...Issues in Multicultural Education As we enter the second decade of the 21st century there are new, recurring, and emerging threats to multicultural education as a social justice movement in NC schools and communities. Multicultural education issues in NC have been the subject of discussion throughout multiples universities and political groups all around the entire state. The state of public education is necessary to the extended discourse around international and intercultural education. Students’ experiences during the elementary and secondary years have important implications for their citizenship in a globally interactive world. Some schools of education have acknowledged the urgency for developing culturally competent teachers, while others grapple with ways to fit appropriate programs into their curriculum. University of North Carolina in Greensboro has a study with teachers over the past decade. The goal of this research is to help teachers—especially new or preserves teachers and those who implement multicultural science education because of district mandates or changing classroom demographics—understand the importance of multicultural science education and to provide teachers with a list of resources they can refer to for additional information and activity ideas. East Carolina University’s teacher preparation program at the beginning of 2007 consisted of using eight key questions to guide their inquiry of how ECU’s teacher preparation program relates to multicultural...
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...ISSUES IN MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION NAME: INSTITUTION: A multicultural setup brings people with diverse backgrounds together. The environment in the school should provide everybody with an equal opportunity to realize his/her full academic potential. The diversity should offer a unique learning experience for every individual within the community. However, racism comes up as a major issue in a diverse cultural setup. Racism cuts across the society and it affects the education system. Racism adversely affects the education of diverse students in our community. In spite of numerous attempts for all humanity to have equal treatment, racism exists in our education system. It is evident that racism in our education system contributes to the dismal performance of students from minority groups. Personal observations highlight the fact that racism affects the academic lives of those students who are racially abused. In our education system, the students mostly affected by racism are those from the minority groups. The students mostly affected by this problem are of African and Asian descent. It involves discrimination against these students by fellow students, instructors at schools and through policies which ignore the special needs of this minority groups. Racism as a problem needs a comprehensive approach in finding a solution. The solution should be all inclusive involving the students from these underrepresented groups, the policy makers at school, fellow students from...
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...Issues in Multicultural Education Effective instructors must understand the issues that impact multicultural education in the United States. The significance of providing an eminence instruction in an unbiased approach to all of their students is essential. The tide of demographic changes in the United States has affected most classrooms in our schools. As a result, some classroom teachers realize they must quickly acquire a comprehensive understanding of ethnic, cultural, and social-class diversity present in today’s schools. Otherwise, these teachers will face difficulty in classrooms comprised of fifty-one percent minority students. (Texas Education Agency, 1993) Nonetheless, traditional teachers with no experience in multicultural education training is a significant issue in Texas. Dayton Independent School District’s mission statement states, The mission of Dayton Independent School District is to educate all students to the maximum extent of their abilities and to challenge them to excel in a changing world. The fundamental purpose of Dayton Independent School District is to develop in all students the essential academic skills and knowledge of which to build lifetime learning. All students are taught a core curriculum of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Fine Arts, Health, Physical Education and Technological Literacy. All students will be expected to acquire a knowledge of citizenship and economic responsibilities and an appreciation of...
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...School Environment Analysis Essay Brandon M. Myers Grand Canyon University EDA-575: Educational Leadership in a Changing World Professor Harkins April 16, 2014 School Environment Analysis Essay There are a variety of contextual factors that can affect the teaching and learning process in a school or classroom. There are four main environmental factors that affect the learning process in a school that is located in a rural area. When setting up a positive classroom environment and school for learning, educators must consider the environmental factors of their community, school, and district; in addition to the classroom and student characteristics that are associated with those environmental factors. Environmental Factors of a Community The four main environmental factors that can affect a school located in a rural area include, but are not limited to community support, geographic location, socio-economics, and political climate. My community is located in more a rural area, where there is a lot of farming; therefore all of these environmental factors affect my learning community. There are mainly low to middle class people that live in my community with the majority of them being a part of the Democratic Party. My community is a very supported one. With that being said, many members of the community look out for each other and are involved in many activities in order to show their support. Due to the low socio-economic status of the community, the school has several...
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...Education, one of the basic components of a child’s life, has become one of the most important civil rights issue of our time. Specifically, this pertains to students after they graduate from high school. Education does serve as the “the balance-wheel of the social machinery” but this is only true until students reach high school (Source A). Beyond that, it divides students by rich and poor classes, and starts an infinite cycle of distribution. This is a primary effect of the financial inequalities that exist in today’s society. Education is not the civil rights issue of our time, but is certainly one of the most important ones. One of the most foremost concerns in today’s society is unequal economic opportunities. Education is a primary effect...
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...Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1999, 30(6), 1432±1440 Issues and innovations in nursing education Evaluation of an innovative curriculum: nursing education in the next century 1 Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa Hasida Ben-Zur PhD Dana Yagil PhD Lecturer, Faculty of Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa and Ada Spitzer RN PhD Senior Lecturer and Head of Nursing Department, Faculty of Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Accepted for publication 22 March 1999 BEN-ZUR H., YAGIL D. & SPITZER A. (1999) BEN-ZUR Journal of Advanced Nursing 30(6), 1432±1440 Evaluation of an innovative curriculum: nursing education in the next century The present research focused on an interim evaluation of a new nursing curriculum made by ®rst- and second-year undergraduates. Study 1 examined the assessments made by 90 students of the new, actual programme of their studies, as well as an ideal one, on 21 bipolar criteria re¯ecting the developing changes in health care practices and higher educational processes in western society. The results of study 1 indicated that students perceived the actual programme as compatible with health care changes, but lacking in terms of the learning process. Study 2 investigated the same assessments among 105 registered nurses who evaluated the traditional nursing programme under which they were trained as well as an ideal one. The results of study 2 showed that registered...
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...Class in Modern British Education For this assignment I have been asked to write about a current issue in Further\Higher Education. I have chosen to discuss some of the issues of social class as they relate to education policy in modern Britain. Following the right to vote, the right to education is a freedom which people throughout history and around the world have struggled to achieve. “There is a sense in which social class has been at the core of British sociology of education throughout the existence of the field, even when it has not been high on education policy agendas.” (Whitty, 2001, p.287) While issues and effects of social class exist in all countries, the English experience is particularly problematic. (Goldthorpe, 1996) In the United Kingdom at the turn of the 19th century a university education was a privilege enjoyed by the sons of the wealthy and influential. Although members of the social elite “passed through the universities, they rarely completed their degrees. The subsidiary mission of the pre-industrial universities was to complete the socialisation of future elites, social and political”. (Scott, 1995, p.12) The last two decades have witnessed a considerable amount of rhetoric with regard to improving this situation; with access and inclusion being the keystones of nearly every government policy issued. New Labour went so far as to announce in its election manifesto an explicit aim of increasing participation in higher education to 50 per cent of 18 to...
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...Introduction The issue that I am bringing up in my Physical Education Issues Analysis is “Should college be required to go pro in any sports today?”. The reason for this being an issue in sports is that lots of talent is going to waste today due to these people either being injured, or not passing college. This is a big issue because college can be a very hard journey to go through and can lead to many problems along the road. Analysis Argument for: Athletes should be able to make their own decisions and control their own future in their sport career. For some people, college is almost all risk with little reward, just one injury can end a career and they aren’t paid so much as a monthly salary/allowance for their playing time. Rookie contracts...
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...International Capstone: Barriers to Higher Education – Gender Issue * Gender Issue in Higher Education – Russia Perspective * Increasing Level of Female Participation in Higher Education Over the last 10 years of economic reforms, the educational system, including higher education, has changed a great deal. The number of students at higher educational establishments rose by almost 40%, mainly because of the increase in women students. In 1992-2000, the number of male students rose by 327,000 or 25%, while the number of female students, by 763,000 or 50%. * Lack of Gender Awareness In access to education gender discrimination is less apparent than in other fields. 77% of women and 82% of men noted equal access to education in general, though 20% thought that women have fewer opportunities to receive education. In addition, the lack of gender awareness among decision makers in the higher education field is another problem. In Russia, there are no women ministers of education or heads of higher education departments. Thus, discrimination is more likely to develop when cross-group interactions are low, according to the contact theory. However, this clear underrepresentation of women at senior levels in both academic and administrative hierarchies is not perceived as an issue. * Gender Related Profession Discrimination Despite of the number, the fact that it is in the predominantly "female" professions where fees were introduced, while the traditionally...
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...Running head: OLDER ADULT PATIENT EDUCATION ISSUES Older Adult Patient Education Issues Lisa D. Johnican Grand Canyon University Older Adult Patient Education Issues The more a patient knows about his or her disease and understands reasons and methods for treatment, the better off s/he will be in the long run even if that long run is fatal. Patient education has significant benefits, including the improved ability of the patient to cope with the inevitable, more satisfaction with the care s/he receives, fewer complications and better recovery. Teaching older patients about their illness and strategies to cope with it will help them to feel more in control and better able to make decisions. Elderly people want to maintain independence and control their own lives and deaths. One of the best ways for older patients to have control over their health care options is through education. However, due to normal physiological aging, medical care professionals may have to change their teaching styles to adapt to the way older patients learn. Many older people deal with loss of functions that affect learning such as hearing and sight. When Alvin was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), he was aware of and understood the diagnosis. However, because of some hearing loss, those who spoke with him about it could not be sure if he understood. A few years later when he received the even deadlier diagnosis of bone cancer, his ability to understand what was...
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...Teacher unions have been intact for a long time, adapting to our ever-changing society and recently have caused a problem within the education profession. Unions were established to protect workers and to let them collectively bargain for wages, working conditions and benefits. In today’s society the teacher unions give teachers many benefits and protect them very well from being removed from their job once they receive tenure. A debate has risen concerning if teacher unions are harmful to public education and is discussed by many people in the education profession, parents and even students. An article written by Grace Chen, “Are Teacher Unions a Help or Hindrance to Public Education?” considers both sides of the debate and how they affect education reforms. Chen states how teacher unions have had a long history that has led to high teaching standards, ensurance of student achievement and rooting out corruption in the education profession. Chen brings up in her article that unions have a strong influence and teachers that are apart of these unions are more effective teachers than those who are not. This is the main benefit for students and parents dealing with public teachers in unions and as Chen continues she seems to believe there is more problems than benefits. Teacher unions make it extremely difficult to fire or dispose of unfit or harmful teachers in today’s society. Unions protect teachers so much that receive tenure it becomes almost impossible to fire them sometimes...
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... | | |Course Title: |Assignment Number: | |Exploring Legal Issues in Higher Education |4 | | | | Learner’s Comment: Student Rights or Student Rights in Academic Dismissal Faculty Use Only Student Rights or Student Rights in Academic Dismissal Student Rights are highly protected with higher education through “Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The FERPA Law applies to all schools or universities that receive any funds from the Department of Education by federal or state government. The law protects the privacy of students and graduates education and student finance records. Furthermore, students also have rights in discipline, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, voting rights, privacy, gay rights sexual harassment and many others that are protected by the school, Department of Education as well as the government. The “Bill of Rights” has had a considerable amount of influence on higher education’s policies based on the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Tenth Amendments....
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...Running head: OLDER ADULTS PATIENT EDUCATION ISSUES ESSAY AND Older Adults Patient Education Issues Essay and Interview Older Adults Patient Education Issues Essay and Interview As healthcare professional, caring for the older adult as a patient is an important and sensitive matter, which requires respect and tolerance because of the generational differences that usually exist between the health professional and the patient. In this 20th century the number and proportion of older persons living in the United States has increased dramatically (Falvo 2011 p.297) representing more than 26% of the United States population. These older adults, including baby boomers place tremendous demands on healthcare due to aging and pathological changes, but they also require lots of support from their professional caregivers and their own children. Studies have shown that the incidence of illness and associated disability increase with age and that over 80% of older adults suffer from multiple chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis or chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. In addition to these diseases the older adult is confronted to the normal physiological changes that occur with aging such as cognitive and sensory changes. The older adult who is challenged with visual or hearing problems but is sick will promptly require medical attention and treatment thus the involvement of a healthcare professional with the help of a third party such as a family...
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...New times for education Issues of development & Fairness RUBEN DE FREITAS CABRAL SYMPOSIUM – RICCI INSTITUTE 27 NOVEMBER 2009 MACAU The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. The implication of these words from E. B. White, a famous American writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, refers to something that happens to the vast majority of people in the developed and in large segments of the developing worlds, which is schooling. Hardly anybody denies the importance of schooling. At the very least, places must exist where parents can leave their children, especially when both have to go to work for the better part of the day. The relevance, however, of what happens in schools is another matter. Schools are still mired in the predicament of transmitting and withdrawing known knowledge, if that is at all possible. It is the process that Paulo Freire used to call the banking concept of education: The teacher makes deposits in the heads of students which are followed by period withdrawals (tests, quizzes and all other manners of justifying the purpose of supposedly depositing knowledge). Freire goes on to say that For apart from inquiry, apart from praxis, men cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry men pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. (…) Yet only through communication can human...
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...PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION BACKGROUND SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SARAWAK CAMPUS 4235614 Fanny Angga Kartikasari 4216989 Abdul Afiz Nuhu 4204069 Abdulahi Baba Ari 4230590 Indeewari Kumarage 4213475 Norazreen Bt Mohd Rafi 4194071 Nur Azura Mohammad PIIT Project – University Information System Table of Contents Abstract ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 4 TOE Framework ................................................................................................................................. 6 Methodology....................................................................................................................................... 7 ITIL Framework ................................................................................................................................. 7 Hypotheses.......................................................................................................................................... 8 Data Analysis .................................................................................................................................... 14 6.1 Policy Statement ................................................
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