Standard 2 describes an administrator’s ability to recognize cultural and social factors that affect pupil performance. The case study is based upon the recognition that music text books tend to be biased towards the Caucasian culture. This bias may make students of differing cultures feel uncomfortable when engaging in the curriculum. When a student does not feel comfortable, then they will not perform to the best of their ability. The identification of this bias shows proof of the ability to recognize
Contents I. Abstract - Experience in the company - Change Proposition II. Introduction - Understanding the culture - Adjusting the diversity III. Define Problem - Existing Culture of the company - Change to the culture ? Success. IV. Body of Paper - The existing culture of the company ? In detail - The culture adjustment required - The location based and understanding the culture - Immediate change and time
teams are intended to pool resources and increment operational efficiencies, the cultural diversity of team members may create a better learning curve for establishing effective process than culturally homogeneous groups (Gibson & Vermeulen, 2003). Culture contrasts can also make considerable obstacles to successful operation, however these may be unobtrusive and hard to perceive until significant damage has already been done. Managers and individuals from multicultural teams are confronted with the
focus on the babies, their environment and interactions. Through subtitles, this film reveals the different locations the footage of the four newborns are from. By viewing the babies different upbringings from different cultures, we learn how the various lifestyles of each culture impacts a child’s development. The babies are Hattie from California, Mari from Japan, Bayar from Mongolia, and Ponijao from Namibia.The film shows the infancy and toddlerhood period of the babies as well as their development
decade of diverseness these children are taught by the typical white, middle class, Christian, female teacher? As a result of the heterogeneity of our schools, community, and country educators must incorporate instruction that blends the different cultures and experiences into the twenty-first century classroom. By integrating multicultural and global education, students will gain the knowledge, skills, and demeanor to successfully participate in a diverse society. According to the book Multicultural
moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are relative to culture and therefore equally valid. This is the chief argument to support the anti-foundationalist view of the pre-Socratic era that denies the possibility of an ethical or moral foundation, because of the multitude of cultural differences in ethical values. In essence, the argument is that as a product of society, individuals are subject to the standards imposed by their culture, which in turn implies that those standards
of this traditional form of clothing, both films have an emphasis on the traditional values of society as represented through the older generation depicted in the films. However, in both films, the younger generation conflicted with this orthodox culture in that they tried to separate from the traditional values. For example, in The Vow, Jacob broke away from many of his values in his time in Vilnius through performing activities such as changing his clothing after receiving criticism from the more
In my culture, the environment is clean. We have clean houses, clean community spaces, and clean schools. We tend to avoid places that are dirty. The housing is generally sufficient for our needs, and we have compassion for those whose living spaces are not suitable for their lifestyle. Yet no person in my culture would offer their home or car to someone who needed it more. Appearance is extremely important in my culture. The people in my culture are expected to dress neat and clean. It
just like verbal communication, the language of nonverbal cues can be extremely different from one culture to another. There are some elements of nonverbal communication which do seem innate to the biological nature of all humans, but the majority of nonverbal cues are essentially culturally dependent. Nonverbal behaviors are a powerful tool for facilitating communication within particular cultures or regions. There are a number of meanings and methods that are employed with the use of nonverbal
A Thousand Year History written by physicist and historian Arnold Pacey explains his unique “global view” of the evolution of technology differing from the common Eurocentric view of this topic dating back to Greek civilizations. The book is consisted of eleven chapters that chronologically depict the creative inventions in technology throughout several cultures across time in history, starting from the early days in 700 A.D. to the very recent historical events in the 1980’s. Technology in World