Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Entry 14 - Diversities

FEB 14 EDPY

Diversities

**Socioeconomic status - (SES) Social science category. Placing individuals and their families in terms of their rank within a social and economic hierarchy. There is a powerful correlation to achieving socioeconomic status with the parents. A child coming from a high status is more likely to have a higher status but not ultimately if coming they are coming from a family of lower status.
Cultural capital - thinking about cultural that adds to socioeconomic status and the way it functions to achieve academic success. Understanding how to behave, how to talk (language), and how to dress (clothing). Cultural feature is associated with (SES). Dialect(speaking and communication). Ability to stay in your desk, fashion (keeping up with trends).
Reduce barriers- watch our attitudes especially our unexamined attitudes. Equally high expectations for all students, be sensitive to and consider where the student is coming from.
Multicultural education- Empowering students. To-pronged way. First is domination. Empower them towards wanting personal achievement, be all that they can be!! Second dimension - make a broader contribution to their classroom, community....improve the social life of their community. **Personal achievement and broader contribution.**

Kanu's 3 recommendations
1. The school curriculum should be openly anti-racist and anti-discriminatory.
2. Multicultural education should be part of every students education.
3. Students should be trained to be more conscious of culture. More aware of the culture - their own and others. Implications of your own culture. 

Questions for Thought
How, in your own life and school career, have you observed education and diversity done? What, if anything, would you like to do differently? Why?

People are faced with multiculturalism everyday, we do live in Canada, a country where a wide variety of races, ethnicity's, religions, and so on are accepted. Also everyone in this class attends a public college where diversity is welcomed and celebrated. We should feel lucky for this and take the time to learn from one another. It can never hurt to gain another viewpoint!





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