... I am the benefactor of strong mentorship, which has resulted in opportunities for me to publish six peer-reviewed articles with interdisciplinary, intra-university, and multi-culturally diverse research groups. As a female Mexican-American, I proud to be a part of Texas A&M University’s (TAMU) commitment to increase minority enrollment. My research interest in health disparities is rooted in my personal experiences. Growing up overseas and living along the U.S. – Mexico border, I have witnessed inequality in terms of a lack of access to: affordable housing, potable water, sanitation, education, and healthcare services. My awareness and appreciation of...
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...of the music are suppressed by the machetes constantly clashing and the drum-like thumps of your heartbeat. Next, you prepare to squat and perform the machete choreographies between your legs and behind your back. Your quads and calves begin to falter from continually supporting your intricate movements. This is what I have consistently prepared for the past 15 years as a performer of Folkloric Mexican dances. Promoting and embracing my Hispanic heritage is part of what I value and who I am. Throughout my college career as a sophomore thus far, I have been able to tutor my peers, represent Oregon in other states, serve as a mentor for high school students, conduct scholarship workshops for underrepresented students, promote my culture, and even represent OSU at the U.S. Department of Education speaking on behalf of my parent’s journey to the United States and my journey to college. In terms of assisting people with impoverished backgrounds, I have volunteered my time at Vina Moses. Delivering food and toys to families throughout the holidays. Whenever places such as Vina Moses ask for assistance, I am the first one there to help out. The reason for this is because my family has witnessed first-hand what it means to require assistance from the community. As a result of this, I learned that assisting others in the community is truly...
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...Chapter 5 discusses the next component of equity audits which is programmatic equity. Programmatic equity focuses on programs within our institution. The four most common program inequities are special education, gifted and talented education, bilingual education, and student discipline Skrla et al. (2009). As a result of these four current program inequities, I would begin by making a commitment within the school to create a school initiative equity project to maintain social justice in our school environment. Since these are programs that affect all students, I believe they should be a part of the audit. Hence, I would have my 8th graders from one of the school organizations to be part of the team. At this level, they will be able to...
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...of adult learning, there is no overarching theory that encompasses all the nuances of academic advising as a field of study and as a practice. Contrarily, academic advising draws upon a wide array of theories, sometimes borrowed from other fields, such as education and the social sciences. According to Hagen and Jordan (2008), various approaches have been identified and suggested as successful models of academic advising. Up until the 1970’s, prescriptive advising was dominant and characterized by a traditional relationship based on authority between the academic advisor and the student. The relationship...
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...My primary interest lie in exploring the barriers and opportunities for the inclusion and participation of African Americans, and communities of color, in marine and fisheries science fields. I am interested in examining how cultural differences, access to resources, and historical connections with the environment affects interest and engagement. In addition, I am interested in exploring ways to utilize informal science education and citizen science programs to reduce the communication gap between science, policy, and communities; and as outlets for students, especially from underrepresented communities to engage in marine science fields. Realizing that there is not a “one size fits all” method when it comes to science education, it is important explore ways to shift the narrative of who can and should be a marine scientist. As a community organizer, I have learned the importance of meeting people where they are and the value of developing relationships and confidence among people, to contribute to decision-making processes. In my experience organizing community of color around...
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...Education, Socialisation and Citizenship: Structuralists: Focus on purpose of education for wider society. Consensus Perspective: Functionalist- Emphasise positive effects Conflict Perspective: Marxist & Feminist- Critical Functionalist- Consensus Perspective Durkheim * Education important in preventing anomie * Being taught history important; teaches shared heritage, integration and solidarity. * Family based on affective (affectionate) relationships. Society is based on instrumental (mutual self- interest). School teaches instrumental relationships gradually- ‘easing’ them into it! Parsons * Education teaches the value of achieved status’ rather than ascribed. * Education teaches universalistic standards- rather than the particularistic standards seen in family * Competition, equality and individualism are taught within education. These are crucial to capitalism and cannot be taught in family due to its cooperative nature. Marxism- Conflict Perspective Schools make proletariat passive and resigned to their fate. Making sure they don’t rebel! Althusser * Education acts as an Ideological apparatus- ‘brainwashing’ Apply this to schools, it can be argued hidden curriculum teaches obedience etc. and punishes free thinking. Official Curriculum teaches that alternatives to capitalism as dangerous! Study: Bowles & Gintis (1976) Schools mirror workplace. This is the correspondence principle, and it prepares children...
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... My academic experiences serve as an important framework that better allows me to understand and identify with a diverse range of students. My experiences of being a first-generation college student with English as a second language present the main ideals that are the backbone of my educational philosophy. As an academic advisor my primary mission is to help students navigate successfully through their academic careers while exploring their educational and career options. My immediate responsibility is to prepare students to be self-sufficient and life-long learners. My obligation is to contribute and remain attentive to issues pertaining to student services and retention. This is especially important when addressing the needs of underrepresented and underserved students. The use of a wide range of advising technique is essential to engaging students of diverse backgrounds. In today’s academic environment, the concept of “traditional” student is virtually outdated. What we once understood as a “standard” type of student is replaced by a student body consisting of individuals of all types of...
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...Achievement Gap In modern times, education is becoming more and more valued. Today, education is the key to success. Parents and educators stress day in and day out how important it is to receive a quality education and take advantage of it. However, a disturbing gap has formed and has divided students. This gap is most commonly known as the achievement gap. The achievement gap ultimately refers to the difference in performance of specific groups of students based on economic classes, race and gender. The achievement gap is continuously growing and is more prevalent in some cities than others.. In the Midwest the achievement gap is primarily between white students and black students. This achievement gap is due to both internal and external...
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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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...Multicultural education relates to education and instruction designed for the cultures of several different races in an educational system. This approach to teaching and learning is based upon consensus building, respect, and fostering cultural pluralism within racial societies. Multicultural education acknowledges and incorporates positive racial idiosyncrasies into classroom atmospheres. Generally speaking, multicultural education is predicated on the principle of educational equity for all students, regardless of culture, and it strives to remove barriers to educational opportunities and success for students from different cultural backgrounds. In practice, educators may modify or eliminate educational policies, programs, materials, lessons, and instructional practices that are either discriminatory toward or insufficiently inclusive of diverse cultural perspectives. Multicultural education also assumes that the ways in which students learn and think are deeply influenced by their cultural identity and heritage, and that to teach culturally diverse students effectively requires educational approaches that value and recognize their cultural backgrounds. In this way, multicultural education aims to improve the learning and success of all students, particularly students from cultural groups that have been historically underrepresented or that suffer from lower educational achievement and attainment. Instructionally, multicultural education may entail the use of texts, materials...
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...“[An] increased consciousness and dissatisfaction surrounding these issues motivated me to deepen my understanding of how those interlocking systems of oppression specifically affect the schooling of low income and underrepresented students,” this quote was taken from Ikeisha Daniels during an interview. Daniels is a history instructor at the University of Chicago Carter G. Woodson middle school, where she comes in direct contact with the issues black students face in predominately African American schools. The circumstances of African American education in the United States are abominable in some communities compared to other ethnicities, which is taking a toll on the students, teachers, and families of the black educational system. The history...
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...Board of Education has been superficially taught to students in history classes for decades but hasn’t quite hit under the surface with the open discussion of the issues that have since followed a rather major step in the Black community. Brown overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson which deemed it equal and constitutional to segregate students of color from white students in schools ultimately. The ruling was supposed to integrate all students together and allow them to have an equal education amongst each other; however, Tyson explains that through school structuring this is inaccurate of what has happened. Tyson points out that the result of the slur “acting white” from racialized tracking is one of many explanations to why integration hasn’t been completely implemented into our school structure although it has been decades since the Supreme Court ruling. It stood out to me that she proved “acting white” wasn’t a sufficient answer to the often questioned achievement gap because predominately...
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...of time until today; behind every strong man is an even stronger woman. Throughout history, women have continuously made their imprint on the world. Women fought tirelessly to prove they could be just as good as their male counterparts. To assist in that effort, Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972 was created and implemented. How did Title IX really change the world? More importantly, how did Title IX impact females in the sports world. With that theory mind, the real question should be are women truly equal in the sport world? Is it a possibility to ever be truly equal with all of the obstacles in today’s society? Women in Sports “A strong woman believes that she’s strong enough to face her journey…but a woman of strength has faith that it is in this journey she will become strong!” Maya Angelo. 776 B.C. - The first Olympics are held in ancient Greece. Women are excluded, so they compete every four years in their own Games of Hera, to honor the Greek goddess who ruled over women and the earth. This is the first account of women competing in some type of sports. After many years of discrimination and not being offered the same opportunities, President Nixon signed the Title IX of Education Amendment on June 23th, 1972. Title IX must be explained and explored to how it affected not only women in general but more specifically, women in relation to sports. But after all of the advances with women’s right and freedoms, what struggles do women still face today? Can those...
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...The room smelled faintly of playdough and a loud crash rang from the back of the classroom as a tower of blocks collapsed. Nervously, I hung my pink backpack on a hook. My parents smiled down at me before leaving me in the increasingly chaotic preschool classroom. Throughout my first day, I heard an onslaught of new words. My head spun, why was no one speaking Chinese? Suddenly, there were “shoes” and “crayons” - two terms my mother had only taught me in Chinese. Every object my mother had taught me in Chinese now had a new English word. Education became a balance between Chinese and English. While in school, I was learning the English alphabet with the rest of my class; however, at home, I was learning Chinese numerals from my parents. My multicultural upbringing made understanding the western concepts taught in school while balancing my contrasting teachings at home difficult....
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...groups in tracked. Inadequate School Funding -All have high latino populations all have low pre student spending in their k-12 schools -How school funding affects student achievement -Peer conditions The digital divide -Latino student shave less access to the internet than do white students -Latino student are more likely to use technology for games and entertainment than for educational purpose. -Latino students are less like to have parents help them navigate a computer. -Students who have computers at home are more likely to succeed in school. The Affects of Curriculum Tracking -Many Latinos attend schools within a school where they are tracked into lower curriculum tracks programs that do not prepare then for higher education -Cannot always blame the parents or the schools but should blame city/state/ federal govt , for their inequitable...
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