...Respect for Cultural Diversity Poster. Twenty first century early childhood classrooms in the United States are filled with culturally diverse students. As an early childhood educator, you can help prepare this future generation of children to succeed in school. Chapter 1 of the textbook describes different strategies educators can use to support children in their classroom success. ECE 405 Week 1 ePortfolio Submission 1 Culturally Relevant Methods ePortfolio Submission 1: Culturally Relevant Methods. Throughout this course you will develop an ePortfolio that includes evidence of your cultural competence in each of the following areas: § CulturallyRelevantMethods § Anti-BiasCurriculum § DiverseFamilyStructures § MulticulturalEducation Using Chapters 1 and 2 of your text and at least one additional scholarly source, compile a list of 20 culturally competent strategies for English language learners (ELLs). At least five of your strategies should be appropriate for infants/toddlers, five strategies should be appropriate for preschool, and five strategies should be appropriate for early elementary age. You may select the age level for the five remaining strategies. ECE 405 Week 2 DQ 1 Culturally Relevant and Anti-Bias Classroom Culturally Relevant and Anti-Bias Classroom. Teachers can be genuine in their efforts to design and provide a culturally relevant and anti-bias classroom, but still fail to foster an environment where children are fully inclusive of others and free...
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...new territories across the globe in search of new markets or outsourcing some aspects of their production process. Management of employee cultural diversity, through the integration of suitable strategies plays a key role in improving the competitive advantage of the business, especially on the global platform. Globalization calls for specific approaches that promote harmonious working relationships within increasingly culturally diverse workplaces. Hansen (2002) observes that workplace diversity is critical to the existence of businesses and identifying key strategies to ensure harmonious working relationships among culturally diverse employees is integral to the survival of any business. Diversity in this case means the differences between individuals based on their culture, which influences their perceptions, values and beliefs. There is increased pressure on human resource departments to integrate culturally diverse employees, while at the same time maintaining high levels of motivation among the divergent groups. The main issue in a culturally diverse workforce is creating synergy, teamwork and...
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...students of color, and therefore, there is an increasing need for teachers to exhibit culturally sensitive behaviors in the classroom (Cross, 2003). In order to adapt in such an environment, practitioners must understand that cultural differences do not merely serve as a backdrop- they must be seriously considered in order to achieve success. In fact, key studies have found that individuals who have thrived in these classrooms exhibited a unique combination of personal characteristics (both innate and learned) and were aware of the challenging road ahead of them. Considering the fact that urban schools are made up of such diverse students, the question then arises if teachers of these classroom culturally follow suit. According to one article, 85.6% of urban schoolteachers are white (Cross, 2003). This sort of homogeneous instruction, if not approached properly, could certainly have negative effects towards the effectiveness of equitable education. For example, some students of color may not trust the teacher because they could have been isolated from diversity in their households prior to formal schooling. These urban students may feel an overall sense of detachment from their instructors and this could inevitably harm their enthusiasm and will to learn. Since it is known that most urban teachers are white and most commonly females, how are they supposed to relate to their culturally rich classroom and provide for all students an equitable education? One study examined...
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...& Smith, B. A. (2011). A blueprint for developing culturally proficient/responsive school administrators in special education. Learning Disabilities -- A Contemporary Journal, 9(1), 33-46. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Introduction Nationwide, schools are being faced with a rapid increase in the number of students of color, culturally and linguistically diverse students, students with learning disabilities, students from low-income families, and students from non-traditional and single parent families. As a result, determining how schools can adapt to meet the needs of these vast demographics, as well as how the varied demographics can play a role in the education of these students, has become more than just a topic of conversation and research for academic professionals, educators, researchers, and practitioners. Literature and research point to educational reform by improving school systems to foster multicultural educational environments. Specifically, school leadership and professional development are closely looked at as driving factors in which to achieve this educational reform. In their article “A Blueprint for Developing Culturally Proficient/Responsive School Administrators in Special Education,” Bakken and Smith (2011) focus on the need for school administrators to be culturally responsive/proficient in the special education arena particularly in order to better meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students who have learning disabilities (LD)...
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...Acknowledgments .......................................................................................................... iv Executive Summary......................................................................................................... v Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Findings........................................................................................................................... 3 Defining Cultural Competence .................................................................................. 3 Barriers to Culturally Competent Care....................................................................... 3 Benefits of Cultural Competence ............................................................................... 6 Models of Culturally Competent Care ............................................................................. 7 Academia...
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...Simpson’s comments, undoubtedly, have altered her professional image from one of “effective educator” to “unprofessional teacher” in the eyes of many teacher educators.” They go on to note “conventional wisdom fails to account for the importance of cultural context when analyzing teacher behaviors.” c. Research Questions/Hypotheses No specific research question or hypothesis is noted, but the authors do address the overall context for their qualitative study. They state that “we argue that researchers and teacher educators must carefully consider the salience of culture as related to effective classroom management techniques for low-income African American students who attend urban schools.” More specifically, after reviewing the literature, the authors state that the “purpose of the...
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...Culturally Responsive Teaching: Bridging the Gap Michael Warren University of Texas at El Paso Culturally Responsive Teaching: Bridging the Gap The changing demographics in classrooms are not often reflected in the pedagogies, curriculum and strategies used in represented grade levels and content areas by the education professionals that drive our education system. Recent research has considered the idea that culturally responsive or culturally pedagogical teaching may be the answer to closing the achievement gap created by the absence of cultural awareness. The concept of cultural awareness may be simply defined as an understanding and awareness of the diversity in the classroom (Villegas & Lucas, 2002); however, such a simplistic definition does not recognize the many dimensions involved in the pedagogy of culturally responsive teaching, which for students includes seeing germane links between subject matter and lessons and their experiences outside the context of the classroom and how those links influence what and how they learn. The purpose of this literature review is to examine the many facets that make up the term Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) and the impact and implications implementing such a broad concept may have on the education system. While the literature discusses several topics connected to CRT, I will confine this review to the following: (1) CRT Background/Definition (2) The methods of study, the participants involved and the significance...
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...Understanding Diversity to Create Successful Libraries A Review of Literature Veronica Espinoza SLIS 5000 Dr. O’Connor University of North Texas August 5, 2012 Abstract Within our country, the diverse users who visit libraries and seek information services from their librarians are many. Within the 21st century dynamic demographics are creating diverse communities which bring significant challenges in our library systems. In order to target the needs of diverse users, librarians and information professionals are taking on a multifaceted approach. This approach requires librarians to provide a variety of quality information services to diverse users while advocating diversity standards. The manner in which diverse users will be best served by librarians will fall upon the understanding and employment of four relevant criteria. The advocacy of successful programs and community support systems, diverse collection development, implementation of guidelines and legislation, and targeted diversity training for librarians and staff are all needed in order for librarians to adequately serve those diverse user population groups within their library communities. Introduction In the information field, librarians are taking important steps to stay relevant and effective to those users living in a 21st century environment who require information services. The makeup of users however, is a fluid reality...
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...Know About the Development of Intercultural Maturity Cultural diversity is the opposite of monoculture. It only refers to diverse culture or quality of various (Banks, 1997). Cultural diversity also means respect between different cultures that exist. It sometimes implies the existence of a variety of cultures like what we have in the world today, whereby particular culture occupy a particular region in the world (Banks, 1998). Globalization has been said to have had adverse effects on diversity in the world today (Banks, 1997). Culture influences how society members share experiences, heir values, fears, worries and hopes, culture moulds the perception and understanding of a community about the world. Culture enhances equitability and justice in the society (Banks, 1997). My goal in this paper is to discuss cultural diversity and particularly what we know about the development of intercultural maturity (Banks, 1998). Students from diverse social class, regions, ethnic and racial groups always perform and achieve differently in the schools (Banks, 1997). This act leads us to the need for equality in the education system; this will in turn close of the diversity gap. Intercultural Maturity is developed by formulation and implementation of multicultural education policies that will abolish culturally based education systems. Culturally biased education systems hurt education in that they might lead to racial discrimination and inequalities more so to the minorities...
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...teaching and learning can occur” (Martin & Sugarman, p.9, 1993) (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, 2008). In the class of culturally diverse children , the teacher has to receptive and appreciative of the diverse cultures which is represented by the students. The first challenge most teachers do not appreciate the fact that their culture is not necessary the right approach to situations or even lives. They will endeavor to conform the students or children to their own beliefs, which will inturn the students in a rebellious classroom, full on insuborination and indiscipline. The main perspective article explains by Southern Poverty Law Center in reference to a quote by one high school student which the student quoted by expressing his disappointment of the teacher at his school “think they know what’s wrong with us. But they don’t know. If people want to helpus, they have to see what we’ve been through, not from what their own experiences tell them” (Southern Povery Law Center, 2014). In this paper it says that many schools in the United States that the teaching staff are all middle aged, middle class, and monolingual and that they intend to represent or teach highly diversified culturally. To bring this main point out, the article appeals to teachers, to “reach out to them in ways that are culturally and linguistically responsive and appropriate, and we must examine the cultural assumptions and stereotype we bring into the classroom that may hinder...
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...Journal of Transcultural Nursing http://tcn.sagepub.com/ Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Nursing Care : 2011 Update Marilyn K. Douglas, Joan Uhl Pierce, Marlene Rosenkoetter, Dula Pacquiao, Lynn Clark Callister, Marianne Hattar-Pollara, Jana Lauderdale, Jeri Milstead, Deena Nardi and Larry Purnell J Transcult Nurs 2011 22: 317 DOI: 10.1177/1043659611412965 The online version of this article can be found at: http://tcn.sagepub.com/content/22/4/317 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Transcultural Nursing Society Additional services and information for Journal of Transcultural Nursing can be found at: Email Alerts: http://tcn.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://tcn.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://tcn.sagepub.com/content/22/4/317.refs.html >> Version of Record - Sep 26, 2011 What is This? Downloaded from tcn.sagepub.com by Marty Douglas on September 27, 2011 412965 ouglas et al.Journal of Transcultural Nursing TCN22410.1177/1043659611412965D Commentary Journal of ranscultural Nursing T 22(4) 317–333 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1043659611412965 http://tcn.sagepub.com Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Nursing Care: 2011 Update Marilyn K. Douglas, DNSc, RN, FAAN1, Joan Uhl...
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...Know About the Development of Intercultural Maturity Cultural diversity is the opposite of monoculture. It only refers to diverse culture or quality of various (Banks, 1997). Cultural diversity also means respect between different cultures that exist. It sometimes implies the existence of a variety of cultures like what we have in the world today, whereby particular culture occupy a particular region in the world (Banks, 1998). Globalization has been said to have had adverse effects on diversity in the world today (Banks, 1997). Culture influences how society members share experiences, heir values, fears, worries and hopes, culture moulds the perception and understanding of a community about the world. Culture enhances equitability and justice in the society (Banks, 1997). My goal in this paper is to discuss cultural diversity and particularly what we know about the development of intercultural maturity (Banks, 1998). Students from diverse social class, regions, ethnic and racial groups always perform and achieve differently in the schools (Banks, 1997). This act leads us to the need for equality in the education system; this will in turn close of the diversity gap. Intercultural Maturity is developed by formulation and implementation of multicultural education policies that will abolish culturally based education systems. Culturally biased education systems hurt education in that they might lead to racial discrimination and inequalities more so to the minorities...
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...Chapter II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This chapter presents a review of related literature and studies which are found relevant in the development of this study. It begins by exploring the cultural practices of the students. Cultural practices Culture has been, and continues to be, defined in many ways. Peck (1998) cited by Fleet (2002) has described culture as, “the accepted and patterned ways of behaviour of a given people” and “as membership in a discourse community that shares a common social space and history, and common imaginings”. In addition, Donkor (2013) stated that culture becomes such an integral part of human existence that it is the human environment and most cultural change can be contributed to human adaptation to historical events. Cultural practices are patterns of social interactions and behavior and they represent the knowledge of what to do and where and how to interact within a particular culture (Lawrence 1999). Furthermore, Ask .com n.d. defines cultural practices as the generally norms in behaviors and standards that developed in ethnic groups and communities in ancient history. Cultural practices are often important aspects of identity for people to connect them with others of their religion, race or region. Mindanao Culture & beliefs (n.d.) stated that, in the Philippines, Mindanao is the most culturally diverse island where people of different languages, tribes and races meet. Every child enters the educational world with a unique set...
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...of the other countries, or you can report on several countries within your area if the media systems are diverse enough. You can also decide what kind of media to study: newspapers, television, magazines, cinema, radio, Internet and so forth. Generally, you should be looking at how media reflect the region culturally, economically, political and internationally. Asian Subcontinent media. Basically, this is a broad region that includes Pakistan, Bangladesh, Napal, India, and Sri Lanka-a richly diverse set of systems that reflect the diverse ethnic, political and cultural mixes, each with their own set of special circumstances that are reflected in media. This should follow a standard academic format in American Psychological Association (APA) style. If you need help on the format, the University's writing center can help. Use it; that's why it is there. The center can provide invaluable support, and can help raise your grade. A standard academic paper, 12-15 pages in length, is organized as follows: I. Introduction. Introduce the topic and explain why it is important. Clearly say what you are intending to study and why it is important. List your primary research question and secondary research questions (don't pick too many). These secondary questions will help you formulate a hypothesis or general statement. II. Literature Review. What have other scholars written about this issue? You don't have to go into a lot of detail about their...
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...Business and Economics Spring semester 2013 Master thesis, two-year, 15 hp ABSTRACT Cultural diversity is a subject that has been getting growing attention not just internationally but also in Sweden in the 21st century. The globalization of economies and the migration has dramatically increased opportunities while also affecting organizations in a manner that it requires it to be more open and accommodative towards a heterogeneous working environment. Unfortunately many companies do not see the advantages that cultural diversity could bring and how a well managed cultural diversity could essentially achieve competitive edge in the market. Therefore there is little is to be found regarding how organizations today view and manage a culturally diverse workforce, especially in a Swedish working environment. The lack of this type of research in a Swedish context creates a possible research gap and leads to this study in investigating the organizations in Västerbotten and their view and management of cultural diversity. Thus the research question: How do Swedish organizations view and manage cultural diversity? In order to gain insights in to this question, previous research has been investigated and some main theories have been selected. Through this it has been found that cultural diversity is a complex subject that can bring both positive and negative effects to an organization. These are in turn affecting how cultural diversity is viewed by that organization. Furthermore, this...
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