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Listening the forgotten skill- text book
The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance or respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of: race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, physical abilities, religious or political beliefs and ideologies.
It is the exploration of these differences in a safe positive and nurturing environment. It is about understanding each other and moving beyond simple tolerance to embrace and celebrate the rich dimensions of diversity contained within each individual.
In class discussion- Maple Leaf
Culture: is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts
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Communication: the imparting or exchanging of information or news.
How we understand, manage and celebrate diversity matters as schools are the setting for students to build and test relationships. Students with cultural and racial diversity are anxious and are, or become the focus for bullying behavior. Schools need to be the support for students to see past color differences and celebrate cultural differences.
4) Values & Beliefs: knowing cultural values and beliefs can reign important when working with diverse students and families
ex. Ramadan (Fast)
A student belonging to the Islam religion, could be experiencing, Ramadan, as a setting event. Not having any food and drinks can definitely impact their performance. Lack of understanding over this cultural event can be portrayed differently to others. Absence of food and drinks becomes the trigger for that students behavior. That individual may be seen as grumpy for these reasons, when in reality they're extremely weak.
Students who attend schools with a diverse population can develop an understand of the perspectives of children from different backgrounds and learn to function in a multicultural multi-ethnic environment. Yet as public schools become more diverse demands increase to find the most effective ways to help all students succeed academically as well as learn to get along with each other.
Teachers are faced with the challenge of making instructions "culturally responsive" for all students will not favor one group over another.
Attending a school with a diverse student body can help prepare your child for citizenship in a multicultural democracy.
As the western world becomes more culturally and ethnically diverse, public schools are becoming more diverse too.
Culture determines what words mean. While for many concrete words (like dog or cat), the definition is pretty stable over time, and more abstract words (like gay or queer) take on different meanings, meanings which reflect cultural values.
In addition, culture is responsible for who gets to communicate to whom.
Low-status individuals are given less rights to speak and be heard.
High-status members are encouraged to speak and their words carry greater weight.
3) Gender: plays into effect culturally when it comes to communication because it determines who has higher rights when it comes to speaking
ex. Males have more rights in some culture containing communication
Females can only speak, when spoken to, they require permission from a male
How this effects the school setting?
female students may not openly choose to speak in group participation settings, because no one had specifically given them permission to do so. This can be perceived as lack of intelligence as a result of her non verbal behavior. Which could also lead to misdiagnosis.
Examples: 1) in some cultures children are raised to practice speaking when taught too and avoid eye contact with elders.
2) Tone of voice: comes into play for some cultures as well. A loud tone may not necessarily portray anger in their community. However if not educated this can be perceived differently to someone who is not familiar with the cultural tone of voice.