heighten. If the diverse coalition of parents, advocates, students, and legislators augments, more states will adopt this bill as well as infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion into their educational curriculum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The narrative around Asian American and Pacific Islander representation within private and public school education is now changing. We must ensure that adults, children, and teenagers of today\u2019s society and of following generations feel included in the layered history of America. We must relight the candles of heroic stories buried in AAPI history and change the narrative of those misrepresented. With this expansion of knowledge, our society will strengthen through understanding and overcoming the loud voices of discrimination and hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the Narrative of Historic AAPI Representation Through Education I descend from a Filipino-American background and have always honored my heritage from a young age. Recently, there has been growing violent discrimination against people of my background in my community and the broader Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. 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