This week I experience a sexual orientation micro aggression. I was in church an a homosexual guy was in service. The row that he was on nobody would sit on that row because in their eyes he is different and people do not want to deal with things that are different. I feel they did not want to sit by him because his hair was long, mascara on his eyelashes, nails was long and manicured, and pants rolled up at bottom to sit on top of his shoes. I could scene that he was feeling uncomfortable because nobody would sit on his row. I got my purse and I moved from the row I was on and sat next to him. I spoke to him and told him my name. He smiled and told me his name. I knew that I made he feel comfortable to be at church. After church, he thanked me for coming to sit by him and I gave him a hug. He said he will be back next Sunday. I am glad that I did what I did because now he will feel more comfortable coming to our church.
My experience taught me that we need to change our way of thinking. We should treat all people the same way. We need to think really hard before we do or say something to people. Just because someone is different we should
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Perspectives of Culture and Diversity
The first person I talked with was a 20 year old Caucasian female. She defined culture as the way you do things, how you survive in this world including belief, morals, custom, and habits. She defined diversity has differences of culture, background, and experience among individuals and groups.
The second person I talked with was a 35 year old African American male. He defined culture as beliefs characteristics of an ethnic or age group. He defined diversity has the quality of its physical, social, cultural, and intellectual environment which embraces the rich difference within the human characteristics.
The last person I talked with a 54 year old mixed female. She was Caucasian and African American. She defined culture has shared patterns of behaviors and affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization. She defined diversity has the welcome and support of individuals from all groups encompassing the various characteristics of people in our community.
The Caucasian female really thought about the words to give me a definition that went beyond the surface layers of the words. Some of the comments she made was in our first week of class. The African American guy definition of culture was similar to mind before I started this course. His definition of diversity covered the person as a whole the same way we are learning this term in class. The last lady defined culture and diversity deeply going pass the first layer.
From talking with 3 of my friends I found that we all have our own definitions of the words culture and diversity but to some point we are all on the same page. I have learned that we have to go pass the outer skin of the words and must look deep into the words so that we cover it all.
The second person I talked with was a 35 year old African American male. He defined culture as beliefs characteristics of an ethnic or age group. He defined diversity has the quality of its physical, social, cultural, and intellectual environment which embraces the rich difference within the human characteristics.
The last person I talked with a 54 year old mixed female. She was Caucasian and African American. She defined culture has shared patterns of behaviors and affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization. She defined diversity has the welcome and support of individuals from all groups encompassing the various characteristics of people in our community.
The Caucasian female really thought about the words to give me a definition that went beyond the surface layers of the words. Some of the comments she made was in our first week of class. The African American guy definition of culture was similar to mind before I started this course. His definition of diversity covered the person as a whole the same way we are learning this term in class. The last lady defined culture and diversity deeply going pass the first layer.
From talking with 3 of my friends I found that we all have our own definitions of the words culture and diversity but to some point we are all on the same page. I have learned that we have to go pass the outer skin of the words and must look deep into the words so that we cover it all.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
My Family Culture
The three items that I would take with me are my deceased mother’s ring, my bible, and my sd card. I would take my mother’s ring that her grandma gave her at the age of 16 because she means so much to me. I will take my bible because that is what I live by on a daily basis. My bible will help me keep my faith walk going strong. It will also keep me on right track on knowing how to survive with it seems like everything is falling apart around me. I will take my sd card because I have all my pictures and videos of my family on there. I have all of my children important events on their from the time they were born. Most importantly I have our family last vacation with my mom on there and I enjoy watching it. If I had to give up one item that would be hard to choose which one because they are all important to me. Each of my three items has its personal meaning to me.
I learned that if you take me from my physical home I still have my culture. You can take all of my tangible things and I still will have my culture.
Sunday, June 24, 2012
When I Think of Research....
This course has taught me a lot about early childhood research. The process of research includes :
-selecting a topic
-search and review the literature
-formulate a specific research issue/question
-design the research
-collect data/information
-process/analyse data
-draw conclusions
-write research reports.
It was new to me that research had steps to follow to make the design complete. I also learned that there are different types of research designs and you must chose and follow the design that fits your research question.
With planning, designing, and conducting research it is important for you to chose a research question that is measurable. You have to do a lot of planning before you start conducting the research. Your design plan must match the type of research. I learned that you must get permission of the participants.
One challenge that I encountered was with my research question. I had to change several times so that it was able to be measurable. My perceptions of early childhood has grown from this course. Research in early childhood is important and it affects the way early childhood is viewed today.
-selecting a topic
-search and review the literature
-formulate a specific research issue/question
-design the research
-collect data/information
-process/analyse data
-draw conclusions
-write research reports.
It was new to me that research had steps to follow to make the design complete. I also learned that there are different types of research designs and you must chose and follow the design that fits your research question.
With planning, designing, and conducting research it is important for you to chose a research question that is measurable. You have to do a lot of planning before you start conducting the research. Your design plan must match the type of research. I learned that you must get permission of the participants.
One challenge that I encountered was with my research question. I had to change several times so that it was able to be measurable. My perceptions of early childhood has grown from this course. Research in early childhood is important and it affects the way early childhood is viewed today.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Research Around the World
The website that I researched is Early Childhood Australia. The international research topics range in topics. Some of the research topics that stood out to me were: Young Children as active learners, Young Gifted Children: Meeting their Needs, Engaging Families: Building Strong Communication, and The Early Years Learning Framework: Building Confident Learners.
From the website, I learned that Australia has some of the same concerns that the United States have about young children. We both want the rights of children to be heard, leadership, respect, collaboration, diversity, justice, and social inclusion of children.
I learned that the Early Childhood Australia’s Quality Assurance has six principles for evaluation. The six principles are relevance, authority, content, general design, navigation, and server performance and technical issues.
From the website, I learned that Australia has some of the same concerns that the United States have about young children. We both want the rights of children to be heard, leadership, respect, collaboration, diversity, justice, and social inclusion of children.
I learned that the Early Childhood Australia’s Quality Assurance has six principles for evaluation. The six principles are relevance, authority, content, general design, navigation, and server performance and technical issues.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Research that Benefits the Children and their Families
The topic that I would chose to make a major contribution to children and their families is making Pre-K full day versus half day. Children will learn a lot more coming to school 8 hours versus 3 hours. The students will be more successful in Kindergarten. I know that Pre-K is their first experience in school but they can handle coming to school all day and learning a lot more. Students will have more time to socialize with children their age. They can focus on Science, Math, and ELA each day instead of working only one two each day.
With Pre-K being all day it will save parents a lot of money because they will not have a daycare bill. Children will get a hot meal twice a day at school plus a snack before they go home. Pre-K all day is going to benefit everybody.
With Pre-K being all day it will save parents a lot of money because they will not have a daycare bill. Children will get a hot meal twice a day at school plus a snack before they go home. Pre-K all day is going to benefit everybody.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Your Personal Research Journey
The first topic I chose was poverty in the early childhood setting but after I did some searching I decided to change my topic to technology in the early childhood classroom. I chose the topic because technology is the way of the world and everything today deals with technology in some way or another. I want to find out how technology plays a role in the classroom, does it affect students social interaction, and is it developmentally appropriate for technology to be in an early childhood setting.
The research chart has open my eyes up to another way of seeing the research process. The key terms really was an eye opening experience. This journey is going to be a great one with this course breaking each step down during each week. The process seems to be more manageable.
The research chart has open my eyes up to another way of seeing the research process. The key terms really was an eye opening experience. This journey is going to be a great one with this course breaking each step down during each week. The process seems to be more manageable.
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