Cultural Diversity Presentation Alyssa Garcia ELL240 Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Learners Instructor Amy Breitenbucher July 6, 2014 In Chapter 11 and 12 of our text illustrates the need for schools and teachers to connect with families and English Language Learners. “The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory found compelling, research-based evidence that when schools and families work together, student achievement spikes, particularly in low-performing schools’’(Syrja 81)
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Family is a set of relationships The main tension we have talked about is the how the family exists in reality and how we view the family We organize ourselves as families because of economics, continuity, communication, convenience and efficiency The myths from the textbook are that marriage is universal, family harmony, you are what your family is, and the stable past The three revolutions: Post industrial – life and modernity, evolution of life, altered family with technology, work
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exposed to a wide set of diversity. People of different ethnics, cultures, sexual orientations, religions, etc. I had the luxury of seeing the differences in people at such a young age. Being black and white, living in a family that was predominantly white was hard to understand. I asked the questions like “why was I different,” and “why my skin color was brown and not white,” like my mothers and siblings. But living in California it was easy seeing others just like me. Its diversity influenced how I acted
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Sherrie Joyner January 24, 2015 English Comp II Professor Wall Essay 1 Family Relationships: How Roles of Families Have Changed When the word family comes to mind, what do you think of? I think of a father, mother, children and extended family-such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. Although, historically known as a typical family, nowadays family has a list of different meanings. Growing up, family was always an important part of whom I was and who I would mold my life around
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up in the close-minded small town of Tooele, Utah was not an experience that one would consider entertaining by any means. Right before I entered second grade, my family moved to a smaller city in order to escape the booming Salt Lake City. I had to enter into a new school with no friends and to top it all off, most of my extended family stayed near Salt Lake City, almost an hour away from our new town. On my first day of school, I experienced immediate problems: because I was not a member of the
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is a country of diversity represented by many different cultures. It has been proven that culture has a significant impact on health beliefs and behaviors (Edelman, et al, 2014), therefore it is imperative that health care providers, especially nurses, be culturally competent in their delivery of care. It is not enough to merely be aware of the prominent origins and statistics of different cultures and ethnicities, but rather it is crucial to be inquisitive and focus on the family and individual
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harder than immigrating to a foreign country where you do not understand the language and have to do your best to help yourself as well as your family. Growing up in my situation may seem like a disadvantage
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community to get my education rights. I always believed women should pursue education and that education was the way to improve life. My family was a big support in building my self confidence in the beginning. They always supported me throughout my schooling in Pakistan. Even though community took me negatively, my family understood me and supported me. My family helped me construct my identity at home and pushed me for education. The other important aspect that helped me construct my identity was
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In Wayson Choy’s novel The Jade Peony, Meiying is a bright girl whose forbidden relationship with Kazuo is continually impeded by racism. Meiying attempts to maintain this relationship but since she isn’t capable of coming to an equilibrium, the Chinese and Japanese teen couple living in Vancouver is forced to break up. Throughout the duration of the Second World War, the Canadian-Japanese are strongly discriminated against by the Canadian-Chinese. The “tall”, “elegant”, and “smart” (238) babysitter
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of people in the United States. A nurse who is entrusted with the care of clients and their families must recognize the value and importance of providing culturally appropriate care (Giger & Davidhizar, 2004). Variations of ethnicity, religion, values and beliefs also make it imperative for nurses to understand that the experience of human diversity is very personal. “The immutable dimensions of diversity; ethnicity, race, gender, and sexual orientation, are socially determined to be important and
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