...provide a wide range of education in different subjects. Nursery classes in lily’s primary school aims are to support and educate children by giving them the early education they need in order to be ready for primary school. Children are in small groups with the same age group as themselves; therefore they would build a relationship with other children as well as mix with others who have a different background/culture and beliefs. They usually start at 9am -11:30am or 1pm-3pm. Most nurseries have extended provisions to work with families such as after school clubs, breakfast clubs and even holiday clubs. Private provision: These services work independently and are profits making as they are funded through the fees. These services are not funded by the government such as private nurseries, schools and day nurseries. They provide care and early year’s education to children. Alice private day nursery aims are to support children by giving them a friendly yet safe environment to plan and learn; this way a child can communicate with other children of different cultures and beliefs. The opening hours helps parents as they can...
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...Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior There are numerous and different ways of raising a child, and there seems to be a clear difference between the moral values of raising a child in dissimilar cultures. One of the more prominent and discussable ways of raising children is the Chinese way, which Amy Chua accounts for in her article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”. The writer is Amy Chua, a professor at Yale law school and mother of two Chinese and American children. Her topic is the differences between the Chinese and Western way of parenting. Since the article is published in The Wall Street Journal, which is only published in the Western countries, we can assume that her readers must be western people; mostly western parents. Her circumstances for writing this article, was that she wrote a book about how to raise your children, which she got a lot of criticism for, and then she wrote this article, because she wanted to explain and defend herself. One of her intentions with writing this article is to inform and explain why Chinese parents are raising their kids, as they do. Another intention is to defend the Chinese way of upbringing their children. At last, she wants to contrast Chinese parenting and Western parenting and explain how and why Chinese parenting, in her opinion, is more effective. A way to get the author’s attention across is by using anaphora. Numerous times throughout the essay Chua repeats “By contrast…” at the beginning of a sentence. By this, she...
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...should be taken by the teacher and the school system to ensure that the school curriculum has some relevance that is essential to every student, from all cultural backgrounds may learn from. How would I address these concerns in my class or school, would be to look at the diversity of my classroom. Then I would draft up a lesson plan that would reflect, all cultures in my class, from which all the children will be able to participate and learn from each other. I would implement a program called “Bring Your Heritage to School Week”, where for a week, each child would bring in something from home that reflects their culture or heritage to share with the class. Having a program like this, each child gets the opportunity to learn about others differences and under- stand why they are different in some ways, but they are all there for the same reason and that is to learn. If I had a child in my class who has a disability, I would have his parents or caregiver come to the class and explain why and how the child's disability occurred and why it is important to respect and threat the child just like all the other...
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...What is the issue? The issue being addressed in this brochure is that of parents being engaged in student learning both at home and school. This is more so an issue with EAL families for various reasons and can be addressed easily with all parties’ willingness. Why I believe there is an issue I have long heard from students that their parents are unable to help them with homework and take part in school activities. This may be for several different reasons but I have taken note of EAL students reporting that their parents are unable to help them with their homework because they are not able to understand and/or read the homework given. I volunteer at a school homework club, where students spend an hour with tutors completing their homework....
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...In this essay, the view that social class differences in educational underachievement are the result of school processes such as labelling will be assessed. Internal and external factors will be assessed with the use of researchers such as: Bernstein, Bereiter & Engelmann, Keddie and Howard. Internal factors such as labelling have been shown to effect education achievement. To label someone is to attach a meaning or definition to them. Becker carried out a study on labelling on 60 Chicago high school teachers, and found that they judged pupils according to how closely they fit an image of the ideal pupil. The pupils work, conduct, and appearance were key factors to the teachers’ judgements. Becker found that middle class children were closer to the image of the ideal pupil whereas the working class children were furthest away and seen as badly behaved. Cicourel & Kituse’s study of educational counsellors in an American high school shows how this labelling can disadvantage working class student. They found that the way in which counsellors would assess the student’s suitability for courses. They judged students on the basis of their class and/or race. Where students would have the same grades, they work more likely to label middle class pupils as having college potential and to place them on higher level courses. Rist did a study on an American kindergarten and found that the teachers used information about the children’s home, background and appearance to place them...
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...discussing normalisation and linking it with the concept of deviations. Outline the importance of the favourable environment in supporting normalisation. We going to explain the maturational nature of normalisation linked to the child’s growing socialisation. Also describing the teacher’s initial approach with new children. Explaining the change in the teacher’s role as each child begins to concentrate and focus on activities, and the impact this has on the child’s growing normalisation. Showing an understanding of why the child might regress. A child’s conversion is a physic cure, like returning to being normal. The ‘normal child’ would be one that is precociously intelligent, who has learned to be in peace and overcome him/herself, and who also prefers a difficult task in order to futile idleness. If we look closely we will see that the child has a different need to that of an adult, where the adult has reached the norm of the species but the child is in a constant state of metamorphosis. The integration that the child achieves is through work. This is when the normalisation of the child begins. All destructive behaviour is ceased and the process of physic integration starts. This means that the child spontaneously reverts to their normal character if the correct conditions prevail. “This is the single most important result of our work. The transition from one stage to another always follows a piece of work done by the hands with real things, work accompanied by mental concentration”...
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...What?: In society, race has always been an uncomfortable topic to talk about. Maybe the reason why people choose to be so closed minded when discussing race and racism is that they don’t know how to express their understanding of the topic. As Glenn E. Singleton and Cyndie Hays says in their chapter “Beginning Courageous Conversations about Race” we need to expect to feel discomfort when talking about a sensitive subject. They also state that we must be willing to move past the discomfort and work towards staying engaged, speaking the truth, and expect and accept a lack of closure (Singleton & Hays, 18-21). The author, Pollock wants the audience to understand or at least examine why it is important to address racism at a societal level and not just as an individual attitude. At the start of the book, Defining Everyday Antiracism, she states that, “We collectively define "racism" as any act that, even unwittingly,...
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...parents but understands when they are busy. He loves to play with his bike in the garden, and also the trampoline. He also enjoys his favourite blue toy car and his building blocks. Jordon’s hobby is playing football with his father. Jordon does not suffer from any medical issues or diseases; however he is allergic to egg which means that the nursery cook and staff need to ensure that they are extra careful with what they feed him. Overall this isn’t a great concern and other than that he is a healthy boy. Task 1: 1. Education through play: Schools & nurseries offer a wide range of services in order to stimulate the children. It also gives them a chance to interact with others whilst learning and gaining new skills. The most important and one of the main services is education through play. From my experience at Childs Play Nursery which we visited as a school trip, I found out that for young children to enjoy learning they have to physically engage in the activities. This is aimed at all the children who attend Childs Play Nursery as they are given fun, enjoyable and a range of different ways which include educational but also non-education activities. This could include numerous games including counting or learning the alphabet as a song, building blocks and getting them to count as they go along which would improve their numeracy skills. If the...
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...Sensitive Mothering is essential to the social and emotional development of the child. Discuss this statement in the context of relevant development theory. • Explain what is meant by the term Sensitive Mothering. Explain why sensitive mothering is important in building a positive emotional base. • Link this explanation to Bowlby’s attachment theory and Ainsworth’s studies. You will need to show an understanding of the internal working model of attachment and how sensitive mothering impacts the quality of attachment. • Links also need to be made to Erikson’s relevant psychological stages of personality development, emphasizing the importance of a supportive social environment. • Consider research that determines how early attachment impacts social and emotional development of three to five year olds and adults. Bowlby (1969 cited in Nicholls & Kirkland, 1996, p.55) states that an important element in the development of secure attachment is maternal sensitivity. This is necessary in order to engender an infant’s confidence in a mother's accessibility and responsiveness. Ainsworth et al (1978 cited in Barnes, 1995, p.14) opine that maternal sensitivity predicts the extent of attachment between mother and infant. “Mothers who are more sensitive, responsive, accessible and cooperative during their child’s first year are likely to have a child who develops a secure attachment”. Ainsworth et al, (1978 cited in Barnes, 1995, p.14) A sensitive mother thus is; ...
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...1.1 Explain the policies, procedures and current guidance of the setting relating to partnership working At Little Tigers we are commited to working alongside parents in the provision for their childs individual needs to enable us to help the child to develop to their full potential. The nursery is also commited to working with any child who has a specific need or disability and making reasonable adjustments to enable every child to make full use of the nurserys facilities. At Little Tigers we feel it is very important to find out as much as possible about a paticular childs condition and the way it may affect his or her early learning by ; - Liasing with the childs parents - Liasing with any professional agencies - Attending any review meetings...
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...Development Theories Sara Nackowicz Psy : 104 Child and Adolescent Development Karen Williams 9/17/12 Page One Development Theories In this paper I will talk about three of the development theories which are personality structure, psychosexual development and psychosocial development. All three of these developments are very important in a child’s life and helps them become who they are and I will explain how and why in this paper. According to Sigmund Freud in our text, there are three essential components: the id, the ego, and the superego. The id stage is more of a selfish state where everything is about you and only you. For an example when you are an infant everything is about you and only you. According to Simply Psychology, “The id consists of all the inherited (i.e. biological) components of personality, including the sex (life) instinct – Eros (which contains the libido), and aggressive (death) instinct – Thanatos.” In an infant, their personality is nothing but Id and then when they become older is when the other two stages fall into place. You cry for a reason and most of the time it is either because you are hungry, dirty, sleepy or even just need to be comforted. So there for you cry because you want your caregiver to feed you, clean you, or even snuggle with you so you can fall asleep. The ego state comes around the age of two or three when as Freud states, “the job of the ego to satisfy the demands of the id and to have realistic...
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...Culture Clash in the Movie Gua Sha Analysis A Chinese immigrant (Datong Xu) has great accomplishment in his career and a loving family, however, just because of a trivial matter, his life has gone differently. His father has come along to America to visit him. Dennis, who is the child of Datong, feels sick and undergoes a traditional Chinese treatment- Gua Sha by his grandfather. The treatment leaves marks on the child’s back and it is found accidentally by doctors and so, Datong is accused of child abuse. A number of culture clashes have been brought up in the movie. It is not the clash between Gua Sha and Western culture, it is the cultural values of Chinese and Westerners that clash. First of all, the clash between Americans and Chinese is conspicuous, particularly, their different perspective towards the concept of hitting children. At the beginning of the movie, Dennis gets in a fight with an American child who is the son of John (Datong’s boss). Datong is really angry and he hits Dennis in front of his boss publicly. In the middle of the movie, Datong quarrels with John. John says ‘I don’t understand why you hit your son.’ Datong replies ‘I hit him to give respect to you! To give you face!’ However, it is totally inconceivable to a Westerner because a westerner would never hit his/her children just to please the boss. That is why John replies furiously ‘What a twisted Chinese logic!’ In Chinese, there is a saying that goes ‘fighting is petting, scolding is loving.’ Most...
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...pap32045_ch02_022-053.indd Page 22 8/6/10 9:38 AM user-f469 2 CHAPTER TWO /Volumes/201/MHSF210/pap32045_disk1of1/pap32045_pagefiles pap32045_ch02_022-053.indd Page 23 8/6/10 9:38 AM user-f469 /Volumes/201/MHSF210/pap32045_disk1of1/pap32045_pagefiles A Child’s World: How We Discover It There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is,the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. —Charles Sanders Peirce, Collected Papers, vol. 5 Did You Know . . . Basic Theoretical Issues Issue 1: Is Development Active or Reactive? Issue 2: Is Development Continuous or Discontinuous? Theoretical Perspectives * Theories are never “set in stone”; they are always open to change as a result of new findings? * Children shape their world as it shapes them? * Cross-cultural research enables us to determine which aspects of development are universal and which are culturally influenced? * An experiment is the most definitive way to demonstrate that one event causes another? * The results of laboratory experiments may be less applicable to real life than experiments carried out in a home, school, or public setting? These are just a few of the interesting and important topics we will cover in this chapter. Here, we present an overview both of major theories of human development and of research methods used to study it. In the first part of the chapter, we explore major issues and theoretical perspectives that underlie much...
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...birthing practices with those in the United States. Because the Hmong culture varies so differently from that of American practices, significant traits can be compared from each way of life. One of these differing practices is childbirth. Typically, Hmong women do not go for regular checkups, let alone see any medical professionals, for the duration of their pregnancy. Once it comes time to deliver the child, the mother gives birth in her own home, by herself, without making a sound as to not “thwart the birth” (Fadiman 1997, 3). No epidurals, medication, housewives, or nurses are utilized and the mother tends to take care of everything on her own. The only assistance the woman receives is a cup of hot water, upon request, from her husband who must avert his eyes. The woman would stand as she delivers, pushing the newborn into her arms. Her husband would then cut the umbilical cord with a pair of heated scissors. Because the spiritual side of life is so important to the Hmong, the placenta would be buried in the family’s hut so that “when the [child dies] his or her soul [can] travel back from place to place, retracing the path of its life geography, until it reaches the burial place of its placental ‘jacket’ and [puts] it on” (Faiman 1997, 5). After birth, women were to eat and drink warm liquids and follow a strict diet of steamed rice and chicken boiled in water with five special herbs (Fadiman 1997, 9). The child’s body would be washed thoroughly using stream water. Other spiritual...
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...NAME: ARNEJO, MURIELLE ANNE C. BEED-ECEIII 1.Reflected diary-A reflective journal is a means of recording ideas, personal thoughts and experiences, as well as reflections and insights a student have in the learning process of a course. In addition to the demands of a typical written assignment (e.g. able to give definition on concepts, demonstrate basic understanding of course materials), reflective journal requires the students to think more deeply, to challenge their old ideas with new incoming information, to synthesize the course materials they have learnt into their personal thoughts and philosophy, and also to integrate it into their daily experiences and future actions. The benefits of the reflective learning process are usually accumulated over a period of time, in which the students usually show a series of developmental changes, personal growth and changes in perspectives during the process. 2.journal-journal is an academic magazine published on a regular schedule. It contains articles written by experts in a particular field of study, based on research or analysis that the author, or authors, did. That research might include case studies in the medical field, primary source research in the field of history, or literature analysis. Journal articles are written for experts or students of that particular field who have an advanced field-specific vocabulary and knowledge. A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis;...
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