The Advocates' Child Studies Blog

Think of someone (e.g., family member, celebrity, politician, friend, or professor) who demonstrates competent communication within a particular context. What behaviors does this person exhibit that make him or her capable? Would you want to model some of your own communication behaviors after this person? Why or why not? Barack Hussein Obama II As instructed, I am supposed to think of someone who demonstrates competent communication within a particular context. I think of Barrack Hussein Obama, an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. In his life as an active politician, he was a competent communicator within the political context among other settings. Barrack Obama portrays some commendable and progressive behaviors that have made him an effective communicator. Also, it is sound to understand that him being a political leader, he occasionally communicated with his people entitled to vote and fellow political ...

       Professional Hopes and Goals First and foremost, I am a hopeful and optimistic person with the desire to see the world that exists in harmony and stability. The world is more of a global village, and therefore it is our duty and responsibility to maintain peace and stability in the world. Working with children and families from diverse backgrounds is a goal that I am pursuing. In my pursuit of this fundamental aim, I hope that I will make people understand the need of embracing human diversity and receive the necessary support from the respective stakeholders. Though we live in a global village, we all have diverse backgrounds and social identities. Some people are of different races, diverse sexual orientation, and contrastive linguistics among other variations.  However, we as human beings shouldn’t let these variations be our source of conflict and disengagements. We should remember that no matter the differences in our social identities we all be...

 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 ...