feeling uncertain about how to proceed and how to respond to historically marginalized students. There is pressure to acknowledge and accept students of color with different perspectives, to diversify the syllabi, be more aware of classroom dynamics, and pay attention to how students of color experience the learning process. Changes are not easy; they come with disruption, conflict, confusion, and fear. European American students and faculty alike might be uncertain about how to proceed, what the outcome
Student Research Paper Competition in the Master’s Category: First Place for “Social Support and Depression among Male Nursing Home Residents” Introduction Because of aging process of human population observed in most parts of the world, there is a need for culturally competent research on various factors accompanying aging, including racial and ethnic diversity of older people in the U.S. For example, differences between men’s and women’s needs in nursing care facilities should be examined in
Introduction: Global surgical interventions are a neglected, yet desperately needed, facet of global public health. Common global health approaches, such as prevention of disease through vaccination, are an absolute necessity. However, surgery is often overlooked as a sustainable, effective intervention because of erroneous beliefs about cost efficiency and fears over inadequate infrastructure. While these problems can hamper effective surgical interventions, this paper aims to show that global surgery
Due to finding my voice, I was attended the safe on campus training. In the nine of participants, there are LGBTQ students and employees who are identified as LGBTQ. The main reason attending the training is to recognize violent preventions on campus. Moos (1991) noted understanding climate to form physical nature of the human behavior could be intervening marginalized group of students. The training was organized by office of diversity and inclusion at WMU. The Safe on Campus training provides information
five million students miss nearly a month of school every year. Some research shows that missing just eighteen days out of the school year-- or two days out of every month-- can bear negative results on a student’s academic performance. And in the U.S., an estimated one-hundred-sixty-four-million school days are lost each year due to sickness among kindergarten to twelfth grade students. Though the average student misses four and a half days of school each year due to sickness, students with chronic
Obesity and Diabetes in the Cherokee Tribe Student Name: Joseph Kroon EID: jak3669 Student Name: Gabriela Longoria EID: gll473 Student Name: Kacie Petrequin EID: kap3254 Student Name: Alize Hassan EID: ah45488 Student Name: Ryan Keyho EID: rk22897 Student Name: Emily Zhang EID: ecz229 1. Name of Underrepresented and Marginalized Culture Receiving Intervention: The Cherokee Indians 2. Title of the Intervention: Reducing the Prevalence of Obesity and Diabetes
family and friends supersede any other activity. At the University of Oklahoma, LWB students demonstrate unity and the ability to work as a team. They pursue what they believe to be excellent and vital in enhancing the group’s cohesion. Usually, the group interest comes before that of an individual. The social support system within the organization has played an imperative role in the survival of Latino students at the college. The shared history of most of the Latinos could be their primary unifying
theory, and critical study. The following will detail what the methods are and how they could be used in a classroom at Stephen Decatur Middle School. The research question being utilized for each example scenario is “will the use of audio books increase engagement for seventh grade special education students during independent reading sessions?” Ethnographic Ethnographic studies are in depth and focus on culture. “Ethnography has been the primary mode of study in anthropology for many years” (McMillan
The issue of race has always had a distinct influence throughout human history. The United States is no exception to the complexities surrounding race and social understanding and it has its own unique history of racial inequity, discrimination and other heinous atrocities. While the civil rights era helped defeat a lot of the most visible forms of racial impediments. The seemingly invisible forms of racial discrimination, like institutional racism is still a major problem in society. “Unlike in
revolutionary time when historically marginalized populations demanded for equitable treatment. Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964, did not directly refer to ELLs, it did allow for there to be a focus on the treatment of minority populations all across America. As language minority students, ( children who reside in homes where the main language is not English), are a minority population, the Civil Rights Act did allow for conversations concerning what to for these students to enter the discussion. With