A description of the importance and benefits of valuing and promoting cultural diversity in work with children and young people…
Lindsey, R.B., Robins, K.N., & Terrell, R.D. (2010). Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders.…
Having cultural competence is something that is gained through experience with other cultures other than your own. This means understanding that different cultures do in fact exist and one must be aware that we are all different with different cultures. For me a time that I connected with a different culture in a work environment was a few years back when I was working as a driver and my assistant was an African man, very nice man, who was new to the job and I had to train him by showing him how things get done properly. When we would communicate it wasn’t that bad since he had studied the English language back home he only had some words that he couldn’t pronounce, so I would help him.…
Critically analyze definitions of cultural competence and describe in your own words, what is the definition of cultural competence?…
A culturally competent educator will be culturally sensitive and aware. They will understand, recognise and respect the variety of cultures within the centre at which they work and ensure they cater and accommodate the service to these groups of people. Cultural competence also ensures policies and procedures cater to all people and does not exclude the rights and values of any group of people.…
The Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations, known as the voice for public health nursing, was founded in the early 1980’s to address priorities for public health nursing education, practice, leadership, and research. There are eight domains of The Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations Core Competencies and the domain four is about cultural competency skills (Cravetz, Krothe, Reyes, & Swider, 2011). This domain generally ensures health care providers to recognize, respect and provide effective care to diverse individuals, families and groups. Professional Nursing class in BSN degree program provided me the deep understand of the cultural, internal and external attitudes, values, beliefs and evidence based practice…
For my interview on cultural competency I chose to go to a childcare center in the area. I decided to go to a childcare center for this interview because I think that this may be something that I actually want to do for my career when I graduate from college. I interviewed the director at this childcare center and gained knowledge of what it would be like to be the director of a childcare center or even working as part of the staff at a center.…
Cultural competence is to honour and respect the different cultures within our society. It is to understand and acknowledge the differences of the families within our centre and community.…
Assessing one’s position on the cultural competence continuum is a task of ironic proportions. Because it is a fluid process, it is difficult to precisely place one’s self on a continuum that is not quite linear. It seems that as soon as one feels that they are becoming competent and embodying the characteristics of one who completely respects and accepts another culture, there is yet another dimension of this competence that requires assessment and adaptation. For the time being and that being said, I would probably feel most confident by placing myself on the cultural pre-competence (but closely approaching competence) level of awareness.…
Though Purnell’s focus was for health care, it can be adopted to any sector as a framework for cultural competence. Therefore, we are using it to apply to the education sector; specifically, in high school and postsecondary settings. The primary lens of this model was for medical/healthcare model of cultural competence. Therefore, this model is adapted for the social services sector as a social model of cultural competence. The undergirding of this model is the interrelating of the characteristics of culture to be considered in developing a more equitable and inclusive environment (Purnell, 2008). Purnell focus is on the development of a more culturally inclusive model that is sensitive to all cultures to promote and facilitate a more sensitive…
According to the National Institute of Health, “cultural competency is often described as the combination of a body of knowledge, a body of belief and a body of behavior”. Cultural competency affects the outcomes of healthcare and the delivery of healthcare, by helping providers to deliver care that is respectful to a persons beliefs, values and practices. Cultural competency also helps healthcare providers deliver care that caters to the linguistic needs of diverse cultures. Cultural competency is being able to effectively communicate with another culture emotionally, physically and linguistically.…
Who am I?Even though I had reason enough to ask myself this question during my adolescence years, I only recall reflecting and identifying personal characteristic personality traits intensely in the recent years.I am about three neighborhoods away from where I used to live 17 years ago.It is the fourth month now, that I would have had the opportunity to pass by the house I used to live in with my parents, my sister, my dog, Swami, Prema and their three children of which I only remember Sangitas name. I have not even come close enough to the neighborhood to see the flower shop next to the big sign where it was written "West End".The first days after my arrival in Delhi I was struggling with sleepless nights yet fully enjoying the extreme heatwave of India´s July month. In many nostalgic moments I had longed for such…
The inability to construe cultural difference. Indicated by benign stereotyping (wellmeant but ignorant or naive observations) and superficial statements of tolerance. May sometimes be accompanied by attribution of deficiency in intelligence or personality to culturally deviant behavior. Tendency to dehumanize outsiders. 1. Denial/Isolation: Isolation in homogeneous groups fails to generate either the opportunity or the motivation to construct relevant categories for noticing and interpreting cultural difference. 2. Denial/Separation: Intentional separation from cultural difference protects world view from change by creating the conditions of isolation. Some awareness of cultural difference may yield undifferentiated broad categories, such as "foreigner" or "Asian" or "Black." Cognitive Structure: • No categories ("what difference?") or only broad categories for different cultures. Affective Quality: • Benign on the surface ("live and let live"), but potentially genocidal when pressed into cross-cultural contact. Behavioral Emphasis: • Aggressive ignorance ("I don't need to know"), stress on the familiar. Exercise of Power: • Possibility of exploitation. At this stage, learners say: • "Live and let live, that's what I say." • "All big cities are the same-lots of buildings, too many cars, McDonalds." • "What I really need to know about is art and music." • "As long as we all speak the same language, there's no problem." • "The main concerns I have involve knowing how to get around and ordering in restaurants." • "With my experience, I can be successful in any culture without any special effort." • "I never experience culture shock." • "All I need to know about is politics and history-I can figure out the rest of it as I go along."…
Creating an inclusive culture in the pre-school is essential for the wellbeing of all who are visiting, working or using the setting to feel welcome and at ease. The setting must be able to adapt and meet the needs of all children to ensure inclusion, to meet our legal duties to actively promote equality so that all children have equal access to our service. “Providers have a responsibility to ensure positive attitudes to diversity and difference – not only so that every child is included and not disadvantaged, but also so that they learn from the earliest age to value diversity in others and grow up making a positive contribution to society” (Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework Section 1.14 DCSF May 2008).…
The learning of culture, like the learning of language, begins with a child’s first experiences with the family from which he is born, the community to which he belongs, and the environment in which he lives. By the time children begin their formal education at the age of five or six, they have already internalized many of the basic values and beliefs of their native…