Welcoming Families from around the World
Welcoming Families from around the World The name of “your” family’s country of origin As an early childhood professional, I do propose and choose “ Nigeria ” as the family’s country of origin. Nigeria is one of the 195 states that exist in the world today. Especially, I know nothing substantive about this country. At least five ways in which you will prepare yourself to be culturally responsive towards this family As stated, I am to receive a child and her family from a country i.e. Nigeria that is completely unknown to me. Having enrolled in a course about diversity, I have learned that in order to support families who have immigrated you need to know more than surface facts about their country of origin. This assertion means that I need to know more about the deep culture of the new child and her family rather than basically understanding their surface culture. Notably, being culturally responsive means having the ability and capacity to learn from a...