The Advocates' Child Studies Blog

 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...

Blog: The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and Oppression What memory do you have of an incident when you experienced bias, prejudice, and/or oppression, or witnessed someone else as the target of bias, prejudice, and/or oppression? Keep in mind that one can encounter such incidents in real contexts, including online environments, as well as in fictional ones, such as movies, books, television shows, and the like             In my life endeavors and dispositions, I have encountered, witnessed and experienced bias, prejudice and oppression occasioned by Racism. As known, Racism is the discrimination prejudice or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's Race is superior. I am from three different Races, but it seems the Black race is less superior compared to the White race. People from the black race are sometimes inaccurately persecuted and tormented while conducting their daily...

Blog Assignment: Practicing Awareness of Microaggressions Describe at least one example of a microaggression which you detected this week or remember from another time. In what context did the microaggression happen? What did you think and feel when you observed the microaggression or when you found yourself as the target of a microaggression? Generally speaking, foremost as learned, a microaggression is the casual degradation or persecution of a given downgraded group. I have been able to detect an example of microaggression that was based on race. Unfortunately, Racism is still an ongoing menace in our societies. For one thing, I live in North Carolina, a small-town that is primarily populated by persons from the White race and sometimes individuals from the White race in my area do act as though they are superior to any group that is different, this is the name of the South prejudice and Racism. To make a long story short, one of my White equals invited me to a Spring Festiv...

Perspectives on Diversity and Culture My Perspectives on Diversity and Culture Which aspects of culture and diversity that I have studied in this course are included in the answers I received—and what are some examples?             Upon interviewing some colleagues on the definition of culture and diversity, I was able to relate then to the information I have studied in our class Perspectives on Diversity and Equity, my colleagues defined culture as the way in which people live and co-exist with each other. One of the colleagues explained that a culture needs not be a society or a natural person. A legal entity such as a school or institution can also have a distinct culture. Another colleague asserted that a person might possess more than one cultural setting at any given time. The final is because nowadays, the world is a global village and people assimilate various cultures in the endeavors and dispositions. Another ...

Blog: My Family Culture Blog: My Family Culture A description of the three items I would choose In a case of a disaster, as stipulated, I would choose the following three things to leave with. These things are dear to my heart and represent my family culture        Jewelry Box      My family portrait (pocket size)      My Bible How I would explain to others what each of these items means to me       Our family cherished the Jewelry box because my great-great-grandmother who was from Ireland made the jewelry box by hand as a little girl. My family portrait is of all twelve siblings, my mother, father, and grandparents. The family portrait has a pictorial representation of each of my family members in one shot, the portrait has a graphic representation of some of my great-grandparents. The family portrait signifies and expresses my cultural heritage and family diversity. My Bible serves as a s...

New Horizons for Learning Making Access Happen About New Horizons Journals Education Technology Resources Neurosciences Teaching and Learning Strategies Future Exceptional Learners Lifelong Learning Student Voices Evidence-Based Education Professional Development  >  New Horizons  >  Strategies  >  Topics  >  learning-styles Diversity, Learning Style and Culture by Pat Burke Guild    Without an understanding of the unique meanings existing for the individual, the problems of helping him effectively are almost insurmountable.   --Arthur Combs Educators do not believe that all learners are the same. Yet visits to schools throughout the world might convince us otherwise. Too often, educators continue to treat all learners alike while paying lip service to the principle of diversity. Teachers know that students learn in different ways; the experience in the classroom c...