We don’t pick our role models, the media does.
Since yesterdays group Skype call I have decided to open up my area of literature - I had been focussing purely on role models in teaching up until now.
Adesola said how that role model qualities and strategies could be transferable between professions and could be applied to dance teaching. So I decided to widen my search.
And this article really made me think.
https://www.thespark.org.uk/role-models/
Without reading the article, it is obvious from the image what this was about.
Here we have a reality TV star with millions of followers, compared to an olympic champion with just 77,000.
Okay, so 77,000 is quite a lot, but when you compare that to 108mil for Kim Kardashian, 1.6mil for last year's Love Island winner - Amber on Instagram; 77,000 is just a drop in the ocean.
We are letting reality stars rule our social media over world class athletes, doctors, nurses, firemen and teachers!
When you think about it like that, it's quite worrying isn't it?
I have decided to unfollow every 'famous' person that doesn't really bring anything of real quality to my page. Sponsored posts for brands they probably never use, posts about there own brand to make money....
I want to follow people who inspire me, enrich my life and leave me feeling like I have learned something after looking at their posts (as well as family and friends of course)
This doesn't really relate too much to my inquiry, but I feel like I need to gain an understanding of whether children just look to those in the public eye when they think about a role model.
Adesola said how that role model qualities and strategies could be transferable between professions and could be applied to dance teaching. So I decided to widen my search.
And this article really made me think.
https://www.thespark.org.uk/role-models/
Without reading the article, it is obvious from the image what this was about.
Here we have a reality TV star with millions of followers, compared to an olympic champion with just 77,000.
Okay, so 77,000 is quite a lot, but when you compare that to 108mil for Kim Kardashian, 1.6mil for last year's Love Island winner - Amber on Instagram; 77,000 is just a drop in the ocean.
We are letting reality stars rule our social media over world class athletes, doctors, nurses, firemen and teachers!
When you think about it like that, it's quite worrying isn't it?
I have decided to unfollow every 'famous' person that doesn't really bring anything of real quality to my page. Sponsored posts for brands they probably never use, posts about there own brand to make money....
I want to follow people who inspire me, enrich my life and leave me feeling like I have learned something after looking at their posts (as well as family and friends of course)
This doesn't really relate too much to my inquiry, but I feel like I need to gain an understanding of whether children just look to those in the public eye when they think about a role model.
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