Cultural Differences COM/360 November 12‚ 2012 The movie Crash (2004) is about a handful of disparate people’s lives intertwined as they deal with the tense race relations that belie life in the city of Los Angelos over a thirty-six hour period. All the players involved in the movie are: a Caucasian district attorney‚ his Caucasian wife who believes her stereotypical views are justified‚ therefore they’re not racist; two black carjackers that use their race to their advantage; two Caucasian
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CULTURAL ATTITUDE TOWARD AND PRESUMPTIONS ABOUT WHETHER A PERSON CAN OWN WORDS AND KNOWLEDGE…. Culture is the believe‚ habit and opinion of a group of people‚ society‚ tribe or nation about life generally and the way we live it. Therefore cultural attitude will be individual acceptance and undertaking of these believes habits and opinion of the people. The cultural attitude toward whether a person can own word and knowledge will depend upon the current believes of the individual. Take my family
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What’s going to stay with me is asking people question to get to know them because you get to know what they are into or who they are. It’s important to to know different cultural traditions not just our own because if you know other culture you would be able to understand certain things and situation in their perspective. The thing that surprised me while communicating with our partner was that we didn’t know each other and
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Learner Variables Learning Styles and Strategies Learning Styles An individual’s general approach to learning; a general predisposititon‚ not fixed‚ but a dominant way of negotiating reality predisposition-- cognitive‚ affective‚ physical personality styles: self-esteem‚ inhibition‚ emphaty‚ risk taking‚ anxiety‚ ambiguity tolerance‚ impulsivity‚ etc. cognitive styles (VAKOG) : the way we learn things‚ the way we attack problems:
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that the form and content of student assessment strongly influence students’ attitudes to study and quality of learning (Ramsden‚ 1997; Shepard‚ 2000). For most students‚ assessment requirements literally define the curriculum. Current research suggests it is assessment used in the right way‚ as part of teaching to support and enhance learning that has the most significant impact on learning (Elwood and Klenowski‚ 2002). James and his colleagues (2002) argue that carefully designed assessment is therefore
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involves abstractions. (Cameron‚ 2002) When it comes to the educational reflections of his theory‚ Piaget sees the child as “continually interacting with the world around him/her solving problems that are presented by the environment” and learning occurs through taking action to solve the problems. Moreover‚ the knowledge that results from these actions is not imitated or from birth‚ but “actively constructed” by the child. In this way thought is seen as deriving from action; action is internalized
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the application of Observational Learning on daily Research Abstract This research aims to discuss the application of observational learning on daily life. In research‚ it will be divided into five parts. The first part is “The definition of Observational Learning”‚ the second part is “Four processes of observational learning”‚ the third part is “The role of reinforcement in observational learning”‚ the forth part is “The application of observational learning”‚ and the final part is conclusion
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Overview of Learning Theories Students are all individuals from different backgrounds and stature‚ as such all learn in different ways. Much study and research has been carried out by many philosophers‚ psychologists and great minds in the area of education of animals and humans from children to adults and indeed how they learn. Their findings‚ and time itself‚ has given us varied techniques to pass on knowledge and awareness to others. No learning style is the one that works for all as they all
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I am intrigued with the idea of reframing a Mexican-American teen’s rebellion as “confusion of whether she is growing up”. The text discusses how rates of cultural assimilation differ and offers a way to unite the family suffering from differences in needs and understanding of one another. Having a quincinera is an astute idea to celebrate a young female’s progression into adulthood as this will reduce stress on the parental side as well as give the adolescent a sense of pride and belonging in
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What is Cultural Literacy Can it Truly Exist ? Cultural Literacy. What is it? How can one define it? Is it knowing the answers to questions such as: who are Joseph Stalin and Frederick Douglass? Who fought in WWI? What was the Louisiana purchase? What is the second commandment? Name an amendment to the constitution? Try this on for size‚ who is the host of Total Request Live on MTV? Who is J. Lo engaged to? Cultural literacy is knowledge of what one should know in order to be a functional member
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